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Living in a female body, a Black body, an aging body, a fat body, a body with mental illness is to awaken daily to a planet that expects a certain set of apologies to already live on our tongues. There is a level of “not enough” or “too much” sewn into these strands of difference.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
... See moreNo one can love you enough. Build a shelter for the flies and the wasps instead. Make houses for the rats and the owls and the bluebirds. Sit for hours in the shade and watch how these tiny citizens move, floating or drifting or scrabbling over stones, swooping or creeping in rings of shadow, rings of light. Make space inside your liquid heart for
The eruption of these issues into the realm of art via the uncritical valorization of care no doubt contributed to my “yuck,” insofar as it risks suggesting that art—a realm to which women have been allowed entrance basically one second ago in human history—should become yet another place where women must grapple with an already-feminized, maternal
... See moreMaggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami (Published 2011)
nytimes.com