The Brown Sugar Diaries

orientalizing, heteronormative, minoritarian, utopic, dystopic, aestheticization, counternarrative, androcentrism, patriarchical, squigglies. 

May 15
Words that get red squigglies on MS Word that shouldn’t

memory undoes time. a lingering smile and a broken glass can make froth in the same cauldron. each drop of blood allows metal touch metal. you and i have walked miles while standing - you north and me south but they converged: there is moment when the cardinal directions collapse and the sun drenches everything in its intense brilliance. my eyes hurt but i know that, in a glimmering promise of hope, we were there. 

May 12
in the folds

… and failed. 1. Athletics 2. The wilderness 3. Fruit-of-the-Forest Cookies 4. Traditional studies in Art History 5.  Hiking 6. The gym 7. Rice cakes 8. Being friends with people you would normally not get along with 9. Mountains 10. Impressionist Art 

Apr 27
Things That Williams Has Tried To Make Me Care About…
Apr 25

Take me back to South Africa. Now.

issarae:

#FACT
Apr 15

issarae:

#FACT

(via katieography)

People be dumb. bildungsromance: shitmystudentswrite: Many of the statements in this paper are also noted as coming from a person only identified as ‘Ibid’ in the footnotes. I am not skeptical of Ibid’s view, but I would like to find his/her article and read it for myself. rofl

Apr 13
Who’s this “Ibid” character anyway?
terrysdiary:

I am not defined by your ignorance
Apr 9

terrysdiary:

I am not defined by your ignorance

visual-poetry:

by renato ghiotto
(compare: “alone” by edgar allan poe: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-5/)
Mar 14

visual-poetry:

by renato ghiotto

(compare: “alone” by edgar allan poe: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-5/)

Performance at the New York Armory (right by the stop where I got off for work this summer!) in Ernesto Neto’s installation, anthropodino. 
Mar 13

Performance at the New York Armory (right by the stop where I got off for work this summer!) in Ernesto Neto’s installation, anthropodino

Mar 11

Spirit animal: FOUND.