June 2010
12 posts
Eurydice by Carol Ann Duffy
Girls, I was dead and down
in the Underworld, a shade,
a shadow of my former self, nowhen.
It was a place where language stopped,
a black full stop, a black hole
Where the words had to come to an end.
And end they did there,
last words,
famous or not.
It suited me down to the ground.
So imagine me there,
unavailable,
out of this world,
then picture my face in that place
of Eternal...
Abortion Hotline opened in Pakistan
May be triggering.
The hotline, set up by a collection of women’s groups in Pakistan and the Dutch pro-choice group Women on Waves, advises women how to use a drug to induce miscarriage safely and aims to reduce the estimated 890,000 unsafe illegal abortions performed in Pakistan every year.
“There will be very strong opposition,” said Ahsan Iqbal, of the Pakistan Muslim...
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S∇BO: blarg I just can't get over it. →
thanks to sarge’s tumblr for reminding me.
As you may know, there have been some big messy injustices to actors of color happening where the Avatar: Last Airbender movie is concerned.
