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Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

by Jessica Fern

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Filthy Animals

by Brandon Taylor

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Elsewhere

by Alexis Schaitkin (Goodreads Author)

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Cole’s Quotes

“Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.”
― Emma Goldman

tags: anarchism, political-philosophy, revolution

177 likes

“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.”
― Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking

tags: irony

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“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

tags: community, creation, healing, health, life, loneliness

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“An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.”
― Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking

tags: drugs, poetry, substances

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“We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation—and born into the stories told of each of these.”
― Lewis Hyde, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

tags: community, stories

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