Someone Else's Voyage

benjlevy: I was a white girl in a crowd of white girls in the...

anotherjohndoe — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:21:55 -0400

benjlevy:

I was a white girl in a crowd of white girls in the park.

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anotherjohndoe — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:07:01 -0400

topographe: tanya zhenya

anotherjohndoe — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:04:51 -0400

topographe:

tanya zhenya

afootballreport: The World Cup and the world’s protest in...

anotherjohndoe — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:49:06 -0400

afootballreport:

The World Cup and the world’s protest in Brazil

“Everything in Brazil is a mess. There is no education, health care — no security. The government doesn’t care. We’re a rich country with a lot of potential but the money doesn’t go to those who need it most.” - 26 year old Brazilian photographer Manoela Chiabai, speaking to the AP.

The pre-match pleasantries exchanged before each Confederations Cup match belie a dark reality: the people of Brazil are boiling over, and soccer fans and social media mavens worldwide are facilitating their distress.

Over $13 billion has been spent by the Brazilian government on stadium infrastructure and investments related to the World Cup; $13 billion in a country where the income of the average Brazilian hovers around $400 per month. Add in the destruction of historic favelas to make way for a safer Brazil, a dubious stadium bid process and misused government grants, and you have a World Cup more accurately defined by corruption, gentrification and a suppression of the real issues plaguing Brazil, than any sort of sporting spirit.

Brazilian scholar Fabio Malini told the New York Times that “The largest protests are happening in cities which will host World Cup games. Brazilians are mixing soccer and politics in a way that is new, and minority voices are making themselves heard.”

Of course, this isn’t to say that the nearing World Cup is at the root of the ongoing social and political concerns which have led to friction amongst the Brazilian population. Inflation and unemployment are high, the disparity between social classes is expanding, and the poor are bearing the brunt of a new-found focus on globalization and international image; the World Cup is just a spark to long-brewing frustrations. People are suffering, and nothing could seem further from resolving their ills than oppressive concrete stadiums and soon-to-be abandoned hotels.

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tomefirst: Gente.

anotherjohndoe — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:45:19 -0400

tomefirst:

Gente.

Dear Diary, my teen angst bullshit now has a body count.

anotherjohndoe — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:34:04 -0400

Dear Diary, my teen angst bullshit now has a body count.

us government: accidentally likes your pic from 2009

anotherjohndoe — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:46:13 -0400

us government: *accidentally likes your pic from 2009*

"I’m faced daily with choosing violence or a demeanor that saves every other life but my own."

anotherjohndoe — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:33:58 -0400

“

I’m faced daily with choosing

violence

or a demeanor that saves

every other life but my own.

”

- Essex Hemphill, “Cordon Negro” (via thegentlemanjigger)

chrysopoetics: Big Sur in the Moonlight (by Bill Shupp)

anotherjohndoe — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:11:54 -0400

chrysopoetics:

Big Sur in the Moonlight (by Bill Shupp)

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anotherjohndoe — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:58:46 -0400

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anotherjohndoe — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:58:11 -0400

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anotherjohndoe — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:54:18 -0400

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anotherjohndoe — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:53:13 -0400

gunpowderandspark: Everytime I see promotions for The Lone Ranger I just think “So… we’re all just...

anotherjohndoe — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:23:27 -0400

gunpowderandspark:

Everytime I see promotions for The Lone Ranger I just think “So… we’re all just going to let Johnny Depp do that?”

"I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have..."

anotherjohndoe — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:17:24 -0400

“I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you
are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body.
You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger arms and she
will not have violent secrets or an affection for red wine or eyes
that never stay dry. You will fall into her bed and I’ll go back
to spending Friday nights with boys who never learn my last name.

I have chased off every fool who has tried to sleep beside me
You think it’s romantic to fuck the girl who writes poems about you.
You think I’ll understand your sadness because I live inside my own.
But I will show up at your door at 2 am, wild-eyed and sleepless.
and try and find some semblance of peace in your breastbone
and you will not let me in. You will tell me to go home.”

- (via clementinevonradics)

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anotherjohndoe — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:41:31 -0400

justsouthernthings: A woman is only helpless when her nail polish is drying.

anotherjohndoe — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:54:57 -0400

justsouthernthings:

A woman is only helpless when her nail polish is drying.

"black women breathe flowers, too. just because we are taught to grow them in the lining of our..."

anotherjohndoe — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:50:08 -0400

“black women breathe flowers, too.
just because
we are taught to grow them in the lining of our quiet (our grandmothers secret)
does not mean
we do not swelter with wild tenderness.
we soft swim.
we petal.
we scent limbs and love.
we just have been too long a garden for sharp and deadly teeth.
so we
have
grown
ourselves
into
greenhouses.”

- greenhouses, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)

Sex Pistols fangirl in her bedroom,1979

anotherjohndoe — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:40:16 -0400

Sex Pistols fangirl in her bedroom,1979

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anotherjohndoe — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:31:25 -0400