January 2012
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on years.
I’ve never been one for resolutions, for wish lists or already failed attempts. But this year found me grabbing for your hands, meeting your gaze and saying “I promise” more times than I can count. In between last year’s new year’s kiss and this one’s cross-time-zone phone call, I’ve been to six countries and lived in two. I’ve pitched five tents,...
December 2011
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violent femme: "are you in love?" →
asked anon in my ask box.
hi. am i in love? am i in love.
the thing is, i believe in a thousand different types of love. i fall in love with strangers all the time. not romantically, but i’m easily fascinated. and i am in awe of a lot of people. but that doesn’t necessarily mean that i was in love with them.
i have been dating my boyfriend right now for two years. we’ve never taken a break,...
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“‘your friend’ is suddenly the codename for the woman I’m in love with enough to...”
– http://www.bklynboihood.com/blog/2011/12/2/tis-the-season.html (via bklynboihood)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Iron & Wine (27)
Beyoncé (26)
Childish Gambino (12)
Rihanna (8)
Sufjan Stevens (4)
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Homeless for the Holidays: Portraits of New York... →
“Coming out for these kids was not primarily experienced as liberating and freeing, nor was it experienced as finding acceptance in the broader LGBT community. For these kids, coming out meant being driven from their homes, denied love, denied all economic support, made to suffer utter destitution. And, shamefully, despite the numbers of homeless LGBT youth across the nation reaching...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
The Temper Trap (133)
Stars (56)
Iron & Wine (43)
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (36)
The House You Grew Up In (34)
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NO79: 1000 WORDS: Dupont Circle →
what a day to be a celesbian.
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poorlywrittenhistory:
“In love you have loosened yourself like sea water; I can scarcely measure the...”
– Pablo Neruda (via theyearwas)
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II.
Love, how many roads to reach a kiss, what wandering solitude until your company! The lonely trains go on rolling with the rain. In Taltal, spring has not dawned yet.
But you and I, my love, are together together from our clothes to our roots, together through fall, through water, through hips until it is only you, only me together.
To think it took so many stones carried in the river, to the...
One teachers approach to preventing gender... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“Allie,” she said, “Ms. Melissa is on the phone. She would like to know if you want her to correct your classmates when they say you are a boy, or if you would rather that she just doesn’t say anything.”
Allie was shy on the phone. “Um …
tell them that I am a girl,” she whispered.
