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timemagazine: It’s official: The Dreamers are here to...

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:45:10 -0400

It’s official: The Dreamers are here to stay.

Young people who are in the country illegally will avoid deportation and get work permits under an order announced by the Department of Homeland Security on Friday.

Read about it here.

“I am an undocumented immigrant from the republic of Korea and I want to be the change that I want to see in the world.”

—Myung Keun Choi, Korea: America’s Undocumented Immigrants

(Gian Paul Lozza for TIME)

boston: US will not deport young illegal immigrants The Obama...

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:42:43 -0400

boston:

US will not deport young illegal immigrants

The Obama administration will grant work permits to young illegal immigrants who came to the US as children and have led law-abiding lives.

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY BEAUTIFUL. I have goosebumps all over.

This is what’s up for the next couple of posts. I...

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:12:17 -0400

This is what’s up for the next couple of posts. I didn’t buy a new reading journal; I knew I should have. Until then, I’m keeping the quotes here.

I’m working on being pretty militant by the time I graduate. Ha.

"Would an American woman move to another country and not hold dear her memories of childhood places..."

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:08:42 -0400

““Would an American woman move to another country and not hold dear her memories of childhood places and people? WOuld she not remember with longing some special song or food that she has no access to in her new country? And would she not feel her communication limited, no matter how well she learned her second language, because some very deep, emotional things can only be expressed in one’s native tongue?””

- Judit Moschkovich, “––But I know you, American Woman” from This Bridge Called My Back

We're All in the Same Boat - Rosario Morales

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:03:00 -0400

I am not white. I am not middle class.

I am white skinned and puertorican. I was born into the working class and married into the middle class. I object to the label white & middle class both because they don’t include my working class life and my puertoricanness, but also because “white & middle class” stands for a kind of politics. Color and class don’t define people or politics. I get angry with those in the women’s movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people.

no help for thatthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:25:38 -0400

no help for that

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.

Kay Ryan

Mon, 07 May 2012 19:02:43 -0400

Kay Ryan

the poetry in the trees

Mon, 07 May 2012 18:59:56 -0400

the poetry in the trees

"Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or..."

Mon, 07 May 2012 18:58:48 -0400

““Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy.” I’d like to show how “intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members” connects with “the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.” I’d like to have a word for “the sadness inspired by failing restaurants” as well as for “the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.” I’ve never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I’ve entered my story, I need them more than ever.””

- Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex.

"All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren’t..."

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:30:49 -0400

“All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren’t valued in women.”

- Anna Quindlen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992, on today’s Fresh Air. (via nprfreshair)

Record Daaaaaay

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:42:28 -0400

Record Daaaaaay

Things I love come up over and over.

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:38:31 -0400

Things I love come up over and over.

"The more I think of it, I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a..."

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:36:26 -0400

“The more I think of it, I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one.”

- Ruskin

I love Robert Frank’s The Americans, most of all because...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:49:00 -0400

I love Robert Frank’s The Americans, most of all because of the Kerouac intro. Here it is.

My friend Simon and I are currently exchanging snapshops of...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:28:03 -0400

My friend Simon and I are currently exchanging snapshops of photographers we like. I’ll post here what he sends me and what I will or have sent him.

Looking through the margins of my notebooks for class what catches my eye is that I write down things that have happened to me. Things that I remembered all of a sudden that I don’t want to forget. It feels like things slip away. The internet is as permanent as anything else, I guess. More permanent?

I just want to remember.

Googling dollhouses…This site is really creepy and cool....

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:21:00 -0400

Googling dollhouses…This site is really creepy and cool. There are a bunch of these but I think this one is my favorite.

I guess I’ve been thinking about dolls a lot. Probably...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:15:49 -0400

I guess I’ve been thinking about dolls a lot. Probably going to model one of my prints off of one of these rooms

Donatello - Mary Magdalene, mid 1450s, wood

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:55:31 -0400

Donatello - Mary Magdalene, mid 1450s, wood

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Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:25:11 -0500

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