“Something else is hurting you—that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”

—Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you.”

— Nick Cave

By Ada Limón:

By Matt Haig:

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

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Flip through Painted Stork Edition of The Wise Owl (April 2024). The rustle of the pages as you flip through is music to the ears.
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Skin-censed? Read all about it in Shinie Antony ‘s column. Reminded me of something funny my chacha said to an American guest. ‘Indians like entertainment even around birth. Yours are always white. Ours could be brown, beige, black, even creamish. It’s a fun guessing game 😁

'This book features 20 women, right from the pre-independence era to the current times. Their stories are as different from each other as could be, but what they all have in common is their willingness to go beyond what is prescribed for them, to defy the odds stacked against

Love this poem by Alice White:

A woman should never learn to sew. And if she can she shouldn't admit to it.

The English Patient

As people try to justify why they are gloating about me (and many others) being abused, it seems a good time to post these from The Chain. The book exists *because* society tells us we are not good enough to deserve safety, or compassion, that we are not the right kind of victim.

Writers, agents, rights managers, scouts, we are open for submissions! #IF Westland Books

'grieving is a form of learning — one that teaches us how to be in the world without someone we love in it. '
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Carol Mitchell (What Start Bad a Mornin’) and Shinie Antony (Can’t) read from and discuss their new novels about how secrets from the past complicate the present, in conversation with Caroline Mackenzie.
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