Lara Jensen

where's that tweet about how unfortunately it isn't illegal for people to have bad taste and you can't punish them for it

Depression is horrible, but it added a richness and depth to the person I am today, and I appreciate the value of those changes. But if that happy child had gotten a chance to grow up without depression, I think he would have been changed in different ways, and under the tutelage of gentler teachers, would have become no less worthwhile and interes... See more

“An active and sensate democracy requires that we learn how to read well, not just texts but images and sounds, to translate across languages, across media, ways of performing, listening, acting, making art and theory.”

— Judith Butler, “McGill University commencement address”, 2013

The night was so very still that one should have been able to hear the whisper of roses in blossom―the laughter of daisies―the piping of grasses―many sweet sounds, all tangled up together

- Lucy Maud Montgomery