Samantha — Wise cracking firebender with a Lannister's pride and ambition coupled with the mannerisms of a Tyrell. A proud Star Sapphire who prides love and amibtion above all things. Take a look at my favorite characters, maybe it'd be more definitive. I'm just another passionate and fragmentary girl with her eyes set on success...more?
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Gatsby, recoverd by Ian O’Phelan, Ryan Collier, Caree Michel & Bryce Wilmer.
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Nina Katchadourian - Sorted Books
“I suddenly recalled a moment in the university library when, looking for a book, I had turned my head sideways as I walked down the stacks and thought how spectacular it would be if all the titles formed an accidental sentence when read one after the other in a long chain. Standing amidst the bookshelves in Half Moon Bay, my next move was simply to make this imaginary accident real. I spent days shifting and arranging books, composing them so that their titles formed short sentences. The exercise was intimate, like a form of portraiture, and it felt important that the books I selected should function as a cross section of the larger collection.”
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Lesbian Literature
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other’s names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.
‘Matthew,’ she said, ‘have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?’
For a moment he did not answer. Taking up the decanter he held it to the light.
‘Robin can go anywhere, do anything,’ Nora continued, ‘because she forgets, and I nowhere because I remember.’ She came toward him. ‘Matthew,’ she said, ‘you think I have always been like this. Once I was remorseless, but this is another love — it goes everywhere; there is no place for it to stop — it rots me away.’The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde
I have been woman
for a long time
beware my smile
I am treacherous with old magic
and the noon’s new fury
with all your wide futures
promised
I am
woman
and not white.But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
You’re neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you’re as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you’re unexplained as yet—you’ve not got your niche in creation. But some day that will come, and meanwhile don’t shrink from yourself, but face yourself calmly and bravely.
I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn’t lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn’t have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn’t have kissed her, without wanting to save her.
The Bermudez Triangle, Maureen Johnson
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.
The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith
How was it possible to be afraid and in love… The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.
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The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
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Hello everyone! I shared this earlier this week with the contributors to our Kickstarter project and wanted to share it with all our followers - it’s our official zine cover! The design is by the very talented illustrator, Naomi Elliot. She did a fantastic job and I couldn’t be more pleased.
The zine will feature interviews with women artists of all mediums - street art, ceramics, illustration, painting, etc. It will be available next month. :)
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