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I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:
One day you will be sick."
Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl
This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women are using a traditional two line poetry form to express their resistance to male oppression, their feelings about love (considered blasphemous), and their doubts about religion.
One of the best articles I’ve read all year. Here’s the link
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- katniss/gale
- gale
- katniss
- almost everything else too this series is a tragedy because there are far worse games to play and she signs up for the games for her sister and her sister dies anyway. her mother vanishes and her best friend has too much blood she can’t look at and she’s left alone, by herself, with a man who needs her to rebuild him while she still needs to rebuild herself. this series is a tragedy, it pretended it was a story about hope for a while but that’s not how it turned out because she thinks of her children as playing on a graveyard and it is never, ever going to be okay.
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I’d tell her not to be such a snot and not to be such a scenester, to back the fuck away from big talkers, and to think big herself from the start. There’s so much societal training, for women especially, not to think big, and I regret every moment I spent trying to make the adorable and tiny when I could have been plotting things large and deep.
