May 2011
17 posts
Social anxiety or how I stopped worrying and...
So, I have social anxiety. At times crippling, always distressing, social anxiety. I hide it pretty well when it comes to my professional life, and I’m able to take myself to the store, or sometimes go to a party or show or lecture. I am not incapable of ever leaving my house.
But tonight, I am laying here in my bed and thinking about how I’ve been going through a very big event in...
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It could be normal, but it isn't quite.
I am turning off the world, turning on some Suzanne Vega, and re-reading 1984.
Dear middle school self- how did you not know you were so cool? I wish you could have known then how awesome you were. You were weird and artsy and that was amazing! I am sorry you had a rough time, but I am so glad that none of your attempts to conform ever stuck. I am proud of you for making it through when no one...
“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large...”
– Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power, Sandra Lee Bartky (via thefullnilson)
Today at lunch Roberta and I compared our hairy pits. It was excellent.
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(via marenge) (via jessiedress)
Oh to be back in my postmodern feminist philosophy class with my hot... 