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For god’s sake if you aren’t Kashmiri please PLEASE talk about Kashmir. Kashmiris who are in Kashmir are facing vast media blackouts and have no means of digitally protesting this, nor do we have any idea what’s going on on ground. If you want to show solidarity...protest and talk, speak up

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i love love

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And thought goes on raining even without the world, goes on raining even without the rain, goes on raining.

Roberto Juarroz, from Vertical Poetry, trans. W. S. Merwin (North Point Press, 1988)  (via memoryslandscape)

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DOOM PATROL.........2!!!

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MCU Phase 4 lineup was there for us when Endgame wasn’t

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what are your favorite poems?

“light is more important than the lantern, the poem more important than the notebook, and the kiss more important than the lips. my letters to you, are greater and more important than both of us. these are the only documents where people will discover your beauty, and my madness”  لأن الضوء أهم من المصباح | nizar tawqif qabbani

from the book afghanistan, p. 77 - 78, louise dupree

in the desert | stephan crane

“my dear, i would sacrifice a thousand worlds for a single strand of your hair” | جانانه ستا د ويښته تار لپاره زر دنيايي به در قربان كمه | anonymous

“all lovers are forlorn when their beloved is appraised by strangers, and yet, zulekha is happy there is not one who is not transfixed on the moon of kanaan” [reference to joseph whose beauty was unparalleled and the women of egypt sliced their fingers open looking at him, as zulekha desired] سب رقیبوں سے ہوں ناخوش | mirza asadullah khan ghalib

3 statements on poetry | ee cummings

loose woman | sandra cisneros

“even their curses are are dripping sweet. alas! all the prayers i remembered for them i recited them to the doorkeeper” واں گیا بھی میں | mirza asadullah khan ghalib

“oh! my friend, my sole friend. turn your agitation into constellations" های! اي  يار اي  يگانه ترين يار | partaw naderi

“may i write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve” if not, winter | sappho

if they should come for us | fatimah ashghar 

“in the antigarden represented by the desert, the question accompanying the poet like her shadow under the sun is: who am I to be so alone? Who am i if i am not with another? the demand for another is always mute but piercing. all these texts ask for another and all the poets ask for another language, even for a foreign language perhaps, because the essence of poetry is to find strangeness in language.” readings by hélène cixous

lady lazarus | sylvia plath

how to get gun safety out of your mouth | jamaal may

“when a traveler is lost in the black ink smudge of word, the reputation is soiled but the never goes astray” آغاز تو ہوتا ہے انجام نہیں ہوتا | mina kumari 

“your grasses up north are as blue as jade, our mulberries here curve green-threaded branches; and at last you think of returning home, now when my heart is almost broken…. o breeze of the spring, since I dare not know you, why part the silk curtains by my bed?” 春思 | li bai

collection of poetry | li bai

why afghan women risk their lives to write poetry

crush | richard siken

selection of modern urdu poetry 

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John Wick (2014) dir. David Leitch, Chad Stahelski

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But we were lustrous from time to time,

in a garden in a city in a wood melodious with pine.

Blur of speech in the gullet, gale of want in the throat.

— Deborah Landau, from Soft Targets

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Source - Making Out: The Book Of Lesbian Sex And Sexuality ( photography by Laurence Jaugey-Paget)

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Victor “Vic” Stone in Doom Patrol (2019) 

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“How’s my X-13? -- Let’s see, We've got 57,000 pounds force of thrust. Mach 6, like riding a rocket ship between your thighs. She's a beast.”

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pierre boncompain

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All fiction podcast fans share one brain cell and it’s the one that’s responsible for making us all think ‘huh I need to start listening to wtnv again someday’ every once in a while

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Carnival,  Trinidad and Tobago (1975) by Nick Dewolf

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Voguing is the same thing as, like, taking two knives and cutting each other up, but through a dance form. Voguing came from shade, because it was a dance that two people did because they didn’t like each other. Instead of fighting, you would dance it out on the dance floor, and whoever did the better moves was throwing the best shade, basically.

The name was taken from the magazine “Vogue”, because some of the movements of the dance are also the same as the poses inside the magazine. The name is a statement in itself. I mean, you really wouldn’t go to a ball to do the “Mademoiselle”. No way.

Like break dancing, the dance takes from the hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt. It also takes from some forms of gymnastics. They both strive for perfect lines in the body, awkward positions, but it goes one step further. 

It’s starting to make a name for itself, but I want it to be known worldwide, and I wanna be on top of it when it hits.

- Willi Ninja, Paris is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston

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Let’s hear it for Captain America!

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MOONLIGHT (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins