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Sun, 19 May 2013 12:40:38 +0100

unapologeticfatty: myqueersexytime: Sometimes I feel ugly. Sometimes I hate my weight. Sometimes I...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:35:23 +0100

myqueersexytime:

Sometimes I feel ugly. Sometimes I hate my weight. Sometimes I just hate myself.

And that’s okay. I embrace those negative feelings.

Body positivity is a process.

Body positivity is not a linear journey.

I say this often but it’s important to say and hear.

Body positivity is not a linear journey. Some days will be easier than others.

You can feel wonderful one day and shameful the next, all of these feelings are valid and normal and acceptable.

niallshit: if u feel sad right now look at this bunny eating a flower

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:32:25 +0100

niallshit:

if u feel sad right now look at this bunny eating a flower

jhameia: bitchouttahell: cleophatrajones: yannickbrouwer: Thi...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:31:36 +0100

jhameia:

bitchouttahell:

cleophatrajones:

yannickbrouwer:

This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis

How glorious is this?! Upcycling at its finest…

I have a couple bracelets made from the same stuff! yay

The company’s name is Ocean Sole: http://www.ocean-sole.com/

x 11:43am, 19.05.13 x seven months x I still remember the lines you traced across my back

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:45:26 +0100

x 11:43am, 19.05.13
x seven months
x I still remember the lines you traced across my back

"Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:26:47 +0100

“Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later – because I did not belong there, did not come from there – but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.”

- “Goodbye To All That,” Joan Didion (via commovente)

iamayoungfeminist: SO ACCURATE OMG So over millennial hate....

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:02:46 +0100

iamayoungfeminist:

SO ACCURATE OMG

So over millennial hate. Fuck off. I love my generation.

"I felt a sour taste in my throat, the one that immediately precedes my gag reflex, when I read the..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:56:36 +0100

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I felt a sour taste in my throat, the one that immediately precedes my gag reflex, when I read the NY Times piece about an immigration official who forced a woman to perform oral sex on him in exchange for her green card.

After the 22-year-old Colombian woman, whose name has not been released, went in for an interview for her green card with immigration agent Isaac Baichu in December of 2007, she started receiving phone calls from Baichu demanding sex. When he called her to meet in a restaurant’s parking lot in Queens, she was prescient enough to stash her cell phone, which was recording their conversation, in her purse. Her cell phone captured Baichu asking for sex “one or two times. That’s all. You get your green card. You won’t have to see me anymore.” Later in the tape there’s a minute-long pause when, the reporter writes, the young woman “yielded to his demand out of fear that he would use his authority against her.” The Times posted an audio clip of the woman’s recording in the web edition of the article (yay, multimedia?).

The sexual exploitation of immigrant women is nothing new, but there’s a very specific pattern of abuse tied to this case. News of a Miami ICE agent who made a pit stop at his home so he could rape the Haitian woman he was responsible for transporting to detention and reports of sexual assault on a woman held at the Don T. Hutto Family Residential Facility, a de facto prison in Texas for families awaiting immigrations processing, come to mind. Similar scandals have been reported in Maryland (Deputy Lloyd W. Miner this year), California (Agent Eddie Miranda in 2007) and Georgia (Agent Kelvin R. Owens in 2005).

”

- Anti-Immigrant Fever Ignites Violence Against Women

Julianne Hing

From RaceWire, 3/27/08

(via whitedenial-ontrial)

See also:

Sheriff Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ. He has physically assaulted pregnant immigrant women, forced them to sleep in soiled sheets by denying them sanitary products for menstruation, and notoriously shackled detained immigrants to the bed as they gave birth.

(via le-kif-kif)

"I’d woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist."

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:45:39 +0100

““I’d woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist.””

