February 2012
25 posts
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“Given the right amount of Orientalist historical cherry picking, “Persianness”...”
– Beyond Mullahs and Persian Party People - The Invisibility of Being Iranian on TV by Roozbeh Shirazi (via destination-illiyyin)
Reblog if you think mohandasgandhi should be an...
mohandasgandhi:
What is going on?
miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
January 2012
74 posts
“It is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.”
– Alice Munro (via cocknbull)
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Suspect runs away and get catched by Flack
Flack: WHY do they always run?
Danny: Dunno, man. Maybe they're brain-damaged!
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“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They...”
– Leo F. Buscaglia (via thelatebloom)
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a bright wall in a dark room.: Black Narcissus... →
brightwalldarkroom:
WHY NOT?
by Evan Bryson
In another life, I would have joined a monastery. Instead I’m saddled with 70K in student loan debt and follow a masturbatory regime that seems lately to have crossed the high curve of its parabola, to borrow a phrase from John McPhee. No one bothered to explain to me the nature of dialectical materialism until after I’d signed the promissory...
“Many People Decide They Want To Be Millionaires When Really They Want The...”
