Avalon

they shouldn’t have woken me up today

Now that the Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced I can talk about my failure to make the grade back in February, when I was told I had won a prize for fiction. Initially thrilled, then learned the prize was contingent on forms of promotion I was simply unable to provide.

I just got reminded of the time I went to a guys house and this was his bathroom

For the other cretins out there unable to comprehend how theory works: this is a quote from the book P0rnography by Andrea Dworkin, groundbreaking radical feminist and it is describing how patriarchy views pregnant women. It is not a personal opinion, for the love of god.

I cannot relate to anybody who doesn’t feel like an insane person doing a facade of normalcy these days. I walk around looking at strangers and wonder “are you doing a facade as well? Are you going insane the same way I am?” I cannot disguise my disconnect with the “sane” world.

I have an essay about the fact that it is very, very rare for women and/or people of color to get the opportunity to break the kind of stories or pursue the long-term projects that he's been able to. He's very skilled, and he's working in a strata that almost no POC reaches.

After 9/11 I had European friends confused that we would spend time, money and effort digging up the bodies at Ground Zero. What's the point, they said. But it's what Americans (and, ahem, Israelis) do. We love life, we care about our dead, and we don't leave anyone behind.

"'So much of our adult lives are spent marking the traditional milestones you hear about your whole life — engagements, marriages, babies, first homes,' Ms. Bart, 43, said. 'For women who aren’t partnered, there’s often no external occasion prompting this kind of celebration, so creating one yourself is a genuine declaration of self-worth.'" This totally misunderstands why we celebrate the milestones. Having a child or getting married isn't in any way a "declaration of self-worth" nor is that the thing that really needs declaring. Weddings and baby showers and baptisms are celebrations of the formation of the most essential building block of society: the family. And there is a somber element, a seriousness to these things: Our community is called together to recognize that they must see us through the good times and the hard ones. (That's part of why people gravitate toward churches to mark these milestones, even if they're not believers.) Life isn't just a series of aesthetic pursuits. Please believe that it is so much more than that.

as a non american person i have some questions for the pitt fandom - what is medicare/medicaid? - healthcare is really that expensive? that people rather go home untreated like mr diaz - why do many patients chose not to take an ambulance? like the rural patient of 213

was clicking on random stuff on google maps and I think I found something