 Hey readers, Welcome back to Tuesday's Takeaways! This week our Top Quotes are about dreams! Based on this blog post's title, can you tell what we thought about asking? Here it is:
"I dreamt of castles in the sky Of having all the things that mattered" -Chaya Nachum, I took the shards "Gasping, I awaken, pulling myself out of the inky black, out of the landscape of my dreams. The fear, the emotion lingers, Even as the memory slips and fades away…" -Naveera Arif, Nightmare "Mangled limbs and mutilated dreams: Who is she that convinced you that you were free? Comatose but you woke me in my sleep. Winding through those long dark curtains, Haunted you and haunted me." -Nicole Solis-Ramirez, Julio "I dream Of an escape from the grainy air Clutching my aura, as the voices inside my head Constantly cry for help Grasping for a way out" -Saelly Alvarez, BEYOND THE CLOUDS "Silence. How long must we scream? "The diadem of a dream that’s long since gone under Is all we have left to cry about But you still don’t see." -Bethany Friedmann, SILENCE "She created Her own universe In her head. She lived in fantasies, She drafted herself." -Ana Khutsianidze, LOST IN HER OWN UNIVERSE "My dreams are too big to fit onto the main road. I’m paving my own zone, unfold my destiny slow and steady" -Anya Supernova, Taking the scenic route And now...
If you are feeling stuck, recognizing that you are in a dream (aka lucid dreaming) can help get out of nightmarish situations because this type of dreaming is more controlled. However, achieving a state of lucid dreaming is not always easy and takes a lot of practice. Some other tips to escape a nightmare include testing actions that are physically impossible (sticking your hand through a wall, time traveling, flying, etc.) or triggering an adrenaline rush by doing an exciting action (jumping off a cliff, etc.) Make sure to stay tuned for next week's blog! <3 -Mic and Gina
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 Hey readers, Welcome back to Tuesday's Takeaways! This week our Top Quotes are about colors! You may recall that we already did a blog on colors last semester, but I'm fascinated by the ways colors breathe life into writing, and since today is national color day it seemed like a fitting blog post!
"She keeps her dark sorrows Consumed in a black hole" -Noor Ahmad, Little Did He Know "I then recall, we possess a fickle heart that pumps, blood red that is forever at the whims of time, misled." -Javeri Riveros, After (Life) “Let’s not sell the car anymore, Antic and Orange, Can we save it for VINTAGE?” -Hripsime Tumanyan, Pure Mottos “You’re probably sitting reading One of those long books That I only realized you finish Once you write it on a piece of yellow paper Fold it twice And put it on my palm “This one’s a good one” -Hafsa Fatima, Stained Pages “I’m standing in a darkness of green, distraught. A maze ahead. Decisions. Decisions” -Megan Torres, A Tour Of My Girlfriend “What is the darkness that dwells in each and every blue veined heart?” -Anosha Arshad, She's Already In You “And as I traced small, purple, crooked hearts onto construction paper and laced them together with cheap plastic ribbons, I thought bitterly of what brought me here.” -Shalhevet Soed, The Chosen Seldom Come “It’s been years since you put me in this hospital, these four white walls caving in on me” -Shannon Addonizio, Hospital of Lies And now...
White and black! Technically, according to physics, a color is defined as visible light with a specific wavelength. Since white is every single light combined and black is the absence of light, neither of them bear a specific wavelength. Stay tuned for our post next week and be sure to attend our SPOOKY SOIREE this Thursday! <3 -Mic and Gina  Hey readers, Welcome back to Tuesday's Takeaways! This week our Top Quotes are about space and celestial bodies!
"How can our days be counted? By the passages of sun and moon In obverse planes of light and darks Like two lovers joined but never meeting" -Moshe D, Storm "When I grow up I want to be an astronaut but Mr. Fields says that the stars are far away as light years, too far for me to even comprehend the distance between the tail of the big Dipper and the head." -Yuliya Vayner, How Far Away The Stars Are? "But alas, the Moon is so distant And near the Stars that are so bright" -Jason Sajan, The Crow and the Moon "You only gasp at stars at night when timing brings you together No stale romantic searches for them in the day-time." -Samantha Paucar, Nice Enough Girl and Her Cheap Tears "Moon and sun are level in this tranquil peace we fleetingly revel the sky halved by the dyadic league one inspiring wakefulness, the other fatigue" -Autumn Aldain, Solace And now...
