Tag Archives: Nonfiction

problems of patriarchy

Posted on May 26, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week “I don’t believe in the therapeutic effects of writing … I really think that the only healing possible will be through justice … “ — Cristina Rivera Garza, to Lillian Perlmutter / “‘The only … Continue reading →

in this (my) neighborhood pt. 62

Posted on May 24, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: We are all bodies of change. — Laura Killingbeck / “A Woman Who Left Society to Live with Bears Weighs in on ‘Man or Bear’” / Bikepacking.com

song of extinction

Posted on May 19, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week | | The summers become hotter & hotter. | | Unbearable & luminous, the refrain of the song of extinction— —Dante Di Stefano / “Green Burial Unsonnet” “But the scale of this year’s heat — amplified … Continue reading →

fantasy of truth

Posted on May 12, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Travelling by bicycle is a life of simple things taken seriously: hunger, thirst, friendship, the weather, the stutter of the world beneath you. — Kate Harris / Land of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds … Continue reading →

systems to bursting

Posted on May 5, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week There are mornings I wakeand wonder, why? Later, wanderingthe walkways, in searchof something to fill the holein me . . . — Krista Franklin / “Everyday around the world a woman is pulled into … Continue reading →

in the freezer

Posted on May 3, 2024 by istsfor manity

Ten Things Overheard at the Decemberists Show — I didn’t expect it to be so cold . . . now it’s raining! — Grab the Bruins hat! — They’re playing “Seasons in the Sun!” — We’re going to start with … Continue reading →

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be the change

Posted on April 30, 2024 by istsfor manity

Unbroken Tanka The antic days drift,Unbroken, day after dayInto the ether. Decolonize your brain stem —Be the change you want to live. What I’m Reading: For years the thought of you scorched my eyeballsNow all is well under the scalding … Continue reading →

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in my neighborhood pt. 60

Posted on April 29, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: A city will know that it’s succeeded in becoming a cycling city when people don’t think of themselves as cyclists – riding a bicycle is just the way to get around. — Melissa Bruntlett & Chris Bruntlett … Continue reading →

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is creeping faster

Posted on April 28, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week It was hypnagogic sitting with him on the vinyl sofa tucked under the vibrating signs THRILLS, LOVE, and THE BRIGHT & THE SHINY as bluegrass twanged. We talked deeply over Bengali food . . … Continue reading →

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action and reaction

Posted on April 21, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week . . . we’ve gone over from the relative freedoms of capitalism to technofeudalism, in which those who control the platforms have direct control over the rest of us, reducing us to the station … Continue reading →