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“Here in the United States, where there is a reported rape every 6.2 minutes, and one in five women will be raped in her lifetime, the rape and gruesome murder of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi on December 16th was treated as an exceptional incident. The story of the alleged rape of an unconscious teenager by members of the Steubenville High School football team was still unfolding, and gang rapes aren’t that unusual here either. Take your pick: some of the 20 men who gang-raped an 11-year-old in Cleveland, Texas, were sentenced in November, while the instigator of the gang rape of a 16-year-old in Richmond, California, was sentenced in October, and four men who gang-raped a 15-year-old near New Orleans were sentenced in April, though the six men who gang-raped a 14-year-old in Chicago last fall are still at large. Not that I actually went out looking for incidents: they’re everywhere in the news, though no one adds them up and indicates that there might actually be a pattern.” -
Animals knew things, possessed their forms of wisdom. They were beings in a world of countless beings. Taking their lives was a meaningful act, to be prayed for beforehand and atoned for afterward, suggesting that beasts were allowed some kind of right. We used our power over them constantly and violently, but stopped short of telling ourselves that creatures of alien biology could not be sentient or that they were incapable of true suffering and pleasure. Needing their bodies, we killed them in spite of those things.
—John Jeremiah Sullivan, “One of Us.” From our Spring 2013 issue, ANIMALS.
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Lorenzo Quinn, Esto no es un juego (2011).
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I shouldn’t say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won’t find out.
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Best of Mike Birbiglia(via bestnatesmithever)
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I THINK A LOT ABOUT LETTING HEMINGWAY DOWN BY WRITING BADLY
Which is silly. My life is my life. Those are his hills, his typewriter, and that’s his table. I have my own. I have my own clouds and my own drink and I have my own shooting vest (no mustache). But still, I think a lot about letting him down—like he’s a parent I have to impress, or even a friend. I know how dumb that sounds but sometimes we’re dumb.
Fuck it.
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Why do this to the brain?!?
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Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": What Empathy Is I was a visiting professor at the University of Alabama last week, teaching a group of students about how to write difference into our fiction. I thought about how we teach many things in the creative writing workshop—how to read and think like a writer, how to bring discipline to the wilder of…
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“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.” -
Occupi
Hey remember when #Occupy was a thing? No? Oh, well happy Pi Day.
