A Very Fine Girl

@afinegirl

Context: I grew up poor. My mom worked two jobs and my dad went to prison for selling drugs. My dad is the son of immigrants and my mom is Cherokee and Irish/Italian. I've had a job since I was 13. I've spent the last 15 years working in nonprofits to combat racism, sexism, poverty, addiction, and to provide access to people who are denied it. I'm the oldest of eight. I grimace a lot.

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Break's over.

Dear straight white upper-middle class friends who live in liberal bubbles and can't own your shit: own your shit. Own your disconnection from the core of the Democratic Party. Own your slactivism. Own your willingness to look the other way when confronted with corruption and half-measures. Own the pain and heartbreak that is caused by your deep empathy and recognize that a trump presidency is going to impact you significantly less than most people in this country. This is what I'm doing today. I'm diving in to my privilege and how disconnected I've become from where I'm from and who I've dedicated my life to supporting and empowering. Not everyone who voted for trump is a vile racist misogynistic piece of shit even though they voted for a vile racist misogynistic piece of shit. Of course, some are, but those aren't my people. And- my people voted for him too. We've got some hard conversations to have but we have to have them. And for the 6 friends who voted for trump that I haven't deleted yet and are considering commenting, don't. This is not your space. Remember, that I am a 36 year old woman who is trying to get pregnant and if that baby should have a severe disability or die inside my body, you've voted for someone who would force me to carry that baby to term. You've voted for a Vice President who thinks homosexuality is a disease. I'm not ready to talk to you about a damn thing.

thingstolovefor

Twitter deleted her thread. Reblog to save it. #Love it!

liberalsarecool

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Being old doesn’t excuse being a bigot, now or ever

I just want to have a nice day where I'm not bombarded by things that make me shoot fire out of my eyes.

#native #bitchno

Taking care of yourself.

I was listening to a podcast I love/hate on the way home and heard a murder victim described as someone who "takes care of herself". In the context they were specifically describing her body type which was extremely thin. And it made me laugh. My body type fluctuates between athletic and fat. It always has. And when I'm "taking care of myself" it can look either way. Sometimes I'm eating ice cream because ice cream is fucking delicious and sometimes I'm eating ice cream because it's actually feelings. Sometimes I go for long runs because I like sweating and I like the way my legs look and feel when they're strong and sometimes I'm running because I don't want to think about how sad/ angry/ depressed I am. I had an eating disorder for a really long time and when it was at its worst, I was at my heaviest. I went though a break up a long time ago and dropped 45lbs in a month to my thinnest. I wasn't taking care of myself either time. Taking care of yourself means something different to everyone. For me it usually means being present and listening to my body and quieting my mind... which can get clogged with undercurrents of body hatred when I'm not paying attention. It can also mean hiking until everything hurts and laughing over a giant bowl of pasta with people I love. What's important is that we learn how to take care of ourselves and STOP equating that with what our bodies looks like. Also, you look amazing today.

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Two of my best friends are divorcing their partners and my father has stopped taking his meds. I'll be here all week.

#fucking mother fuck

shencomix

It’s dumb. It works.

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thezoharofficial

As far as the DNC email leak goes, can goyim please remember that they were planning on discrediting Bernie Sanders on the basis of his religion? Antisemitism is not some ghost story and you can all act like you’re huge Bernie Sanders supporters, but when you all choose to ignore the persecution he faces as a Jewish person, you show your real colors.

evilelitest2

The jew hatred there was horrifying

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afinegirl

Still Here

Whoa. I’ve been locked out of my tumblr because I deleted the email address I used to open this a million years ago. It looks like I can still access it from the app on my phone for the time being, so here’s my new tumblr: http://stillafinegirl.tumblr.com

It would be super awesome if you follow me there so I can follow you back because I can’t access the list of people I follow here and it feels like a big loss.

Weird how a group of strangers represented by small square pictures with smart, funny, beautiful minds start to feel like an important part of your life after a while.

See you soon.

A Fine Girl

Still Here

Whoa. I've been locked out of my tumblr because I deleted the email address I used to open this a million years ago. It looks like I can still access it from the app on my phone for the time being, so here's my new tumblr: http://stillafinegirl.tumblr.com It would be super awesome if you follow me there so I can follow you back because I can't access the list of people I follow here and it feels like a big loss. Weird how a group of strangers represented by small square pictures with smart, funny, beautiful minds start to feel like an important part of your life after a while. See you soon. A Fine Girl

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(via Cosmic and Flowery Afro Hairstyles – Fubiz Media)

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micdotcom

Meet the female mechanic trying to disrupt the male dominated auto-industry for good

In 2011, Philadelphia native Patrice Banks had been working as an engineer for 10 years when she realized that while she may be an expert at diagnosing what was wrong with the equipment in her company’s lab, when it came to what was under the hood of her car she was completely lost.

So Banks posted an informal Facebook poll, asking her female friends to name their No. 1 knowledge gap. They overwhelmingly returned the same answer: car maintenance. “That was my ‘aha!’ moment.”