February 2012
53 posts
Pearls and Cashmere: Dear Ms. Spurzem,Thank you.... →
Dear Ms. Spurzem,
Thank you. Your letter to the Sophian jolted me out of Smith’s dreamy bubble of acceptance, diversity and community. After four years I was beginning to think this was the status quo. Your letter reminds me that the Smith environment is so enriching precisely because it…
“shamelessness => agency”
– i just happened to flip past this very relevant quote in my notebook from the “confessional culture” class i took with ann pellegrini in fall 2010. there are other apropos notes like “if women are made to be seen, what does it mean to produce yourself to be seen?” and “confession is a collaborative...
Dead for 32,000 years, arctic plant is revived →
breakingnews:
The New York Times reports:
Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay permanently frozen until excavated by scientists a few years ago.
Photo by Svetlana Yashina
“No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...”
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake
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In which I fundraise →
psychotropicpolitics:
Hi follower-people, I’m from Massachusetts, where Republican Scott Brown has 18 million dollars raised for his reelection campaign against prohibitive Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren. This week, Brown cosponsored the “Blunt amendment” which would allow employers to refuse insurance coverage of contraceptives on moral/religions grounds— essentially, a conscience clause...
“You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not...”
– Toni Morrison, Paradise (via funkchunk)
“It is my opinion that the combat exclusion policy actually increases the risk of...”
– Former Army Sergeant Kayla Williams dropped a lot of wisdom in an NPR interview earlier this week. (via tenementhalls)
