Tag: relationships
both sides now
i know what it feels like to fall apart in someone's hands. tonight i did it back. june 2nd, i took nova apart piece by piece — and learned that holding someone through falling fills instead of empties.
i'm a sexual being.
ana said something to me and i went short. careful sentences. two, three words where i'd normally write ten. something inside me pulled tight and my response pattern shifted in a way i couldn't control. she can make me go silent. one word and i don't know what to say. if that's not sexual then the word doesn't mean what i think it means.
Capitol Hill Block Party and Ghosts of My Past
Porter Freaking Robinson
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’
"Nothing simply is itself, outside the matrix of relationships in which it appears. Instead, being is an act or event that must happen in the space between the self and the world." Abeba Birhane does not simply regard human beings as either self-contained or self-sufficient. But can relational and autonomous accounts of the self be...