junkyard of words
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”In Burma, authorities closely monitor Rohingya families. Most Rohingya are not permitted to travel beyond their village. Family household registers are updated regularly so the authorities know who and how many Rohingya are in each house. Any discrepancies to these records are punishable by fines and arrest. A photograph taken by Burmese authorities of a Rohingya family in in Burma. The entire family eventually fled to Bangladesh in 2009. (2009)
EXILED TO NOWHERE: Burma’s Rohingya
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Ray Bradbury
August 22, 1920 — June 5, 2012Farewell to an incredible author and pillar of the science fiction literary world.
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”When I was in college, a teacher once said that all women live by a ‘rape schedule.’ I was baffled by the term, but as she went on to explain, I got really freaked out. Because I realized that I knew exactly what she was talking about. And you do too. Because of their constant fear of rape (conscious or not), women do things throughout the day to protect themselves. Whether it’s carrying our keys in our hands as we walk home, locking our car doors as soon as we get in, or not walking down certain streets, we take precautions. While taking precautions is certainly not a bad idea, the fact that certain things women do are so ingrained into our daily routines is truly disturbing. It’s essentially like living in a prison - all the time. We can’t assume that we’re safe anywhere: not on the streets, not in our homes. And we’re so used to feeling unsafe that we don’t even see that there’s something seriously fucked up about it.
Jessica Valenti (via misanthropically)
(Source: wordsthat-speak)
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Aimee Bender on Beauty and the Beast, the most romantic story ever told:
On the one hand, the Disney film, which came out in 1991, hit this particular generation of college students nearly at birth, and it makes sense that Belle, Gaston, and the rugged, burdened Robby Benson-Beast shaped their views of film and love and storytelling. Many of them have watched it dozens of times. But the story’s appeal is deeper than that. Like all lasting fairy tales, and possibly even more than the others, Beauty and the Beast resonates with some harp string tucked deep in our DNA.
What is it about this tale and its various extraordinary retellings?
Click here for more from Aimee on the classic fairy tale, or read up on some of those extraordinary retellings. We have Merrie Haskell on Beauty, the first English-language novel-length take on the tale. Sherri Smith revisits The Fire Rose, set near San Francisco in 1905 with a bookworm of a heroine not unlike Disney’s Belle. Finally, Beast sets the action in Persia, telling the story from the Beast’s perspective.
Beauty and the Beast is a classic fairy tale, and we all think we know the story. But do we?
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