Illuminaughty

I'm not here. (they/ she)

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

[barathi @squarehaunting]

Imagine being at a university like Harvard or Oxford and using AI to think and write. The whole world is unpaywalled to you. The world's most beautiful and well stocked libraries are open to you. What a waste.

[Illuminaughty @dubexco1]

My bestie got into an ivy league. No one would ever be happier.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

just read a hair-raising line in an essay by Katherine Rundell—“you cannot remain in awe of the familiar, so the only way to maintain wonder is to learn”—and if you need incentive to keep learning, there it is. to stay curious is to stay fascinated.

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― Vita Sackville-West

[Cincinnati Zoo @CincinnatiZoo]

Fiona and Fritz are at it again! These two siblings love to roughhouse and play!

[Illuminaughty @dubexco1]

A goodbye smoke in an NYC balcony— kindness when it no longer mattered.

[Illuminaughty @dubexco1]

@absentpresences @southasiajsas Yooo I just read this and loved reading it omg

[Illuminaughty @dubexco1]

Somewhere between being put through all circles of hell in NYC, losing a grandparent, almost km$ in Goa, and having to withdraw admission from Cambridge this year, I managed to read 200 books between Jan and now. I hit a life goal with it. Here's what I've been reading!

[𝓛𝓾𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷 @luhaenten]

Edgar Allen Poe offers the single greatest excuse for all behaviours

[purr.in.ink @purrinink]

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[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

A reminder of how Anne Sexton quietly destroys us:

[𖧧 @mothintoflames]

mary oliver

[𖧧 @mothintoflames]

sylvia plath

[Nostos @NostosLit]

from the journals of sylvia plath

[sheelalipi sahana @absentpresences]

After 2 years of working on and with the most rewarding scholarship/scholars, here’s our Introduction to the Special Issue!
It lays out the salience of continuing to listen to women’s narratives in the age of global hegemony.