![]() ![]() I was facing single-hood for the first time in five years. Ended a long-term, bad relationship at the end of February (he cheated). Here's what five queer women had to say about their first date with someone of the same gender. These women describe their first date experiences as eye-opening, effortless, and even revolutionary, and each of these stories has lit my heart on fire in the best way.īut I'll let them take it from here. You try something new - something you thought might be cool or fun or interesting -and suddenly find yourself feeling happier and more at ease than you ever thought possible. ![]() This is what feels right." After reading or speaking with a handful of women about their first dates with the same gender, it sounds like they were definitely unexpected milestones (in the best possible sense).Īs a straight, cisgender woman, I certainly don't want to make any assumptions about what this is like, but I'd imagine it's similar to moving to a brand new city and immediately feeling you've come home. ![]() This is what I'm supposed to be doing with my life. I guess they're what some describe as "aha moments" - those instances at which everything feels flipped on its head and you stop and think, "Oh, this is who I am. ![]() I think, in all of our lives, we sometimes hit milestones that we never saw coming. ![]()
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![]() cummings Edward Hirsch Ellen Bass Emily Dickinson Faith Shearin Galway Kinnell Garrison Keillor Glen Hansard Gratitude grief J.D. Join 4,933 other subscribers Care to read through the archives? Care to read through the archives? Categories Categories Random Authors and Topics Alice Walker Ali Shapiro Anaïs Nin Andrea Gibson Anne Sexton Annie Dillard Billy Collins Brian Dean Powers Caitlyn Siehl Cats Charles Bukowski Cheryl Strayed Clementine von Radics Compassion czeslaw milosz Dana Gioia David Foster Wallace David Levithan David Shumate David Whyte death Dennis O'Driscoll depression dogs Dorianne Laux e.e. Visit Poets & Writers to listen to (and to read) this and three more pieces by Limón. “Mowing” by Ada Limón, from Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2015). I’m thinking about peopleĪnd trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree thanĪnything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine,Īnd how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden,ĭisappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. I’m standing there, and I’ve got the dog, and the man is mow. ![]() The light’s escaping the sky,Īnd there’s this place I like to stand, it’s before the rise, so I’m invis. He has 10,000 trees it’sĪ tree farm, so there are so many trees. It’s so small, it must take him days, so I imagine that he likes it. ![]() ![]() The man across the street is mowing 40 acres on a small lawn mower. ![]() ![]() ![]() First published as a booklet in 1990 by the People’s Education Society, the book is a touching account of some of Dr Ambedkar’s most distressing experiences with caste during his lifetime. ‘Waiting for a Visa’ is a 20-page autobiographical account written by Dr Ambedkar between 19. For complete annihilation of caste, the speech elaborates on the need to annihilate the Hindu scriptures which continued to strengthen the caste system in multiple ways. These are the parts where Dr Ambedkar succinctly lays out the fundamental problems of caste, foundations of the Hindu religion, the technicalities of Hindu texts and the way in which Brahminism operated in the Indian subcontinent. ![]() Written for the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal, a social reform organisation of Caste Hindus, the speech remained undelivered because of opposition from the members to parts of the speech. ![]() One of the most important social and political speeches written by Dr BR Ambedkar in 1936, ‘Annihilation of Caste’ is a gate-way to anti-caste literature and sets the stage for conversations that question a Hindu’s religious and cultural belief system. ![]() |