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‘I think because I have these dreams so often, you know, like sleeping dreams where I’m dancing and it’s just all going so well. It was like I just wanted to see— it was like the equivalent of well, maybe I can fly, you know, and almost that dangerous. Luckily not fatal, but I did see like, oh no, I can’t, not yet. But I think I could get there. It didn’t seem impossible. I felt vaguely humiliated, but in a way that I felt I could survive.’
‘File an observation until its context is lost, then treat it as a found object’.
‘In all the years I spent dreaming of motherhood, not once did I dream of men.’
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'It’s unfortunate how a hatred of the self leads almost inevitably to a hatred of others. In popular culture, a teen girl is either a nerd or a bitch, but I was very much both. In stories, people are either bullies or bullied, but again, both.'
'And when I walked home beside the railway line in the dark, I knew that I wouldn’t need to write about the old man after all. A heavy thing had been lifted from me by the music, and carried away. I was clean, and empty. The songs had already done the work.' (by HG)
‘I was so disappointed when the show ended, and even though I was doing a little bit better by that point — going outside, seeing friends sometimes — I still badly needed to spend all the other hours of my day not having thoughts.’
I loved Maybe I Don’t Belong Here by David Harewood.
LOOK.
I want to live in a mushroom.
I love Mehlaqa’s Instagram/her cooking and where she goes (and eats) in London.
Hypersentimental portraiture that 'plays on intimate depicted relationships which are coded, like a video-game Easter egg, in a way that is discernible ideally for those who are also members of a specific in-crowd, or who aspire to be.'
Chez Baldwin: a Spotify playlist made from the records James Baldwin left behind in St-Paul-de-Vence after his death in 1987.
THINK.
‘There would be people – maybe even people in this room – who would think that I shouldn’t tell this story. What? A barrister who lost it? And now he’s a judge. What if he loses it again? How can he sit dispassionately and hear cases? Particularly cases involving psychiatric injury? [...] I understand all of that. But for me, that kind of thinking led me to the abyss. Critical, suspicious, unforgiving and cruel. And I would like to think that my suffering has made me more just; not less.’
Degrowth can work — here's how.
There are non-policing solutions to serious youth violence - here they are.
The richest 50 families in the UK have more wealth than the bottom half of the UK population (33.5 million people).
Bias against women is as entrenched as it was a decade ago and gender equality progress has gone into reverse.
Over the past six years in the UK, one in fifteen people changed their sexual identity.
More than one in ten women struggle to bond with their baby.
'Calaya has been kissing her daughter’s head and opening her hands to inspect her tiny fingers.'
Is online shaming about doing good or feeling good?
Jess X