Tag: life
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On Rape and Commodity
i’Lux Alptraum· Authorship unclear. Published by Facebook on Maggie Beaumont’s page on 15 October 2025 as a memory from 7 years ago. I always forget that this is not common knowledge, so here goes: In the historical sense, rape is a crime that men do to other men, specifically, by damaging/stealing another man’s property (yes,…
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Story from an office wall, ca. 1978
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 If you are unhappy … Once upon a time, there was a non-conforming sparrow that decided not to fly south for the winter. However, soon the weather turned so cold that he reluctantly started to fly south. In a short time, ice began to form on his…
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On prayerbooks …
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 Reflections and memories Sometime in my 6-to-8-years-old timeframe, or at most a year later, I was drawn in envy to the missals and other holy books carried by some other girls of my acquaintance — possibly the same ones who had those mysterious (and forbidden to me)…
