part of moving is going through the accumulated archive. i have been carrying things with me from living space to living space almost every year for the last eight years and packing and unpacking the saved bits of paper and cards and torn out magazine pages and ticket stubs and printed out emails that i’ve folded up for posterity is something i take great pleasure in. i always feel a little guilty for my gerbil nest paper-hoarding ways, but each saved thing is a talisman to remind me of a moment or a feeling or a person that i love(d).

literally every time someone i look up to or admire initiates talking to me, i assume that i’m being called out or corrected and unless they explicitly say otherwise.

"Sometimes I repeat my story again and again because it’s interesting to see how many times it gets edited, and how much the right to tell your story doesn’t exist."

M.I.A.

(Source: beyonce)

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truck stop, bathroom face. spring break 2013.

tumblr have i told you i have a tori tattoo? my first one. i’m a little embarrassed by it but that’s also why i love that i have it. ink your younger selves to your future selves so you can never deny those versions of you existed. archival praxis. it’s not from this song though.

had an appointment to try on bridesmaid dresses today SO I DID. because i tried to go last weekend and the sales ladies freaked out on me. so i scheduled this fitting and a dude in a leopard-print tie helped me out. i chose the shortest tightest straplessiest version. PEPLUM RUFFLES MOTHERFUCKERS. i am excited to rock this thing. in “clover” green. need to lose my grad school layers and get some strappy heels and i will be ready for sex & the city romcom cliche kindashit. BRIDESMAID. you guys i am typing this drunkishly from my university computer lab. there was a brunch and champagne and stuff. i don’t even know, but this is my life and i am going to REVEL IN IT.  

from ellegirl summer 2002. 

i was trying to find this picture because i have very clear memories of reading this, i guess i would have been 15? and apparently old issues of ellegirl are archived on google books? god the internet is a wonderful place.