May 2012
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April 2012
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we’re the heirs to the glimmering world
March 2012
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To You - Frank O'Hara
What is more beautiful than night and someone in your arms that’s what we love about art it seems to prefer us and stays
if the moon or a gasping candle sheds a little light or even dark you become a landscape in a landscape with rocks and craggy mountains
and valleys full of sweaty ferns breathing and lifting into the clouds which have actually come low as a blanket of aspirations’ blue
for...
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“In a sense, there is a tyranny to the score. While we rate the newborn...”
– Atul Gawande, “The Score”
So many thoughts after encountering this essay in the excellent Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance. Gawande asks whether medicine should be a craft or an industry and concludes the latter: you can most improve what you do when you measure results...
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February 2012
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The Count 2011 →
Pie charts of gender representation in various prestigious literary outlets for the past year.
Trying to find a silver lining here: I’d been considering subscribing to Granta for a while, and their being the only balanced publication in this review convinced me to go ahead and do it. My favorite fiction journal, One Story, is not elite enough for this list, but has also published men and...
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Carne Asada - Clay Matthews
Late night eating Mexican, drinking imported beer, the sun goes down over the brick patio and we are left with the darkness, the first of the warm
spring and the daffodils that line the sidewalk. People with their children have long and silent conversations with their plates as the children
look up and out to the expanse of sky as it represents freedom for everyone. Freedom is an impossible...
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“It is always a good idea to be able communicate clearly—no matter the field. As...”
– Ta-Nehisi, on writing being a trade and industry (via missprotestalot)
That last sentence is something I’ve thought about a lot. Related: my undergrad thesis; David Rakoff’s “Writing is like pulling teeth. From my dick.”
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Buttonholes in Hand Knitting, Part 1 |... →
This article is going to change how I knit buttonholes. Both the string spacing trick and vertical/horizontal alignment option are things that had never even occurred to me.
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Virginia's Proposed Ultrasound Law Is an... →
More and more I am understanding the extent to which this — all of this — is couched in a fundamental distrust of women and our ability to make decisions about our own bodies.
And political posturing, obviously. But the fact that women’s lives and dignity and agency are disposable ammunition in that battle is feeling more and more personally insulting.
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Postnatal care in France: Vagina exercises and... →
“There haven’t been extensive studies done, but what studies exist show that la rééducation significantly reduces incontinence and pelvic pain at nine months after giving birth. Frankly, I’m happy there’s a medical professional paying attention to what happened down there. Rééducation périnéale gets scoffed at in American and Canadian publications as one of the most lurid examples of the...
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“There must always be the bite of the creek’s smell. The face of the man I loved when he was asleep. I worry that talking about it will turn these sentences into words instead of the experience. I want to keep the real world that is inside me, and its stillness.” - Linda Gregg
(via frannyintransit)
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January 2012
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Ask (Another) Abortion Provider | The Hairpin →
“I think the flipside there is there’s this narrative of women who have abortions that goes along with the welfare-queen narrative of the ’80s. The idea that these are fallen women, women who allowed their sexuality to run rampant. This incredibly negative, demeaning perception that also has a lot of sexism, racism, classism in it — it’s all the isms tied in together. For me to share...
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The Caging of America →
“Epidemics seldom end with miracle cures. Most of the time in the history of medicine, the best way to end disease was to build a better sewer and get people to wash their hands. ‘Merely chipping away at the problem around the edges’ is usually the very best thing to do with a problem; keep chipping away patiently and, eventually, you get to its heart. … The truth is, a...
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