November 2010
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Silence is so accurate.
– Mark Rothko (via rerylikes)
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All the good ghosts
A friend from Auckland came over to Melbourne today. It must be summer. The past always comes to visit before the beginning of summer.
Vaibhav, who has actually been living in Adelaide for almost as long as I’ve been living in Melbourne, looks exactly the same. Exactly. We wind our way through the laneways and smells of lunchtime in the city to a tea place in Block Arcade, which has...
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There should be a course in first grade on love.
– Andy Warhol (via kari-shma)
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One long year
“This is Melissa, a medical student,” Jack says to the patients at the shared lodging houses.
I’m standing behind him, hands cradling my elbows, trying to make sense of the place. He’d warned me it was a strange sort of environment and he was right. It looked like a giant boarding house or hostel, or the halls at university but smelt of stale smoke and sweat.
The...
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
– Jim Morrison (via kari-shma)
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'Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close', by Safran...
12 September 2003
Dear Oscar,
I am writing this to you from the airport.
I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
I am an old woman now, but once I was a girl. It’s true. I was a girl like you are a boy. One of...
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day,...
– Stephen Vincent Ben (via kari-shma)
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Does she mean with Zuckerberg...!?
Tracy: Hey, you know Mark Zuckerberg's girlfriend is Chinese?
Melissa: Nope.
Tracy: You're prettier than her.
Melissa: Er...thanks, I guess...
Tracy: Go Melissa, you still have a chance!
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The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.
– Ernest Hemingway (via kari-shma)
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October 2010
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We must leave evidence. Evidence that we were here; that we existed; that we...
– Mia Mingus
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En route, in motion: leaving Atlanta (by Mia...
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“Mia and Stacey are two queer disabled diasporic Korean women of color in the process moving from the South to the Bay to create home and community with each other.” These are two of the bravest, most inspiring people I’ve come across. What an amazing (and ongoing) story of love and humanity.
Part I:
Dear Stacey,
I am supposed to be in bed, asleep, so that I...