The Severed Branch

samples from snowflakeangelbutterfly

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Aug 09, 2024

hello!

if you haven’t had a chance yet to take a peak at my new blog, snowflakeangelbutterfly.substack.com, i hope you will enjoy these samples below!

thank you!!

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🇵🇸 palestinian rights are absolute 🇵🇸

there is much that bothers me in the discourse about palestine: the worst of it coldly justifies the dehumanized position in which the zionist project keeps the palestinians. but nothing can justify the denial of basic human rights which palestinians face. nothing. there is no number of heads that hamas could chop off, and there is no number of votes th…

a year ago · 1 like · Andrew Jelinek

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💖 loved for your mere existence 8/5 💖

when i was reading the novel gilead by marylinne robinson, this line, written from a father to his son, stopped me dead in my tracks and forced me to put the book down…

a year ago · 1 like · Andrew Jelinek

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💖 my hair finally free 8/7 💖

having long hair while dressing up as a straight man felt like wanting a really cool tattoo but then being forced to get the design that your baptist grandpa sketched out as compensation for not letting you go to prom because dancing is evil. within the narrow bounds of cis heteronormative masculinity, i was always trying to find deliberate ways to make…

a year ago · Andrew Jelinek

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💖 emotions girlishly expressed 8/3 💖

emotions are physical. why shouldn’t we use touch and sight to connect with our feelings? we calm ourselves with music, so why shouldn’t listen to the soft jingle of our butterfly charms while we walk, or catch sight of a dangling amulet while we run our hands through our hair and down over our bare shoulders? we cry into our pillows, so why shouldn’t w…

a year ago · 1 like · Andrew Jelinek

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💖 reaction to blackouts by justin torres 8/5 💖

what struck me most when reading blackouts by justin torres was the way in which his novel demonstrates how strictly “scientific” interpretations of the human experience attempt to put sexuality, sex, and gender into tightly defined binary or trinary boxes. “scientists” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries began inventing new categories of “disease…

a year ago · 1 like · Andrew Jelinek

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