- The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa (via delicateswans)

iloveretro: Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (1977)

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:35:29 +0100

iloveretro:

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (1977)

"‘Edgy’ teenage boys preface their online presence with ‘I don’t care if you’re offended’ as if it..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:43:21 +0100

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‘Edgy’ teenage boys preface their online presence with ‘I don’t care if you’re offended’ as if it rails against all that society stands for. Dead baby jokes, rape jokes, beating women jokes, racist jokes, homophobic jokes, holocaust jokes, transphobic jokes, and a host of other ‘material’ is wheeled out over sites like 4chan, Reddit, 9gag, and even Facebook (especially Facebook, with pages dedicated to LAD culture and ‘edgy’ young men’s humour), as though those words are ammo against society by the number of people who say ‘that’s not okay’ or ‘that’s not funny.’

The tragic irony comes from the inarguable fact that such jokes and comments do nothing to transgress society at large. They are anything but radical, or against the grain. They normalise, reinforce and capitalise on expectations and inequalities upon which modern western society are built on. The people who are offended, the ones who call out the bigotry are accused of being ‘silencers,’ as though they are oppressors in cahoots with society to stop our brave white teenage boys from making their edgy jokes, when in reality, their calling out against bigotry is the most transgressive and radical act of any of these exchanges.

Now, when a woman, a person of colour, a trans* person, a person of any other sexuality than straight or another marginalised person of society offends a white, straight, cis man – THAT is a transgressive act. That is when offence becomes radical and political. But if you’re a white boy feeling edgy because you’ve made a joke about Rhianna getting beaten by Chris Brown, you can shut up and go sit in a corner.

”

- (via glitterr—bitch)

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Sat, 18 May 2013 21:25:49 +0100

"The question why I would LET Willow cut her hair. First the LET must be challenged. This is a world..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:08:52 +0100

“The question why I would LET Willow cut her hair. First the LET must be challenged. This is a world where women, girls are constantly reminded that they don’t belong to themselves; that their bodies are not their own, nor their power or self determination. I made a promise to endow my little girl with the power to always know that her body, spirit and her mind are HER domain. Willow cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth is not measured by the length of her hair. It’s also a statement that claims that even little girls have the RIGHT to own themselves and should not be a slave to even their mother’s deepest insecurities, hopes and desires. Even little girls should not be a slave to the preconceived ideas of what a culture believes a little girl should be.”

- Jada Pinkett Smith (via princesslilitu)

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Sat, 18 May 2013 18:51:48 +0100

"Get out of bed, make a hot drink and go outside. You owe yourself that much. Maybe you still cry in..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:34:49 +0100

“Get out of bed, make a hot drink and go outside. You owe yourself that much. Maybe you still cry in far too many public bathrooms, but I swear, you stay a few seconds less every time. Smile at strangers if it’s all you can do, know that life doesn’t start when the sun rises or the credits roll but when you decide it’s time to go after what you deserve, and you deserve everything because we are alive both only once and a million times every day and every minute is something new to learn and someone new to love, and if it all crashes and burns as it so often does cling on to hope through it all and don’t ever ever ever let it go. Start your life again whenever you need to. Repeat after me: it is not yet the end. It is not yet the end. It is not yet the end.”

- A greater reality. (via floatingmemories)

lotsalipstick: norsegays: astrolope: People being angry about...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:17:25 +0100

lotsalipstick:

norsegays:

astrolope:

People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.

I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.

A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?

It is a big deal because i’m a transman.

It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.

Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.

At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.

At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.

TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.

even more reasons to love target

"If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness."

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:43:10 +0100

““If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.””

- A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner (via onlytheilluminatisurvive)

(source)

thewastedgeneration: I think this is the most relevant thing...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:25:54 +0100

thewastedgeneration:

I think this is the most relevant thing I’ve seen on Tumblr

"Please. You are not being silenced. There is no “thought police.” Your freedom of speech is firmly..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:08:51 +0100

“Please. You are not being silenced. There is no “thought police.” Your freedom of speech is firmly intact. You are a member of the single most powerful political bloc on earth. Your voices and your perspectives saturate nearly all media. You are fine.”

- An Open Letter to White Male Comedians (via oerbayunfangs)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 18:51:49 +0100