His list of favorite poets includes “myself” and his favorite occupation is “reading my own sonnets”.
Oh Oscar.
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Literary Lust: Oscar Wilde's letters to Lord Alfred Douglas
The two letters that were brought to light in the Wilde vs. Queensberry trial
January 1893, Babbacombe CliffMy Own Boy,
Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of…
All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.I wrote this for you (via youwerehere)
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Wearing a hijab isn’t inherently liberating – but neither is baring one’s breasts. What is liberating is being able to choose either of these things. It’s pretty ludicrous to think that oppression is somehow proportional to how covered or uncovered someone’s body is. Both sides of this argument present a shallow understanding of women’s empowerment, which only drowns out the substantive challenges facing all women – issues that cannot be encapsulated in a debate about a piece of fabric.
Sara Yasin, Is the Hijab Worth Fighting Over?
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