gaivota:

Justicia & Dignidad

Maritza Soledad is a Xicana spoken word poeta from the Pacific Northwest. Heavily involved in underground social justice movement, Maritza uses words to liberate young minds. I snapped this flicka of Maritza when she was leaving back to the westside of Washington after having come to the Yakima Valley to perform with a Waxicana Art Collective known as MUJERES IN MOTION.
By Nena de Digitalchola.com/Esafirmehyna.com Madeline Alvizo

Justicia & Dignidad

Maritza Soledad is a Xicana spoken word poeta from the Pacific Northwest. Heavily involved in underground social justice movement, Maritza uses words to liberate young minds. I snapped this flicka of Maritza when she was leaving back to the westside of Washington after having come to the Yakima Valley to perform with a Waxicana Art Collective known as MUJERES IN MOTION.

By Nena de Digitalchola.com/Esafirmehyna.com Madeline Alvizo

On agendas, social issues and real-life awkwardness

malindalo:

Last month, when I blogged about Heteronormativity, fantasy, and Bitterblue, the issue of a writer’s “agenda” popped up more than once, as in: Did Kristin Cashore have a liberal agenda when writing Bitterblue, and was it too obvious? Those questions can obviously be extended to all writers and books: Did the writer have an agenda (of whatever kind), and was it too obvious? I’ve been thinking about this issue ever since, and today I’m going to unpack some of my thoughts about it. [Continue reading]

"Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy."
- Nikki Giovanni (via amandaonwriting)

moeofyo:

because of meghan i am going to write a les mis fic that is just a 10 paragraph biography of the landlady of the building where they fuck

#’who is ”they”?’ #i’ll tell you but first i have to explain the landlady’s view of napoleon #hugo-authentic fanfic

Some of Kristin Cashore’s notes from when she was planning Fire.

“How do you love something w/o needing to possess it?
How do you find something beautiful + not need to take it?”

"The Sailor cannot see the North — but knows the Needle can —"
- Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 7 June 1862

In the Sandbox: An Interview With Junot Díaz

The Tech: You’ve said that your father had a library in the basement that showed you that reading could be masculine. I never thought of it as special to any gender in particular — in your culture, does everything have to be either masculine or feminine?

Junot Diaz: In my culture? You mean our culture? Are you trying to tell me that reading and intellectual activity isn’t feminized in the U.S.? At a cultural level? That gender doesn’t infect nearly all our thinking in this, our society? These false binaries between masculine and feminine [are] not something that I invented nor something that’s exclusively “Dominican.” I might just happen to be more aware of these things but that doesn’t mean that we’re not all in the same sandbox.

fuckyeahbookarts:

Has your cat ever walked across your keyboard? Well, it’s not a new problem. Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel recently Tweeted this photo of a 15th century book with… you guessed it… cat paw prints in ink on the pages! We’re part of a long and glorious historical movement, friends. (Source: Dr. Marty Becker)

"Sappho’s image appears in many fanciful manifestations. The rather lifeless statue of her in Mytilene, shouldering a lyre, bespeaks pride in the island’s native daughter but also discomfort with her sexuality… . Other statues turn Sappho into an alluring naked seductress, though probably many were meant to lure men rather than women. In other incarnations, she has come a leisured beauty, a stern Victorian bluestocking, a winsome adolescent, an ethereally pastel spirit ascending to the heavens, and a brooding, bare-chested bard cloaked in mysterious black. The metamorphoses are further proof of Sappho’s endurance as honored poet and lesbian icon."
- Gay Lives edited by Robert Aldrich, reviewed at lesbrary.com. (via fuckyeahlesbianliterature)

"It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read."
- Lemony Snicket (via runa-lovegood)

On agendas, social issues and real-life awkwardness

"Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy." - Nikki Giovanni (via amandaonwriting)

"The Sailor cannot see the North — but knows the Needle can —" - Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 7 June 1862

In the Sandbox: An Interview With Junot Díaz

In the Sandbox: An Interview With Junot Díaz

"It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read." - Lemony Snicket (via runa-lovegood)

"Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy."
- Nikki Giovanni (via amandaonwriting)

"The Sailor cannot see the North — but knows the Needle can —"
- Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 7 June 1862

"It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read."
- Lemony Snicket (via runa-lovegood)