“You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you.”
– Hanif Kureishi (via hanthelion)

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“From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. We all think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, and we all (whether we admit it or not) think we’re heroes for just getting through our day.
So it’s very frustrating, and I mean frustrating to the point of violence, when we don’t get what we’re owed. A contract has been broken. These women, by exercising their own choices, are denying it to us. It’s why every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.”
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5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained To Hate Women- Cracked.com

A really great article. Thank you to hhahaahyea for sharing. 

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litvideos:

Taylor Mali performs the poem “What Teachers Make.”

shining-crazydiamond:

I can not stop watching spoken word poetry videos on youtube. It’s so beautiful.

This made my cry a bit.

sobscure:

Mike Rosen “When God Happens” (by UrbanaPoetrySlam)

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space-legs:

buttonpoetry:

Janani - “trans/national” (CUPSI 2013)

“My testosterone is now made by Israel’s largest company. There is colonization running through my bloodstream.”

Janani, of Stanford University, performing during semifinals at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.

TEARS

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