the exact spot at which i feel most creative . spanish steps, roma
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IT’S HERE… Somersault’s spring music issue!
Check out our free, downloadable pdf magazine for essays by David Grossman, Qainat Khan, Alexia Chandon-Piazza, Corinne Grinapol and your two editors, Evan Fleischer and Torie Rose DeGhett, not to mention beautiful artwork by Gregory Muenzen. Check back here throughout the day as we post the essays to this Tumblr so you can reblog and otherwise share them individually.
Happy reading!
For those of you who weren’t around this morning… the individual essays are all posted to our Tumblr!
“It’s about families. It’s about stories. It’s about dignity.” - Jose Antonio Vargas on Immigration Reform
“People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It’s actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you’re going to Toledo but you’re actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren’t driving well.”
– Ben Silbermann
And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.
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this house, in the italian countryside. dreaming.
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‘Qu’est ce que c’est le hasard?
L’ombre de mon ignorance.’
What is fate?
The shadow of my ignorance.
Say you’re walking down the sidewalk on a beautiful day. Someone who has internalized an outsider’s perspective of herself will often spend more time adjusting her clothing or hair, wondering what other people are thinking of her, judging the shape of her shadow or reflection in a window, etc. She will picture herself walking – she literally turns herself into an object of vision – instead of enjoying the sunny weather….
… Women are constantly being looked at. Even when we’re not, we’re so hyperaware of the possibility of being looked at that it can rule even our most private lives. Including in front of our mirrors, alone.
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Excerpt via Beauty Redefined ”To BE or to be LOOKED at?” (via fitvillains)
Good Gawd, THIS.
I’m working to re-define my thinking about myself and walk in the glorious space of not being an object for other people’s visual consumption and the freedom it brings.
And reminding people of that fact when they feel compelled to comment.
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Fuck.
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scary how true this is.
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