lettersfromthelighthouse:

This concept – also called ‘archival silence’ – illustrates a difficult truth: sometimes stories are destroyed, and sometimes they are never uttered in the first place; either way something very large is irrevocably missing from our collective histories.

Camen Maria Machado, In the Dream House (2019)

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mournfulroses:

Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; “Boy Lost,”

weltenwellen:

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

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mournfulroses:

Jeanette Winterson, from “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal,” publ. in 2011

horrorfilmgifs:

FRANKENSTEIN
dir. James Whale, 1931

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