december 17 - the day tumblr’s blanket ban on adult content begins - also happens to be International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. seems like @staff has made no bones about prioritizing visibility over protecting their community; not only sex workers, but any individual on this platform seeking validation for their body in the face of cultural assault.
in light of this “unfortunate coincidence” i’ll be abandoning ship until tumblr comes up with a more compassionate solution (read: so long, folks). since i won’t see your likes, consider donating to SWOP and voting with your dollar instead. thanks for the past 9 years, don’t @ me again.
Kyoto International Conference Center
Architect: Sachio Otani
Architectural Style: Metabolism
Takaragaike, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Why is there nothing wild in you
to explain it, nothing killing; whyam I the chased thing horrified
to overtake myself in the brush I wonder &if a deer darts across this road & the dead don’t
take it, don’t the dead wait, don’t I know,don’t the dead always covet something running?
— Emily Skaja, from “Four Hawks,” published in Academy of American Poets
(Source: poets.org)
(Source: 8-bitfiction, via 8-bitfiction)
Genesis P-Orridge Has Always Been a Provocateur of the Body. Now She’s at Its Mercy.
(Source: zumzeig)
“My father slaps me and I see the sun.”
― Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Afternoon on a Hill“The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451“Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio“It has been found again.
What? –
Eternity.
It is the sea mingled with the sun.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Eternity“I am tired of human
she said
I want to live on the sun —”
― Louise Glück, Averno