December 2011
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via weelittleactress)
Suck This Lemon!: 1895: Don’ts for women riders →
suckthislemon:
The below list was originally published by the New York World in 1895.
It’s not known whether the author(s) were male or female, but that doesn’t make it any less ridiculous.
For those who get nostalgic for that 1890s golden era of cycling, it’s important to realize it wasn’t golden for…
Boy Charlotte: Where the Breeds Go →
boycharlotte:
where she thought it would be different
this place is mud and boy cum. i arch my back
and show a kind of way
in in the end it’s a going away song. i shrug it off try to care
waters lilies in the fountain on rue royale
the cutlass buried in the bush
beer tabs into a chain i tried to crawl…
“It is a common belief of the Anglo-Saxon that the Indian is essentially lazy....”
– Voltairine de Cleyre, The Mexican Revolution
Reading this makes me fucking depressed, actually. This was written over a hundred years ago, by a white person. It’s like, what the fuck happened. Why weren’t more people inspired by these words and driven to what we now call anti-colonialist action?
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Only 10:21 here. Too early to drink?