“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
-Paul Cézanne
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I probably don’t like reality. I don’t like people very much. People bring lots of trouble, don’t you think? Because I don’t like reality, I sometimes just want to fade away.
What we’re lacking in academia is a paradigm of mutual support and intolerance to cruelty in all its racist, sexist, and just plain hateful forms. We say the words – we claim to believe in mentoring and nurturing and community and collaboration – but words are not actions and the reality is we collectively find it easier to let people build up thick layers of scars instead of putting an end to the behaviors that cut at the hearts of our every community member.
[…] Today, there are women all over our field watching this and asking, “Does my story have to make Buzzfeed before someone will stand by me?” Stand by them. Support them. And most importantly, start the discussions with your colleagues that are needed to fight for them.
I didn’t fall in love with you.
I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way.
I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we’d choose anyway.
And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you
War and art will never exist together. Artists are already in a war with themselves, within themselves. Their weapon is their talent, and they make others bleed by feeling. Wars rely on people freezing their feelings and not making empathy. So yes, make art, because it kills wars.
