Race is Class is Taste »
and some other thoughts on #MetrosexualBlackLincoln for the Globe.
They changed “plain sad” in the beginning to “plain said.” Uh, alright. I don’t feel settled with these thoughts soooo if you have some too you can email me. Not like you can’t any other time too.
“There is nothing like talking to somebody IRL, it’s true. There is also nothing like body language or like the feeling of being looked at when you want to be. But when it’s good there’s really nothing like sexting.”
“Speaking in Tongues,” by Sarah Nicole Prickett | Read More
Image: Masamichi Oikawa via
So happy to be a New Inquirian! What else would my first piece be about, asks anyone who really… knows me.
Reblogged from The New Inquiry.
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"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile."
— Jean Baudrillard. Yeah dude, THIS IS WHY I DON’T SMILE A LOT.
(Source: m0su)
Reblogged from An Existential Life.
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"The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane."
Reblogged from this isn't happiness..
The Hood, the Hoodie, and the Hoodlum »
Wrote this for the Globe & Mail yesterday, in the paper today.
I Wrote About Being Not White and It Was Not As Easy as Being White »
Here is a picture of me looking really white with my similarly white friend David.
Word of the Day: GAL »
Lately now that a quarter of my life is over, or perhaps half my life, or three quarters, who knows… I’ve been thinking about when to stop calling myself a girl. So has this Atlantic writer, but her answer isn’t the one I wanted to hear. I mean. Gal??? So I am still taking suggestions.
Word of the Day: Nomophobia »
Once, though, I turned off my phone for a entire day and night and didn’t miss anything.
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"I mean, look, when the NDP came into power, I was a white male, I paid a very severe price because it had nothing to do with ability any more, it had to do with male versus female. There’s no point when the oppressed become the oppressors. It makes no sense at all. Either you get rid of oppression from everybody or we don’t."
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the fucking budget chief of my fucking city (via beautravail)
“There’s no point” is really the takeaway here.
Reblogged from Beau Travail.
