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azba, 25. | passionate about tropical fruits 🍍

[redlipstickresurrected]

Mark Horn (based Amsterdam, Netherlands) - China Night series  Photography

[ainvayi]

wow it has been SO LONG since i've been on tumblr but i miss venting into the void so maybe this is a comeback??? 

[julieterbang]

taramilktea

[butteryplanet]

cinemagraph artist on instagram

[90377]

Rainforest in the rain, Yakushima, Kagoshima, Japan by Ippei & Janine Naoi Instagram | Website | Portrait sessions in Tokyo

[enchantedkissess]

[botanitas]

The Mayans had mastered water pressure and had fountains and toilets as early as 750 AD. Aztecs had running water and sewage.

The Victorians In the mid-1800s were dying of cholera because they just dumped their raw shit in the river Thames. They wouldn’t shower for months at a time because they were afraid of the polluted water.

[groovyseb]

Incans had created aquaducts in the slopes of the vast Andes mountains to reach the emperor, cities and farmers who used agricultural terraces.

Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans were far more advanced than the savage Europeans.

[prince-of-legba]

My history Professor snapped on a class of 200 - 300 students at once because they kept writing in their assignments that Natives to North and South America were less advanced and less civilized than Europeans. She didn’t even bother to say how racist it was past one comment, she then literally listed all the things they said in their assignments and debunked them. In sum, Europeans came to the Americas because their civilizations were dirty, underdeveloped, starved, plagued, impoverished, and war-torn. So, the whole foundation of the idea of the supremacy of Europeans/white ppl and their countries and culture was all fabricated to justify their greed and the reality THEY needed resources, refuge, and knowledge to support themselves and their willingness to commit genocide, instigate conflict, and enslave to do so.

[potato-non-grata]

Europe legit spent most of human history as a backwater of civilization, and the only way they got “ahead” at all was through genocide, slavery, and biological warfare

[averyterrible]

“Rather than returning to the family in the face of its destruction under capitalism, we should seek to create a world where the haven of the family is not necessary. Rather than a society full of broken families, we need a society where someone without a family can thrive as well as someone with family intact. This is what “abolishing the family” truly means: to end the economic relations of dependence of wives and children on the patriarch so that kinship is based on voluntary relationships of genuine love and community. This would entail not ending the ability of parents to raise their children, but instead giving children the option to leave their families if they are abusive, while retaining support networks beyond the misery of foster care. It would mean ending the unpaid domestic labor of women that reproduces the nuclear family, by socializing this work and removing its gendered connotations.”

— Donald Parkinson, Faith, Family and Folk: Against the Trad Left

[worldexperience]

Margaret Jeane

[lesbianboboberens]

tbh as feminists we should be more concerned by the over-normalization of hormonal birth control

[lesbianboboberens]

for the people wondering:

first of all because hormonal birth control is a medical intervention, for a medical purpose, but I know more and more girls who view it as a rite of passage for becoming a woman who may at one point become sexually active. It’s a serious medical intervention that comes with a host of risks and side effects and is not generalizeable to every condition or need. I know more women on hormonal birth control than I do off it, and many of them are not sexually active. saying that because so many women take it it’s “normal” or “not that big a deal” is wildly underestimating the potential for complications or problems, which can include anything from persistent acne to blood clots (one of which gave my mother a pulmonary embolism and put her in the hospital).

second of all, hormonal birth control is treated as a catch-all for a host of medical problems, and it’s not. things like genuine contraception (avoiding pregnancy from PIV sex) are completely different needs from PCOS, endometriosis, severe period cramps, irregular periods, and other reproductive problems, and the reason hormonal birth control is considered a catch-all for these many different conditions is because of a lack of research and funding into women’s health and developing alternatives. We need lesser alternatives for women who take hormonal birth control for things like period cramps, because this need is completely different from PCOS or from contraception. This lack of research and funding is the same reason that hormonal birth control can also be very dangerous for some women, or have unforseen and often irreversible side effects.

third of all, birth control in general has done very little to fundamentally change women’s sexual position in society for the better. like all medical or scientific advancements, what matters is what you do with it because objectively it’s neither good nor bad it just is. but birth control in general has just served to make women more sexually accessible to men now that pregnancy is less of a concern, and this has facilitated things like hookup culture and, to a certain extent, rape culture and sex trafficking. combined with the reasons previously listed, hormonal birth control should especially be a concern.

[leahberman]

Superbloom

Diamond Valley Lake, California

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[fromanotherroom]

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[laurenarlene]

[baklavugh]

ماهرخ

Mahrokh, literally “moon-face”. A Persian name chiefly for girls. The moon is associated as one of the highest levels of beauty in Persian culture. To be named this is to be called the silent beauty of a full moon on a clear night. (via jasminvoegtate)

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[maggie-mayes]

All the magnolia trees are so pretty right now. I love them.

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Bruno Barbey. India Rajasthan province. Pilgrims looking at the Holy Lake.