“Transgender people have a 1-in-12 chance of being murdered, compared to the 1-in-18,000 chance faced by average Americans (Human Rights Campaign, 2009).”
just let that sink in for a second.
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RSSTop 6 Giles Moments suggested by onegirlinalltheworld
The bottom left is my favorite.
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Fuji Apple Spice Cake with penuche frosting. I made one change: instead of a couple tablespoons of bourbon, I soaked 3/4 c raisins in enough Sailor Jerry’s spiced rum to cover them (maybe 1/3 c, I’m not sure) and added them with the apples at the end. I’ve made it with rum frosting a couple times, which is also amazing.
queer people are always minor passing background characters in television shows to illustrate the fact that we exist but we’re not important enough to be main characters.
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She's relentless.
Ugh. I cannot be thinking about this Claire Novak business. I have too much work to do and now all I want to do is write like 40k words of bamf!Claire fanfic.
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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—Zelda Fitzgerald, in a review of her husband’s book in 1922 (via trishahaddad)
Reminder that F. Scott Fitzgerald stole his wife’s writing, many times, while suppressing her works. See “Save Me the Waltz”, which he forced her to revise so that he could use parts of it in his own book “Tender Is the Night”. And which author do we study in school?
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I didn’t know this.
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He also encouraged her to have affairs so he could use that for inspiration, and when she wanted to leave him for a man she fell in love with, he locked her in their house and wouldn’t let her leave.
When she wanted to publish “Save me the Waltz,” Fitzgerald wrote in his diary about DELIBERATELY trying to TRIGGER her schizophrenic episodes and making her incapable of fighting that battle.
And Fitzgerald scholars KNOW all this. They write articles about how it was all okay because in the end, it inspired Fitzgerald to write Great Literature.
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knife his corpse
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that sounds about right
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He was a shitty author, tho…
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Every time I hear some dudebro making the argument that “Women don’t make great art” or “Women aren’t geniuses” I want to punch them in the face with examples like this of the systemic erasure of remarkable women from the historical record.
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I think I’m becoming a fan of Yoon Mi Rae. She’s really pretty great.
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