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Good Shit – Modern Day Dirae
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I don't have feelings, I AM feelings. December 17, 2015. The holiday is pretty much directly upon me. This weekend I have Christmas with my family. We are going up tomorrow night. But I don’t feel super merry. In the words of Bilbo Baggins: “I feel thin. Like butter spread over too much bread.”. I think the weight of everything that has happened this year has just hit me all at once. The deaths. Of black women, the burning. Of black churches, the. That have been lost, rape. Or on a street. I’m not ...
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April 2015 – Modern Day Dirae
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I don't have feelings, I AM feelings. Xena The Warrior Puppy and the Tyrrany of Refuse. April 30, 2015. I love my puppy so much. And she gets more and more interesting all the time. And yes, by “interesting” I do mean bizarre. This morning I took her for her walk before Frankie woke up. We walked down the tiny side street that my apartment butts up against. The morning was crisp and cool. She was bouncy and awake. When we got halfway down the street, tragedy struck. Circular: *flutter, bitch*. As Xena wa...
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Adulthood – Modern Day Dirae
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I don't have feelings, I AM feelings. April 27, 2016. April 29, 2016. What’s broken now. what’s breaking. What breaks are the edges. Of my fingers as i bite. And tear at cuticles. I worry my body endlessly. When i cannot see beyond. The soft grey haze of this. First cuticles, then diet,. Then the mobility that brings. My limbs to life. That moves my heart. It takes me four days. To make an edit. That should take moments. My blog lays silent. I spend a Saturday. A voice in my head. But it breaks me. The f...
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May 2014 – Modern Day Dirae
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I don't have feelings, I AM feelings. 911: Issues of Immediacy. May 27, 2014. May 27, 2014. So it’s the day after Memorial Day. Seems like a good time to talk about memorializing things. And, since the 911 Museum. Opened on May 12th and everyone is talking about it, I’m going to talk about it, too. Part shrine, part memorial, part capitalist monument, part retroactive justification. Vulgarity with the noblest intentions. That basically sums up my feelings about the 911 tragedy nearly 13 years after i...
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Birthdays – Modern Day Dirae
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I don't have feelings, I AM feelings. November 17, 2015. Today is Xena’s second birthday! When Frankie and I moved to this apartment, one of the first things that we knew that we wanted was to get a dog. We didn’t even look at an apartment that wouldn’t let us have one. After a month or two of settling in to the apartment and getting used to the neighborhood, we set out on the hunt. We looked around at a bunch of different adoption agencies and finally settled on Pibbles and More Animal Rescue. November ...
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Harassment – Modern Day Dirae
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I don't have feelings, I AM feelings. December 2, 2015. December 2, 2015. If I haven’t made this clear before, harassment is a thing that I care pretty deeply about. I care about it because myself and other femme folks that I care deeply about face harassment on a daily basis simply for the act of being outside. Or being on the internet. Basically, we are punished on the regular for daring to enter areas where other people might have contact with us. 1 Don’t belittle our concerns. No one will be spared.
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Art – Modern Day Dirae
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I don't have feelings, I AM feelings. Art Lesson: The Male Gaze. October 9, 2015. October 9, 2015. I’m gonna use my degrees in this blog! I’m excited. Ok. Here we go. One of the things that I learned about in my art history classes was the male gaze. The term was coined by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey and has been talked about by all sorts of smart people. Susanna Danuta Walters defines the male gaze as having three distinct “ looks. In this particular work, the absence of the face and the inabili...
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Domestic Violence – Modern Day Dirae
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I don't have feelings, I AM feelings. Boys Will be Boys: Masculinity and “Womens Issues”. May 20, 2014. May 20, 2014. I recently watched a brilliant TED talk by Jackson Katz on violence against women and how it’s a men’s issue. Be an MVP. Hells yea. Katz is a co-founder of a group called Mentors in Violence Prevention. W]hen we hear the word “race,”. A lot of people think that means African-American,. Latino, Asian-American, Native American,. South Asian, Pacific Islander…. And reproduce themselves….
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These Shocking Photos Show The Scars You Can’t Normally See. And They’re Horrifying. | Awkward Teen Learns to Blog
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Excuse me while I try to take part in teen angst. Awkward Teen Learns to Blog. These Shocking Photos Show The Scars You Can’t Normally See. And They’re Horrifying. This is more powerful than I thought. Wow. Who has himself suffered from the worst kind of verbal abuse, created a series of photos to illustrate their incredibly harmful effect. These images, created for the. Weapon of Choice Project. The photos below feature victims and strong terms of emotional, sexual and verbal abuse. You are commenting u...
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