Reads tagged with “LGBT”

The Strength of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy
“I believe in… an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet.”

Losing Love, Finding Love, and How to Live with the Fragility of It All
“What an astonishing thing it is to find something. Children, who excel at it — chiefly because the world is still so new to them that they can’t help but notice it — understand this, and automatically delight in it.”

September 28, 1951: Alan Turing, the World’s First Digital Music, and the Poetry of Possibility
A hoot, a hummingbird, and an electronic hymn for the modern world.

A Love Story on Two Wheels: The Life and Legacy of Pioneering Photographer and Bicyclist Alice Austen
Quiet courage and improbable redemption under the sycamore tree.

How Pythagoras and Sappho Radicalized Music and Revolutionized the World
The story of the invention of the love song, the world’s first algorithm, and the mathematics of transcendence.

The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life
“One who has dared to be gloriously good and gloriously bad in one life. No Limbo for her. Rather let life itself grow living monuments out of trees and living words so that death can never take from our half-lives this radiant living that was lived among us.”

Funeral March for the First Cosmonaut: Artist, Poet, and Philosopher Etel Adnan’s Stunning Painted Poem About Life, Death, Loneliness, and Our Cosmic Redemption
“In the beginning was the white page. In the beginning was the Sufi in orbit… In the beginning was color. In the beginning was music.”

Perfect Flowers: Adventures in Nature’s Nonbinary Botany, with a Side of Emily Dickinson
Rewilding the landscape of possibility for the poetry of being.

James Baldwin on Love, the Illusion of Choice, and the Paradox of Freedom
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

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