Down With Gravity

im-a-kittycat: “So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:38:18 -0400

“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”

- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl

The Waffimus and I once more.

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:48:26 -0400

The Waffimus and I once more.

fireseason: Quartet (2012) Maggie Smith, no other...

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:44:00 -0400

fireseason:

Quartet (2012)

Maggie Smith, no other reason necessary.

"It’s said it takes seven years to grow completely new skin cells. To think, this year I will..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:08:22 -0400

“It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.

To think, this year I will grow
into a body you never will

have touched.”

- Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, December 21st, 2002 (via aswiftlytiltingplanet)

This is so perfect. In a way, he never touched me.

(via devildogsmonkey)

<3

(via fuckyeahfeminists)

This is so beautiful!

(via connoririshwright)

tentacruels: olgie13: “This gorgeous Hälssen & Lyon...

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:05:27 -0400

tentacruels:

olgie13:

“This gorgeous Hälssen & Lyon calendar is made of brewable tea. Each day is made of fine pressed wafer thin tea leaves.”

oh my.

Photo

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:07:44 -0400

My guy and I today.

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:34:00 -0400

My guy and I today.

Photo

Fri, 10 May 2013 20:45:32 -0400

"Sadness suits me. I savor it the way some people savor good food. Sleep or sadness, it’s all the..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:42:58 -0400

“Sadness suits me. I savor it the way some people savor good food. Sleep or sadness, it’s all the same to me. Come get me. Like an ocean hungry to lap you up.”

- Sandra Cisneros in Caramelo (via catrinabonita)

lazybohemian: mmm

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:37:09 -0400

lazybohemian:

mmm

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

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:19:13 -0400

““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 notclarissa)

"I noticed myself wishing that nothing loved me so I wouldn’t feel obligated to keep existing"

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:07:18 -0400

“I noticed myself wishing that nothing loved me so I wouldn’t feel obligated to keep existing”

- Hyperbole and a Half- Depression Part Two (via disgustinghuman)

Take me here

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:23:35 -0400

Take me here

DCbaby

Fri, 03 May 2013 13:14:39 -0400

DCbaby

Why I will keep posting "selfies"

Fri, 03 May 2013 13:13:00 -0400

I feel so vein sometimes, posting “selfies.” I tease myself to make myself feel better about falling prey to the narcism of our generation. But then other times it makes perfect sense to me. I am just affirming the confidence I have in myself, in the beauty that we all do possess, during a time when the world thinks they can define beauty.

So really, every picture I take of myself and post online is like a “fuck off” to every other photo I see telling me I should look some other way.

And that ain’t nothing to be ashamed of.

Photo

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:19:46 -0400

thepepperinyourpot: previouslysane: “Do you really want to get...

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:09:05 -0400

thepepperinyourpot:

previouslysane:

“Do you really want to get that tattoo?

“yes.”

“But what about when you’re older? Aren’t you worried about what you’re gonna look like?”

“No. I’m gonna look like me.”

I’m going to look amazing.

Yes.

"Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:07:06 -0400

“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”

- Edgar Allan Poe (via incenses)

Classic

socialismartnature: brofiling: white privilege radically...

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:18:14 -0400

socialismartnature:

brofiling:

white privilege radically changes the appearance of Tsarnaev bros

This is how brofiling actually works in real life. The Week Magazine ran with this image as their cover sketch.

Just so it is said, clearly and unambiguously: the Tsarnaev brothers are white guys. They are white. The FBI’s own wanted poster for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lists his race as “white”, but you would never know it from the cover image on The Week.

Hold up the cover to someone else, and ask them how many white people they can see on the cover. Chances are they will identify Gabby Giffords on the top left and the image of the Boston policemen (all white men) on the top right, but how about those two guys in the center? Nope, not a chance that anyone would say these caricatures look white.

Why? Because in addition to being white they are also “Muslim”, which is the current dehumanizing “Other” that whiteness has constructed as a sanctioned target for violence in US popular culture.

This is how white privilege works in media representations and everyday life: when the criminal suspects are demonstrably white men, seize upon any aspect of difference and magnify it such that they become Othered, non-white, and menacing. If it is too hard to do so, simply dismiss them as aberrations and isolated cases of insanity. This is also how white culture, specifically the process of whiteness in conjunction with white privilege, portrays several non-white identities, including those that are now considered white but at one time were decidedly not so. For example, see here for how the Irish were depicted as violent apes or lazy drunks in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

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how the media creates perceptions of race and “whiteness.” also, i wouldn’t necessarily say that “white privilege” changed the appearance of the Tsarnaev brothers, but rather simply white racism.

Zayum, you guys. I definitely missed this “I Can’t...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:36:11 -0400

Zayum, you guys. I definitely missed this “I Can’t Help It” cover by Esperanza Spalding that happens to be really gay and really cute.