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A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

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@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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Sweet Springtime Is Here. E.E. Cummings "when faces called flowers float out of the ground" (1955) / Suzaku (dir. Naomi Kawase) 1997 / Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Flowers in the Mountain (Hana no yama) from Ehagaki sekai / Sorrow Is Not My Name, Ross Gay / Pyunggang Botanical Garden (평강식물원) / Easter, Emily Pauline Johnson / Sunflowers, c. 1982. Andrew Wyeth. / E.E. Cummings "when faces called flowers float out of the ground" (1955)

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on april

barbara kingsolver demon copperhead \\ sara teasdale a november night \\ fatima aamer bilal i mother it, the absence of her ii. i was hard to bear from the very start (via @ivynightshade) \\ anne carson the glass essay (via @petaltexturedskies) \\ raymond p. fischer an aged man remembers april \\ cyrus cassells \\ anton chekhov love \\ t.s eliot the waste land \\ michelle o'sullivan the flower and the frozen sea: "bespoke"

kofi

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thinking about why she disappeared again

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*BOOP* ME IF YOU DARE; COLLECTION

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MICHAEL & NATALIE BERZATTO

maurice sendak / the bear (2022- ) / jean anouilh / @starpeace

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NO EXPECTATIONS Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

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posts that make me want to rip my heart out part 5

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The relation between nature and human being: Agnieszka Lepka

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On Love and Community

@princes-heels // ? // @inkskinned // mitski, my love mine all mine//@littlespoonsokka // @boymiffy // @2aminhouston // ? // @theviralwitch // @noodle // @criterioncollectiongirl // @fatsoupy // ? // @mjalti // george saunders, congratulations, by the way// @jb-blunk // @ponchopeligroso // @headspace-hotel // everything, everywhere, all at once(2022) //@cheruib // ? // ? // @tordenvejr

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pt 2; from the same book — "spark" by naoki matayoshi

blackout poetry; first three from "spark" by naoki matayoshi, last from "london" by edward rutherfurd

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I love you, I'll peel you an orange

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Kasie West, Pivot Point / Vera Nazarian, Salt of the Air / A Softer World / In Pursuit of the Uneatable

Illusions, love, and Ladynoir: a webweave. For Chapter 7 of my @mlbigbang fic.

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Hello! Could I perhaps request a web weaving? I really love the poetry of web weaving, and saving my favorite lines away 💜 If I could request… a weaving about love and longing? Longing for love, longing for the person you love, loving a person for all eternity even if you have to wait for the person you love. Thank you so much, and have a good day 💜

? // wishbone, richard siken // i must be living twice, eileen myles // the door, margaret atwood // trista mateer // far from the madding crowd, thomas hardy

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Coming to terms with your mother's humanity

@death-born-aphrodite/@bitterl/Supernatural/8.46am on Instagram/Hailey Noecker/Fatima Aamer Bilal/Winterhats, literally from AO3/Mitski