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KAZ BREKKER & INEJ GHAFA — S1E07 “The Unsea”

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(shaking my 14-year-old self) I was so mean to you but I love you, I love you, love you

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Again and again!

Tumblr is like home, no matter how far I wander I always come back here. :)

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Tumblr is like home, no matter how far I wander I always come back here. :)

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My feet and heart wanted to cling to that ground. The farm where I used to listen to cows, cuckoos and cousins yelling while I play in the dirt or tried to get those guavas from trees. The home where I spend most afternoons with books or trying to sneak out to play. The school where I studied and also taught at the end. I wonder on this quiet evening; how can someone live all these different lifestyles in such a short time? I wonder how beautiful those sunsets were with the smell of manure, grass and fresh guavas. How wonderful this sunset is with grass, swans and a book!

-Rhythm, One for the reminiscence.

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?

— Virginia Woolf, Selected Essays

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“take me to the book that you wish you could reread for the first time”

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Here’s some very specific Desi playlists for some very specific moods:

1. Jo mangi thi us dua se guftagu ho gayi  a mix of semi - classical / classical music

2. Yearning par is baar Hindi mein 

3. Rain and Old Hindi songs on the radio 

4. I’m so hot but in Desi  confidence boost when you are getting ready

5. 2000s Bollywood childhood comfort songs

6. Soft Hindi  for a soft romantic mood

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Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.

Nizar Qabbani

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video essays i’ve loved a lot recently!

the history of dieting is crazier than you think - a history of diet culture, its phases, faces, and diet culture media by mina le

When Hollywood Speaks Chinese, I Cringe - short essay about the cringey racist way Chinese language is portrayed in Hollywood

Good LGBT Representation is Boring (and why that’s a problem) - essay that dives into the double edge sword of “unproblematic” lgbt rep

The Decline of History Channel - a history of the history channel and how it lost almost all credibility. 

The Black Right Wing - fascinating essay on Black Americans who support Donald Trump, right wing politics and why that is. 

Can We Kill the Final Girl Trope Already? - one of my favourite essays ever about the first girl who dies in horror films.

Exploring The “Gender Critical” Radicalization Pipeline - tw: major transphobia, an essay about how TERF ideology online radicalises people to the right

A Buffet of Black Food History - do not watch this on an empty stomach! essay about the history of Black American food, culture and the success of Black cooks/chefs

No, Superhero Movies are NOT Like Westerns - excellent breakdown of all the reasons why the current proliferation of superhero films is not comparable culturally, economically or artistically to Westerns.

Maybe you should stay in the closet?…Coming Out re-examined - personal vlog/video essay about the history of “coming out” as lgbt and the culture around doing so has changed

The Matrix Resurrections Is Absolutely Beautiful - an analysis/review of the beautifully executed trans-ness of latest matrix films

make more characters bi, you cowards: why (not) romance? - analysis on the current state of bisexual representation in pop culture 

Heterofatalism: WHY straight women aren’t okay. - absolutely wild essay on the complex cultural attitudes that encourages straight women to hate themselves for loving men

The Pandemic Onscreen - How Film & TV Do Covid - analysis of the different ways fictional media is acknowledging the pandemic

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I was forwarding these to a friend and figured it’d be worth sharing them all here too so enjoy some free books and essays and things in no particular order:

Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects

Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde

Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer

Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price

Learn Socialism Resources

Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson

Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar

Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Sinister Wisdom Archives

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong

How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ

Women’s Voices Now

The Life of Tove Jansson

Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo

‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow

OUTWEEK Archives

AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins

Devotions - Mary Oliver

Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Sula - Toni Morrison

Not Vanishing - Chrystos

The Fever - Wallace Shawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan

AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario

In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit

Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker

Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana

Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove

Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds

The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf

Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Bartleby

Guggenheim Books

We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Petersen

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October will be filled with love.

October will be filled with positivity.

October will be filled with kindness.

October will be filled with happiness.

October will be filled with progress.

October will be filled with blessings.

October will be filled with freedom.

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“people are so delusional sometimes that they try so hard to protect the dignity, self image and reputation they don’t even have in the first place.”

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@bindasslive

the thing that motivates me to write this, is that how people sully their life and their dear ones’s life just because of this cliche line that is dramatically used in our life :

what will people say!? or what will people think!? 

what was the first thing, come in your mind when you read this quote I’d like to know. what did you relate it to?

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Sometimes I wish I had the patience, sometimes I wish I had a gun.