When I Fed The Pigs And Two Of Them Got To Scrapping Over An Old Soft Onion, I Thought: Thats Love. Love

“When I fed the pigs and two of them got to scrapping over an old soft onion, I thought: that’s love. Love is eating. Love is a snarling pig snout and long tusks. Love is the colour of blood. Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.”

— Catherynne M. Valente, from Six Gun Snow White (via lifeinpoetry)

“Inexorable frankness but painfully obtained. You have moments of reserve, of feeling you are violating sacred intimacies, the secret life of your own being as well as of others. At moments I am willing to help you because of our common objective passion for truth. But it hurts, Henry, it hurts.”

— Anaïs Nin, from Henry & June; A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932–1934)

Fear works to align bodily and social space: it works to enable some bodies to inhabit and move in public space through restricting the mobility of other bodies to spaces that are enclosed or contained… It is the regulation of bodies in space through the uneven distribution of fear which allows spaces to become territories, claimed as rights by some bodies and not others.

Ahmed, S (2015) The Cultural Politics of Emotion. New York: Routledge (via muybarra)

What might we learn and how might our behaviour change if we discarded the model of agency founded on mobility, autonomy and sovereignty, and adopted the model that trees offer us: rootedness, relationality, dialogue and responsiveness?

What can an embodied history of trees teach us about life? (via probablyasocialecologist)

Whether you are alive or not makes all the difference. In Spanish, fish are peces till dead; then, pescados—one syllable from animal to meal, from subject to object. In death we’re reduced to the body’s usefulness: cow becomes meat, human becomes organ. But a dog remains un perro. A child can be nothing but a child.

Alicia Catt, “WHEN I PUT BLUEBEARD’S KEYS IN MY POCKET THEY STAIN MY DRESS & I HOPE YOU DON’T NOTICE,” published in Toad (via bluebeardsbride)