The giant cat popped less than 24 hours after going up with probably less than 10 hours up time. Hubris? I’ve got special tape ordered to try and repair it but this is super disheartening. (Tears aren’t covered by the warranty.)

πŸ“šπŸ’¬πŸ“ “No woman is writing too much. Women need to write more. We need to know what it feels like to be submerged in language, carried away by the passion of writing words.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

πŸ“šπŸ’¬πŸ“ “…we must not let the commercial success of writing by women lead us to believe that the struggle to create and maintain a culture where women’s words will be heard and valued is over. That struggle continues.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

πŸ“šπŸ’¬πŸ“ “Even in academic circles it has become much more fashionable to do work on gender than work that is distinctly feminist in outlook.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

It’s spooky season, so I’m living my best life with a skeleton glow necklace.

A white woman wears a skeleton-shaped necklace with a white glow stick inside it.

πŸ“šπŸ’¬πŸ“ “…we all should feel utterly free to write as much as time, grace, and the imagination allow.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

πŸ“šπŸ’¬πŸ“ “Since I have never tried to make a living as a writer, I have had the extreme good fortune to be able to write only what I want to write when I want to write it.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

πŸ“šπŸ’¬πŸ“ “No writer writes often or well if they despair of ever having an audience for their work.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

πŸ“šπŸ’¬πŸ“ “Since my interests are broad and wide-ranging, I am not surprised that there is an endless flow of ideas in my mind.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work