jari m

Category: Art & Review

  • this week, in open letters to the world

    Read under the cut :)

  • Haikus to Freedom

    I was reading the Inquirer a week and a day ago, and I thought of airing some opinions on Philippine news. With some poetry. I. to think of the world quite odd: easy to clamor easy to forget The Philippines is perhaps one of the few “democratic” countries where a corrupt president –overthrown by a mass…

  • Look Up – Spoken Word by Gary Turk

    My sister linked this video to me, and for a crystal clear moment I felt my life change.

  • I’ve known many people now lost to the sea Not unvigilant, or unskilled But human. and as such inherently weak to this force of nature

  • In No Regrets, women writers talk about what it was like to read literature’s “midcentury misogynists.”

    This isn’t just about the books. When young women read the hypermasculine literary canon—what Emily Gould calls the “midcentury misogynists,” staffed with the likes of Roth, Mailer, and Miller—their discomfort is punctuated by the knowledge that their male peers are reading these books, identifying with them, and acting out their perspectives and narratives. These writers…

  • This Girl Gets Told After Saying Disney Makes All Princesses White On Purpose.. | SF Globe

    This Girl Gets Told After Saying Disney Makes All Princesses White On Purpose.. | SF Globe. Hi. A response to the person who had the gall to tumblr shout and be all righteous. The sensitive issue (hello, minority oppression) requires a lot more than several lines to address, if you really think you’re right about…

  • / dream?

    There is nothing more important than learning how to dream. We are mortal. We die. And the question of what we do with our time has been the question since the dawn of humankind. And the answer? We can suffer all the injustices of life passively, swallow the norms and spit them back out with…

  • / time and humanity

    Jeanne Calment lived to be 122. She saw the turn of a century, lived through two world wars, witnessed the changing of republics, the invention of the computer and the shift from silent to animated to blockbuster films. She met Vincent Van Gogh and breathed from the same world as me as I was born…

  • Pen and Pencils: New art style?

    I started a #TenMinuteStudyBreak from Physics 51 and ended up with this in my reviewer and a total loss of one hour. Sigh. Note to self: when you listen to a motivating playlist, productivity will happen. But not necessarily the studying kind.