The world is a dangerous place, there’s no doubt about it, for women especially. You’re always dodging bullets of a certain kind, but we can’t let that make us scared to be free. Watch your back, but have your freedom. Just do it. Be wise. Cock your head at everybody. Side-eye everybody. Watch out for the weirdos that want to push up on you and touch you when you don’t want to be touched and all that shit that’s real fucked up, but have your freedom. It’s the best thing ever. And when you’re free out there, just think and think about what you can build with your friends and your siblings. Don’t let people make you smaller than you are. Ask your parents, in the nicest way, “What do I have to do so I can have some freedom? Is it grades? Is it cleaning the apartment? What do I have to do so I can have freedom?” Because from that freedom will come everything you are going to be. So work it out. ♦

Everything is so accessible now, but when you stared, hip-hop culture was never the dominant culture.

We were fighting, Julianne. There was a time when rock ruled and hip-hop was the underdog and nobody believed in it and nobody thought it was real. And every article that came out in the paper or Time or Newsweek or whatever was “It’s negative” or “They’re killing people” or “It’s a fad, it’s not real, it’s not worthy of real criticism or love” or anything like that. One of my first big stories at the San Francisco Weekly —I thought I was so investigative and so deep—was about how club bookers told me off the record that there was a de facto ban against booking hip-hop in clubs in San Francisco. We were fighting all the time. To me, it was a fight for our humanity, for our place in culture. We had to constantly say, “We’re here, we’re rap, we’re an art form, we’re graffiti, we’re dance, we’re breakdancing, we’re rapping, we’re creating music. If you won’t book us in your stadiums or nightclubs, we’ll have parties in parks.” It was the greatest time ever, frankly. It’s so amazing to be part of a movement. As a journalist, it’s a complicated relationship because you don’t want to be totally fanned-out, but I was straddling the line, because I believed so hard that hip-hop was real and I felt that people were not giving it a fair shake. I felt committed to making people understand that it’s a thing, and it’s our thing, and it’s going to be even bigger than this. It’s going to take over.

It was an amazing feeling, like you were always working for the culture. If you are 16 or 14 right now, if there’s something that you believe in, don’t hang back! Put on your stomping boots, put on your sassiest dress and be at the center of that shit. It’s just the best to be part of something as it’s happening. Then on those faraway days when you’re like, “Oh my god, I’m thirty-threeee!” (it happens, young Rookies, it happens), you can look back and say, “I was major, and I’m going to be even more major in my 40s. I have experience in how to change the world.” If you don’t do that, you’re going to be mad. “I was doing what ? Homework?!” “What? I was high? Too high to enjoy it?” No—put on your cutest shit and go to the fucking party and run it. Not to get too preachy or anything, but don’t always be going to the party, give the fucking party, you know what I’m saying? Curate it and make that shit as fresh as possible. It’s all good to be invited, but it’s a lot better to be the inviter. It’s all good to be the reader, but it’s way better to be the creator, the editor. It’s just fresher, I’m sorry. And no shade to the community of people that are on the side of reading and just coming to the party, because maybe you’re curing cancer, maybe you’re raising amazing kids, maybe you’re just going to work every day stunting off fools as the dopest receptionist ever at the dentist’s office, because that’s fresh too! But if you’re really into culture, own that shit. There’s nothing like starting your own shit. There’s nothing like moving on up, being like, “I was writing, now I’m editing.” “I was editing, now I’m editing a whole section.”

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THERAPY SESSIONS IN SEPHORA

• what are things you do to feel pretty
• what are things you do to feel safe
• what are things to feel powerful
• what are the relationships between these things
• are they all the same things or are they the opposite
• can you tell me about the sacrifices you have made to feel one and not the other
• can you tell me about the first experience of shame you felt about a pretty experience
• can you tell me how a failure of prettymaking gave you shame or maybe pride
• can you tell me about who taught you what pretty is
• can you tell me about your most important ugly
• can you tell me about your ideal form
• can you tell me about your nightmares
• can you tell me if they are twins
• can you tell me if you are ready to have them meet for lunch and maybe make out
• what is more important to you the method or the result
• can you imagine doing things exactly the opposite way and are you prepared to see the results of perverting your pretty
• are you ashamed
• what are you ashamed of
• how do you feel when you take off a thing or put a thing on
• can you be ashamed and proud at the same time all the time forever isn’t it exhausting
• why

https://arabellesicardi.com/post/57278168821/therapy-sessions-in-sephora

" I actually attack the concept of happiness. I don’t mind people being happy, of course, but the idea that everything we do is part of the pursuit of happiness seems to me a really dangerous idea, and has led to a contemporary disease in Western society: a fear of sadness. It’s a really odd thing that we’re now seeing people saying “write down 3 things that made you happy today before you go to sleep”, and “cheer up”, and “happiness is our birthright”, and so on. We’re kind of teaching our kids that happiness is the default position - it’s rubbish. Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for, and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure - all those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don’t teach us much. Everyone says we grow through pain, but as soon as we experience pain, they say “Quick! Move on! Cheer up!”… I’d like to have a moratorium on the word “happiness” and to replace it with the word “wholeness”. Ask yourself “is this contributing to my wholeness?” and if you’re having a bad day, it is."

Hugh Mackay

do i like girls because they are sexualized so much everywhere or because i just like them? we'll never know

for my birthday i'd like my problems to solve themselves somehow

please and thank you

i'm listening to nasa

youarelistening.to/nasa

it's nice

“we just want to hug our families again without
worrying they’ll notice we reek of our own
disappointment”

Is there a particular method of learning languages that works for you? I'm about to attempt to learn Spanish, and I'm worried that trying to learn it as an adult might be more difficult for me as opposed to learning it while I'm young. Any advice?

No method, plow through material and don’t give up.