fearfortheflesh:

I’ve been coming up with stories to start telling people if they ask. Or if children ask.

Bear wresting. Shark attack. Mountain trolls. I don’t know…

I want to come up with something really creative.

Ideas? Yes? No?

My personal favorite is buffalo stampede. Alligator wrestling is a good one too.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Letty McHugh Life Raft - 2012, Soft Sculpture 8ft x 4ft

After a major personal trauma it appeared to me that physical survival is often valued over emotional wellbeing, and I was inspired to create survival equipment for emotional emergencies.

In Life Raft I wanted to create a safe space for someone to recover from emotional trauma. The soft sculpture is constructed from calico, duvets and pillows, and is scented with lavender, to comfort and soothe. 

I need this because of reasons.

iinventedeverything:

honestly, i never really understood the fascination w/gatsby. i don’t even feel enough for him to find his “tragedy” all that compelling.

he’s not an interesting dude. but i guess i have never respected ANY dude who get all panties in a bunch over women like daisy.

 bolded for truth

By Christian Hopkins, this very talented young photographer uses his photography as a true artistic outlet to help with his depression. The whole set of images are just stunning and really draw you in, a perfect example of how art can help a person having a difficult time to express themselves.

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fuckyeahfeminists:

An improvement on the NYC Teen Mom ads.

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Letter to “The Boston Herald”, 1924, quoted on Modris Eksteins’ “Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age”

http://www.amazon.com/Rites-Spring-Great-Birth-Modern/dp/0395937582

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exaltingmyconscience:

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WEIGHT:120
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ANY INFO PLEASE HELP ….CALL 718 773 7200 OR THE POLICE

Didn’t go on FB for the whole day but when I get on I see this… .smh. I’ve known her since my elementary school days, she was like a big sister to me! PLEASE REBLOG THIS!!!!  …Praying 

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lord-kitschener:

“Fiscally conservative but socially liberal” is a hip, trendy way of saying “I still think poor kids are being too grabby with this whole ‘wanting food’ thing, but I also like weed.”

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lastbutnotleast:

I’m in the FOX news green room, you guys. What do you even say to Meg Kelley?

“What’s it like at night when the demons visit you?”

(source: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-14-2006/barney-s-holiday-extravaganza — about two and a half minutes in)

thesoapboxist:

To Laura Murphy, the mother fighting to allow parents to opt their children out of reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved, due to its graphic content:

I’m glad Beloved gave your son nightmares. 

You’re waging a campaign against Beloved’s “scenes of bestiality, gang rape and an infant’s gruesome murder”, content you believe is too intense for teenagers, after your son Blake reported having night terrors after reading the book. You wrote into the Washington Post today to defend your efforts. You’re not a crazy book-burner, you say. You just want parents to have choices over whether their children are exposed to graphic content at school. Your son Blake is now a 19-year-old college freshman and he’s still disturbed about reading Beloved. 

“It was disgusting and gross,” he says. “It was hard for me to handle. I gave up on it.”

Here’s the problem, Laura and Blake. Beloved is not disgusting and gross—it’s a beautifully-written novel. The content in Beloved is disgusting and gross, because slavery is disgusting and gross. Slavery is horrific, and Blake, I’m glad that having to spend a few hours in a book and imagining the horrors of slavery was such a visceral experience, it gave you nightmares.

That’s exactly why you should be reading this book.

I hope all the little white children of America have nightmares after reading Beloved. I hope they’re sickened when they imagine the treatment of slaves. I hope they’re disgusted when they think about the legacy of slavery in this country, how people are still suffering from it, how they benefit from all the bloodshed. I hope Blake Murphy remembers those nightmares when someone puts a gun in his hand and calls him officer, when someone puts a briefcase in his hand and calls him boss, when someone puts a gavel in his hand and calls him judge. I hope Blake Murphy will always be disturbed by Beloved. He should be.         

The least your child can do, before growing up into his privileged white manhood, is spend a few hours between the covers of a book, imagining himself in the shoes of people struggling to recover from one of the most traumatic, violent, disturbing, and horrific eras of human history.

Because Laura, all the little black children of America have to learn to live with the legacy of slavery and its effects on their lives. We understand that slavery is disgusting and gross, hard for us to handle. But it’s not a book that we can put down and walk away from.

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gimpunk:

azeyleamintz:

gimpunk:

I’m looking at “POC Problems” and it’s amazing how many I relate to as a disabled person. Amazing because so many are issues that a majority of society is aware of POC dealing with and yet people remain so ignorant of issues of disability.

I think I’ll post some as an example of how similar different types of bigotry can be and how relatable we can be to able-boddied people.

“so many are issues that a majority of society is aware of POC dealing with”

No. Stop. Please. Just stop.

As a mentally disabled white cis woman, I’m asking you to please stop. “Disabled Problems” definitely can, need, and should be shared and discussed in a manner similar to “POC Problems,” but “POC Problems” are NOT something the “majority of society” is aware of, and it’s really gross to cross them out and insert other text over them, especially when there are many disabled people of color who don’t get to “choose” one set of problems over the other.

Please stop.

When an issue becomes a cliche joke, like black people all being good at sports, it is something that the majority of society is aware of (aware of, not understand) and these are the things I was referencing.

So… because there are lots of stereotypes about people of color, that means the majority of people are aware of the discrimination that people of color face? I… I just… Christ, I can’t even…

I am not saying these problems don’t exist, I’m saying they do in this context as well.

That might be your intent, but your method (and the reasoning behind the method) is problematic as hell.

As a person with an invisible disability you cannot know what being a visible minority goes through.

You’re right: I have white privilege and passing privilege; I cannot truly understand what visibly disabled people go through. But I’ve nowhere have I said that the discrimination, bigotry, and suffering you’re describing doesn’t exist. What I am saying is that you’re appropriating a conversation about the the discrimination, bigotry, and suffering people of color face to center the conversation on disabled people, implicitly minimizing “POC Problems” and erasing disabled POC (whether you intend to or not)

So, please stop.

I’ve said my piece. I’ve tried to “collect my own.” If you still don’t see the problem, there’s nothing more for me to say.

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gimpunk:

I’m looking at “POC Problems” and it’s amazing how many I relate to as a disabled person. Amazing because so many are issues that a majority of society is aware of POC dealing with and yet people remain so ignorant of issues of disability.

I think I’ll post some as an example of how similar different types of bigotry can be and how relatable we can be to able-boddied people.

“so many are issues that a majority of society is aware of POC dealing with”

No. Stop. Please. Just stop.

As a mentally disabled white cis woman, I’m asking you to please stop. “Disabled Problems” definitely can, need, and should be shared and discussed in a manner similar to “POC Problems,” but “POC Problems” are NOT something the “majority of society” is aware of, and it’s really gross to cross them out and insert other text over them, especially when there are many disabled people of color who don’t get to “choose” one set of problems over the other.

Please stop.