Voices on Addiction: Safety in a Blue Light
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...moreAddiction steals your integrity. Your freedom, too.
...moreFear is real. Pain is real. Loss is real. Suffering is real.
...moreI’m saying people can be imperfect and still be remembered as beautiful.
...moreAs long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreYou try to pass yourself off as a rock and the water just laughs. You try anyway.
...moreShe never stopped, a bee buzzing from flower to flower to flower, collecting all the sweetness she could.
...moreThe world is a merry-go-round, a sawed-off shotgun, a ticker tape. There’s no struggle now. There’s only darkness, breathlessness, exit—
...moreJennifer Steil reflects on the death and life of her ex and comes to an unexpected understanding of addiction and the limits of responsibility.
...moreIf you had to sum up your undergraduate thesis in one sentence, what would you say? That’s the question posed by the Tumblr Lol My Thesis, and the answers are…pretty amazing. Recent examples include “Italian has 23 mutually unintelligible dialects, not including hand gestures” (Romance linguistics, University of Washington), “Computers will do what you tell […]
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