February 2012
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radicalnotions asked: Chapbooks for what?!
peanut butter chapbook collating time
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Keep rolling under the stars and eventually you’ll get there, where the wastelands meet the badlands and everything in between – such a place has not a single name, but is only signified by the aching of your aging joints and the way your mouth tastes after rain, like you were a part of everything you ever knew in that yours was the vessel that beheld the knowing. Maybe somewhere along the way you...
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Unpacking the Invisible Backpack →
“Many, perhaps most, of our white students in the US think that racism doesn’t affect them because they are not people of color; they do not see ‘whiteness’ as a racial identity. In addition, since race and sex are not the only advantaging systems at work, we need similarly to examine the daily experience of having age advantage, or ethnic advantage, or physical ability, or...
January 2012
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bell hooks - Feminism Is For Everybody (free... →
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Winter sun comes over the fence in the backyard and strikes the bare lilac bush. In a few months that bush will turn green again, and then white-purple with stalks of flowers longer than my arm. The whole house will smell of it – strong and fragrant, rich enough to stick to upturned palms and the backs of necks for days. Five feet beyond the fence sits a house full of neighbors I’ve never met –...
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The room grows dark and then light again – clouds overhead that I cannot see, only the passing proof of their presence in what they hide, that is, the sunlight they keep welled behind their backs – no such thing as winter warmth, just light reflected through the ice crystals of the air and that is when we fool ourselves into thinking our chapped and numb fingers are just playing tricks on us; fool...
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Sometimes I give life advice to my dog. And then I’m like, “What am I doing you’re a dog.”
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FRIDAY 500 JANUARY 13, 2012
I am nervous to be here because I am young. These are my in-between times – the spot between the ribs. Today my father told me he was thinking of putting the house on the market. This statement worried me. I grew up in this house (I am noticing the presence of others makes me more nervous – can they hear what I am writing?). If my parents moved I do not know...
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I love getting on the Bennington College tag and seeing my tattoo errywhere.
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January 5, 2012
President Barack Hussein Obama II
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Mr. President,
I am writing this letter in hopes that it will reach your hands. I ask that you read each word carefully and deliberately. What I have to say is important.
In August, 2008, I was fifteen years old. I had just begun my sophomore year of high school and I was enthralled...
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1.4.12
wake up earlier than you have all week read the paper drink microwaved coffee see the date on the paper think whoa this is the future floss because you have a dentist appointment in twenty minutes and maybe flossing now will trick the dentist into thinking you’ve been flossing all along but probably not teeth prodded and poked txt frm mm want to get lunch downtown txt t mm yes mom...
December 2011
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“Whereas, free and fair elections are essential to American democracy and...”
– Anti-corporate personhood resolution proposed by Vermont state senator Virginia Lyons
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Goal for the year decided: work at McSweeney’s for my sophomore year Field Work Term.
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Sometimes I go on etsy and look at all the things I wish I could buy. Like backpacks. Really nice leather backpacks with Mexican embroidery all over. But I already have a pretty nice backpack that I’ve had since forever and people tell me they like my backpack and that makes me like my backpack more, and also makes me feel guilty for looking at nice backpacks online. Like it’s cheating or...
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Deleting Myself: A Brief Manifesto
This is the beginning of something.
My influence stems from the central force of my life. I must recognize and nurture my roots. Now is the time for the ascension of personal responsibility. I am a global citizen, and realizing such has forced me to recognize my place in the grand mechanism of the contemporary world. How can I expect the world to be creative if I, as an individual, do not create?...