Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde.

Judge Orders FDA to Make Morning-After Pill Available to All Ages

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:34:00 -0400

Judge Orders FDA to Make Morning-After Pill Available to All Ages:

the fact of the matter is, there’s no rule that says you have to be 16 to have sex. thousands of kids are sexually active before they turn 16 and if anyone needs access to the morning-after pill…it’s a 14 year old. we can’t force them to make smart and safe decisions, but we can help offer them a way to avoid life-changing repercussions.

Story of my life! explore-blog: Ah, yes: Flowcharting the book...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:43:49 -0400

Story of my life!

explore-blog:

Ah, yes: Flowcharting the book lover’s dilemma. Yes? Yes.

stay - rihanna ft mikky ekko

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:25:32 -0400

stay - rihanna ft mikky ekko

cavetocanvas: Takashi Murakami, 727-272 The Emergence of God At...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:23:37 -0400

cavetocanvas:

Takashi Murakami, 727-272 The Emergence of God At The Reversal Of Fate (with detail), 2007

For Steubenville, OH

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:40:00 -0400

I have spent the last three hours sitting at my desk, attempting to work on a poem with the working title, “For Jane Doe, Steubenville, OH”. So far, this is what I have:

The rain can only fall where the branches cannot block it

and the flowers will only bloom if there’s no one there

to step on their beds.

I can’t get any further because I’m still way too pissed off to try to put this into digestible pieces. I don’t want this to be digestible for anyone, so maybe the poem needs to take a different direction. But, my necessary revisions aren’t the point right now. The point is Jane Doe.

Jane Doe. She’s nameless, nameless in a feeble attempt to provide her with some kind of privacy because she is a minor and because she is a victim. I am still trying to reconcile this, because anyone who has ever received any kind of unwanted sexual attention knows that your privacy is completely out the window the minute things become uncomfortable. I understand her namelessness, but I struggle with it because I wonder how much it helps her now.

It makes me sick to hear what wonderful athletes these boys were, it makes me want to cry when someone mentions that they were ‘good students’ with ‘bright futures,’ it makes me nauseous to think that anyone is worried about what those two boys are going to do with their lives.

Their lives aren’t ‘over,’ as one cried out in the courtroom after their sentences were read. Richmond will likely be out of the juvenile system next year for good behavior, and Mays is likely to follow after two years. Neither will be incarcerated past 21. Their lives aren’t over. In fact, they’ll be let out in just enough time to live them, whereas if they were tried as adults, their lives really would be ‘over.’ Sure, they’ll be on the sex offenders list, but will it actually stop them for doing whatever they want to? Probably not.

But let’s get back to Jane Doe, whose life is actually over. Or maybe not. Maybe for the next couple of years she can try to heal, and deal with the horrible thing that happened to her. Maybe she can try to cope with the fact that her friends made her feel as though she should be ashamed for being a slut. Or maybe she’ll be reaching a break through when Richmond and Mays appear walking down the street, free.

There should be no sympathy for these boys, or for the culture who taught them their behavior was even remotely close to appropriate. There should be no sympathy for the kids who watched Jane Doe being carried and photographed naked. There should be no sympathy for the students who refused to talk to the police. There should be no sympathy for two boys who raped a girl who was completely incoherent, at an age when they certainly knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that what they were doing was wrong.

Jane Doe’s future has been ruined. Richmond and Mays will be forced to contemplate their actions, but they have also been given an opportunity to change, become better people and to really and truly think about what is right and what is wrong. Is this justice? Did we help Jane Doe?

They deserved what they got, they deserved more and despite this rant, I’m still sick and reeling from the disgrace I feel for this misogynistic country, its rape culture (which shouldn’t even be a coined phrase), and the media.

Photo

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:06:54 -0400

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:26:57 -0400

The Overnight Walk

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:29:06 -0400

The Overnight Walk:

Please, please, please help me reach my goal of raising $1000 so that I can walk in The Overnight Walk, for suicide awareness, support and prevention.

This January, my very best friend Amanda lost her older brother to suicide. These last few months have been incredibly difficult for family and friends alike, but I know that we have all found peace though the idea of The Overnight Walk.

A 16-18 mile walk from dusk until dawn, The Overnight Walk is an opportunity for families and friends of those who have passed, people who have considered suicide or suffer from depression, and supports of mental health education alike can get together to prove that none of us are alone. All of the proceeds go to helping families who are survivors of suicide, educating communities about depression and other forms of mental illness, and most importantly, programs which aim to prevent the loss of loved ones to suicide.

nevver: Beware he is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:00:30 -0400

nevver:

Beware

he is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.

milo greene - 1957

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:33:41 -0400

milo greene - 1957

The Conditional

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:47:57 -0400

Say tomorrow doesn’t come.

Say the moon becomes an icy pit.

Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified.

Say the sun’s a foul black tire fire.

Say the owl’s eyes are pinpricks.

Say the raccoon’s a hot tar stain.

Say the shirt’s plastic ditch-litter.

Say the kitchen’s a cow’s corpse.

Say we never get to see it: bright

future, stuck like a bum star, never

coming close, never dazzling.

Say we never meet her. Never him.

Say we spend our last moments staring

at each other, hands knotted together,

clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.

Say, It doesn’t matter. Say, That would be

enough. Say you’d still want this: us alive,

right here, feeling lucky.

-Ada Limon

explore-blog: Beautiful patent drawing for R. J. Spalding’s...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:52:48 -0400

explore-blog:

Beautiful patent drawing for R. J. Spalding’s Flying Machine, 1889. Complement with the illustrated history of human flight and 100 diagrams that changed the world.

papal misgivings

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:24:32 -0400

i find it very difficult to be excited about the election of a new pope, despite the bells that are ringing all around my office, and the excited chatter from all of the people who actually care.

but i find it difficult to be excited because if they REALLY cared, they’d be outraged by the fact that BOTH of the forerunners had serious black marks on their names due to sexual harassment and their willingness to brush it under the rug.

what is so honorable about all of this?

"Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say."

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:16:54 -0400

“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”

- Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith (via simply-quotes)

"We are allowed to do that, are we not? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?"

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:07:53 -0400

““We are allowed to do that, are we not? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?””

- Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child (via ko-morebi)

housingworksbookstore: livefromthenypl: Participate and let...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:59:58 -0500

housingworksbookstore:

livefromthenypl:

Participate and let your tweets be heard! Be a part of NYPL’s first National Poetry Contest. Tweet three 140 character poems to @nypl. One of the three poems must be about libraries, books, reading, or New York City.

Register today and let your creativity fly! Submission period is March 1 -10

See Official Rules for details

This is super cool. Working on my bookstore haikus now.

don’t leave me tongue tied

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:59:38 -0500

don’t leave me tongue tied

"I do believe in inspiration. Inspiration and meaning-making. Often they are bed partners. Human..."

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:22:17 -0500

“I do believe in inspiration. Inspiration and meaning-making. Often they are bed partners. Human beings are meaning-making creatures. We cannot help it. We cannot stop doing it. So that meaning was made for me from seeing this person wearing a particular shirt is no great gift from the gods but it is still wildly moving to me and an important part of inspiration.”

- Matthew Dickman

i need this!

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:32:21 -0500

i need this!

lost-inmyownmind: just-laff: this is actually so powerful wtf...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:17:58 -0500

lost-inmyownmind:

just-laff:

this is actually so powerful wtf Shel Silverstein

i love shel so much