bell hooks
Apr. 9th, 2006 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iridiumthis came up in a conversation, and since the zine i read it in is packed into a box in a closet in California, i decided to go digging through my lj-archive to find it. it's a bell hooks quote, on openness and truth.
There are some folks for whom openness is not about the luxury of "will I choose to share this or that," but rather "will I survive - will I stay alive?" and openness is about how to be well, and telling the truth is about how to put the broken bits & pieces of the heart back together again. It is about being whole, being wholehearted.
There are some folks for whom openness is not about the luxury of "will I choose to share this or that," but rather "will I survive - will I stay alive?" and openness is about how to be well, and telling the truth is about how to put the broken bits & pieces of the heart back together again. It is about being whole, being wholehearted.
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Date: 2006-04-10 02:49 am (UTC)i haven't read really anything else of hers; that quote was on the back of a zine on awareness of and how to cope with sexual assault. i've been meaning to go look up something more by her, but haven't done it yet.
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Date: 2006-04-10 05:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-18 02:42 am (UTC)just because it's in my head at the moment -- there's a collection of a zine called "doris" that just came out recently as a full book. really, really good, if you like that kind of raw-experience-writing, and if you don't mind reading something that's all cut-and-paste formatting.