Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

Hanif Abdurraqib, In Defense of Despair

Julia Liu, from "Exit Wound"

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

#that was (give or take) around the time of the bronze age collapse #crete was no longer a major player #and the known world was kinda in turmoil #and yet someone planted an olive tree #i’m not saying there’s a direct parallel #but you know…systemic collapse thanks to many things including climate change #and it sucked for a lot of people #but they still needed olive oil #and idk man…maybe plant a tree #because the world has ended so many times #but the tree is still here #and so are we

this post is about wlw sex, men and minors DNI

Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Eugène Cyrille Brunet, Messaline

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from a letter featured in The Life & Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Mary Oliver, from "Staying Alive" in Upstream: Selected Essays