Yes, they are! They'll be there a long time, as there isn't much to disturb them like wind or rain like there would be on earth! Happy Holidays everyone! Stay tuned for our post next week about colors! <3 -Mic and Gina  Hey readers, Welcome back to Tuesday's Takeaways! because National Coming Out Day is this week, this week our Top Quotes are about some of the experiences LGBTQ+ individuals face while being in the closet.
Though America has made big strides in its acknowledgement and treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals, there is still a lot more to be done before we can say there is fair and equal treatment for all. By many people and many governments, LGBTQ+ individuals are seen as: "a people so silenced so disregarded they are believed not to exist." -Oriya Abed, Whose Silence? These larger groups still discriminate, harass, silence and murder members of the community. Many facing such discrimination begin to develop a sense of hopelessness: "I dream for many things Love, acceptance, bliss I can never attain these Why do I dream" -Avery Lieberman, Why Do I Dream? Forced to hide their identities, being told that they are "sin" or some kind of "evil darkness"... They have been pushed into what is known as the "closet". "Telling me this place is safe And that my shadows are Hiding somewhere in the darkness as well." -Wyatt Nox, My Dark Knight Activists who have witnessed the time-and-time-again failure of pro-LGBTQ legislation say: "How long must we scream? The diadem of a dream that’s long since gone under Is all we have left to cry about" -Bethany Friedmann, Silence nevertheless, they are resilient, proclaiming: "We dance in your shadows We persevere and try our best to win the fight" -Lawra Gourgue, Your Home, Not Ours We hope that in the coming years, no longer will LGBTQ+ identities be shunned, "Kept there within the silence Riding on the atmosphere Until it hangs low Like a heavy blanket Weighed down on the shoulders of its occupants." -Shionodo, A Quiet Room... Instead, intersectional activism will have attained equal and equitable treatment of all, the bigotry left in the dust of the past. "Through the slits in the door, some rays of lights come in Making me believe that there is some hope when I come out" -Stephanie Calderon Vasquez, Is it Okay? And now...
NCOD was founded in 1988 in the U.S. based on the feminist liberation idea of "the personal being political". A basic form of activism was coming out to family and friends. The foundational belief that homophobia thrives in an atmosphere of silence was elucidated by a famous quote of Robert Eichberg's, one of the founders of National Coming out Day. "Most people think they don't know anyone gay or lesbian, and in fact, everybody does. It is imperative that we come out and let people know who we are and disabuse them of their fears and stereotypes." Additionally, on Thursday, October 10th, the LGBTQ Center on Brooklyn College's campus is hosting a day-long event for LGBTQ+ identifying people as well as allies, so be sure to come by the Penthouse of the Student Center this Thursday at any point from 11 am to 9:30 pm! Stay tuned for our post next week! <3 -Mic and Gina  Hey readers, Welcome back to Tuesday's Takeaways! This week our Top Quotes are about rain!
Her heart tremored to the pulse the rain created. Her eyes closed as she at last became one with the earth. When the sky cried, she cried. -ramsey, Europe After Rain The rain suddenly changed from calming to storming. It was black as night and it had no face. -Jessica Drigun-Lara, August 22, 2013 Let’s hum to this As we dance in the rain And get lost In each other’s eyes again -Narline Borno, Je Te Veux I opened the windows all the way because I wanted to stare earth’s magic in the eye. I put out my hand to catch the rain drops. The crackle of thunder crackled my soul. I wanted more. -Zainab Iqbal, Thunder And now...
Yes, there is a name for people who love rain! Pluviophile! The more ya know. Happy Holidays everyone! Stay tuned for our post next week in honor of National Coming out Day! <3 -Mic and Gina |
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