This is Water
This is, “Feelings”
nossunthumana: Gosnell, Race, & Health Care Access
http://diannaeanderson.net/blog/2013/4/we-need-to-talk-about-kermit-gosnell
“The intersectionality of this issue cannot be ignored. It is vastly important that most of his patients were poor people of color, that they were already in impoverished circumstances and that an unintended…
This case is extremely upsetting. The terrible thing is, the pro-life backlash from the Gosnell case will only perpetuate the expanding regulation of abortion rights, decreasing quality access to young women, low-income women, and women of color. You know what more laws against Roe v. Wade means? More horrific “doctors” like Gosnell.
"Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait."
Haruki Murakami/ The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (via thatkindofwoman)
(Source: vous-trouvez, via thatkindofwoman)
Five Sentence Story
Today, I walked into the public bathroom near my old dorm, and saw that the big stall was closed; the stall in which I’ve privately shed tears on more than one occasion after a stressful day of class.
Adhering to the code of privacy, I walked, quiet as a mouse, into the adjacent stall, in which I heard the pouring of fluids, coming as if waves, heavy and nonuniform, from the other stall. The stop and go, ebb and flow, followed by gargling, and retching. And pouring, and flushing. Until there was nothing left.
What do Teachers Make?
First Taste, Slow Motion Reactions of Children Tasting Various Foods For the First Time
(via dolkapots)
