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Not all of us have to possess earth-shaking talent. Just common sense and love will do. ― Myrtle Auvil

Not all of us have to possess earth-shaking talent. Just common...

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No Language not only imagines a sexual politics as West Indian as the Caribbean Sea but also charts complex relationships between eroticism, colonialism, militarism, resistance, revolution, poverty, despair, fullness, and hope that explore the pliability necessary to imagine Caribbean same-sex loving politics differently, postcolonially. Myriam Chancy, in the first study of Brand’s poetry, writes her artistic vision as a rescripting of traditional poetics into poelitics: A fusion of politics and poetry that recalls Lorde, who once wrote of the transformative power of poetry as ‘a revelatory distillation of experience’ and as an act of fusion between ‘true knowledge’ and ‘lasting action.’ 8 Brand vocalizes quite lucidly the threat that this infusion of politics into poetics poses to both revolutionary and neocolonial Caribbean thinkers: To dream about a Black woman, even an old Black woman, is dangerous even in a Black dream, an old dream, a Black woman’s dream, even in a dream where you are the dreamer, she writes of reactions to her black lesbian feminist revolutionary artistic work by Marxists and conservatives alike. Even in a Black dream, where I, too, am a dreamer, a lesbian is suspect; a woman is suspect even to other women, especially if she dreams of women. ― Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature

No Language not only imagines a sexual politics as West Indian...

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love…Kim, a partnership wears you down with time. It takes lots of love, lots of imagination for a couple to survive. ― Myriam Ullens, Distant Starless Nights

love…Kim, a partnership wears you down with time. It takes lots...

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Myra was her best friend and she felt bad for betraying her but she was in love with Juan.               I’ll be by later, ― Jahquel J., Crack Money With Cocaine Dreams

Myra was her best friend and she felt bad for betraying...

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Being alive is my destiny. Dying just a destination. ― Myra

Being alive is my destiny. Dying just a destination. ...

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He pumps iron after work. While I’m fixing dinner, I hear him panting and groaning like he’s in labor.—Myra, Kansas City, MO ― Merry Bloch Jones, I Love Him, But . . .

He pumps iron after work. While I’m fixing dinner, I hear...

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There were prostitutes whom the sisters did despise, but not those mentioned in The Gentleman’s Companion: they were scathing about the underlying hypocrisy of high-society women who sold themselves for profitable marriages. What a commentary upon the divinity of marriage are the watering places during the summer seasons! scoffed Victoria. The mercenary ‘mammas’ trot out their daughters on exhibition, as though they were so many stud of horses, to be hawked to the highest bidder. It’s the man who can pay the most money who is sought; it makes no difference how he got it, nor what are his antecedents… To him who bids highest… the article is knocked down… this is the ruling spirit, not at watering places only but in so-called best society everywhere. Marriages of love become rarer year after year, while those of convenience are proportionately on the increase… and we prate of the holy marriage covenant! ― Myra MacPherson, The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

There were prostitutes whom the sisters did despise, but not those...

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I am waiting for my wife to get ready. I see her in front of a mirror, pinching her belly. She asks if I think she is fat.No, I say.Are you sure?Yes.Well, I feel fat.You aren’t.How about now?Still no.What about from this angle?Negative.From this side?Nope.What about when I turn around?No.How about when I hike up one leg, spin in circles, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance?No.Do you REALLY mean it?If you were any skinnier you’d have to stand up five times just to make a shadow. Now can we please go to dinner?But I feel fat.My whole life has been spent in the company of women. When my father died, he left me in a house of estrogen. There, I learned something about the opposite gender.Namely, women often think they are fat. And they are always wrong about this, no matter what their size.It isn’t their fault. Every printed advertisement and commercial tells them to feel this way. But it wasn’t always like this.Things were different seventy-five years ago. Back then, nobody went around saying Marilyn Monroe looked like a North Atlantic whale, or told Doris Day she needed to go paleo.People weren’t this obsessed with being skinny. Consequently, American families ate more bacon, and butter. And you know what they say: The family that eats bacon and butter together, stays together.But things have changed. Famous women from bygone eras would be called large or fluffy in today’s world.Marilyn Monroe, for instance, would be considered a Clydesdale. Barbara Eden, a Holstein. Ginger and Mary Ann wouldn’t have a chance with their muffin-tops. Daisy Duke would be playing the part of Boss Hogg.Last week, I got a letter from a reader named Myra, who is nineteen. Myra feels overweight, and has felt this way since middle school. She has been on a diet for six months but it’s not working.So she went to the doctor. He did what all doctors do. He ran tests and blood work. This led to more tests, more blood work, then an MRI just to be sure. And a consult with a high-priced specialist, a visit to a dermatologist, an herbologist, a zoologist, an ornithologist, and an Episcopal priest.And do you know what? The doc concluded that Myra was in perfect health. In his own words: You’re a little on the skinny side, Myra.How can a girl who is skinny by medical standards believe she is fat? How, I ask?But like I said, it’s not your fault, Myra. We are all in the same boat. We live in a world that tells us we’re ugly, fat, boring, and we need better insurance.We live in a civilization where people drive thirty minutes to the gym to walk on a treadmill. A world where underwear models are selling everything from iced tea to pop music.And when these commercial actors take off their shirts, you can see veins running up their abdomens. Veins, for crying out loud.The Half Naked Plastic Bodies are on every magazine rack, clothing store ad, every newsfeed, in inboxes, junk mail, and even on beer commercials....Well, not that anyone asked me, but I don’t believe in phony TV-people. I believe in real women. Like the women who raised me. The ones who are brave enough to be themselves. And I believe in what they taught me.I believe in eating good food, and fresh okra, summer tomatoes, biscuits, butter, and bacon. Certainly, I believe in health, but also in good food, and in living a rich life.I believe in loving what is in the mirror. I believe in keeping the television off. I believe in long walks ― Sean Dietrich

I am waiting for my wife to get ready. I see...

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Woodhull then continued at race-horse speed, and as if she feared that something would again interpose. Here reports break down. Either she was asked or she posed the rhetorical question Are you a free lover? Yes, I am a free lover! she shouted. I have an inalienable constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can, to change that love every day if I please! Hisses grew louder, but Woodhull continued: and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere; and I have the further right to demand a free and unrestricted exercise of that right, and it is your duty not only to accord it, but as a community to see that I am protected in it. I trust that I am fully understood, for I mean just that, and nothing less. ― Myra MacPherson, The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

Woodhull then continued at race-horse speed, and as if she feared...

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Marriage is the grave of love. ― Myra MacPherson, The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

Marriage is the grave of love. ―...

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