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A true gender-egalitarian future is an atheist future. No way around it.

Chuck Palahniuk, oof

I never cared much for my national identity, but because so many global systems and structures are built on the basis of it, I ended up having to care anyways, in spite of myself. Would be interesting to read up a bit on anti-nationalism.

"Cathedral in Winter," oil painting by Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, 19th century AD.

how will I fit all this life in one life? / I need a map, a vocabulary list; I can’t learn the world // fast enough. Faith Shearin, from 'The Owl Question' (2002)

Really glad to have found the “Stoicism sucks and is just emotional suppression repackaged” side of the Internet.

the human heart wanders too migrating birds Issa

from Banu Mushtaq's 'Be a Woman Once, Oh Lord!' (in Heart Lamp: Selected Stories) Giving nothing to the world, getting nothing from the world

Unfortunately, some of my best writing happens when I'm absolutely miserable. 😃

As someone forever in awe of what our minds do with language—and what language, in turn, does with our minds—of how thought emerges through linguistic intentionality, I find it increasingly difficult to make sense of how easily we have chosen to outsource this part of ourselves.

Religionists will have you believe that atheism is a sort of criminal aberration from their superimposed “norm” — the truth being we’re all born atheist, some of us just manage hold onto that logic and reason stronger than others.

Fantastic stories! Can’t wait for all of them to come out 🙌🏽✨

—Victoria Chang

Andrea Gibson, “Wellness Check” M.R. Mandell — another one worth remembering

Getting real weary of the self-proclaimed “intelligent.”

Things my current WIP has me Googling: "cockroach varieties," "how to keep a pet cockroach," "what do cockroaches eat," and "how long do cockroaches live."