Here’s an exclusive preview of “Hurts So Good / I Like It Rough”, a Lady Gaga & John Cougar Mellancamp mashup from Haviland Stillwell’s upcoming album, How I Role.
I’m excited for the fall because of books! You should be too! THE NOVEL OF THE CENTURY! A lesbian “poet’s novel”! “Gender Outlaws” 2.0! Amy AND David Sedaris! Also, so much more!
Would you consider doing an AS article on recommended podcasts? I feel like this would be interesting, and I love finding new things through the team recommendations. Plus, I need new podcasts to listen to, but there are just so many out there.
i might just recommend ‘this american life’ ~10-12x , maybe i have an intern for that
i identify as bisexual and had sex for the first time the other night with a girl i had just met. it was meh for me, but she won’t stop texting (and she’s also meh to talk to; strike two). i don’t think i can avoid her indefinitely…. halp?
i think if you just keep getting more unreliable and worse at communicating with her, eventually she’ll start sending these sort of passive aggressive semi-funny texts about smoke signals and what she has to do to track you down and bada bing bada boom before you know it she’s sick of you not respecting her and will eventually go away. is that rude? idk. i’m just being practical.
i feel so alone. i hate college i keep thinking i made the wrong choice. i want to hug someone!
i ALSO want to hug someone!
you probably did not make the wrong choice. there’s a chance you did, but you can’t know yet, so you might as well just give it all you’ve got.
sometimes i’m like, is this v-neck too low? do i look slutty?
but i’m already at the library
so i just stand up straight so you can see as much boob as possible
and debate the sluttiness
at a later time.
Literature’s a democratizing force. Its power makes so much of the world accessible to anyone who can read, equally, without regard to anything about “who we are” or where we came from or any of that. If you want to participate in the world of letters, all that matters is your ability to make yourself intelligible, when you write, and to apprehend what is being said, when you read.
So many people are susceptible to that, whenever someone questions something they said or did, people automatically take it as a referendum on, “am I a good person or not?” and the response is, “how dare you question me, I’m a good person!” And it’s not about whether you’re a good person; prejudice and privilege and the blind spots they create, these are things good people are going to struggle with all their lives. We’re all human beings, we’re all going to be prone to having blind spots and preconceived notions – that’s the nature of being human, we’re imperfect. This attitude that, “I’m a good person, therefore I shouldn’t be questioned on things” is kind of like, “my bathroom is clean, so I don’t need to clean my bathroom.” We’re always going to gravitate toward having these flaws and misconceptions, and it’s impossible for us to always be aware of how our privilege is affecting our worldview and our actions. The key to being a “good person” is to constantly challenge yourself and be open to being challenged, and to respond to criticism with humility.
Can you argue right? We have twelve rules that say you can. No biting!
The Pentagon has agreed to meet with a group of partners of gay servicemembers and discuss the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal in addition to listening to the opinions of straight soldiers’ partners. One…
We’re watching the Emmys because of peer pressure. Everyone else is doing it.
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
Vita Sackville-West (via saturday22)
“I’m just a stupid cat on a ledge! You should find someone better, I guess. You should just leave me here! I’m pointless! Look at me – I’m not even upright!” via 12 Rules of Lesbian Fight Club: How to Properly Argue with Your Girlfriend
