Life In Pixels. By: Basmah Shahid.

Metamorphosing my world, my memories into virtual images and written words.

[basmahshahid]

I try to run, but I don't wanna ever leave. 51/365. #LifeinPixels#VSCOcam#vscogrid#vscogram#vscography#vscolovers#iphonesia#igers#bokeh

[wordsnquotes]

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Virginia Woolf, Selected Essays.  (via wordsnquotes)

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I was wearing this outfit today to a grocery store when I made a baby smile. I was wearing this outfit today when I threw my head back and laughed, when I sang in the car with my family, when I filled it with yummy food to keep it healthy.

I was wearing this outfit today to a grocery store when I overheard a woman telling her young daughter who was pointing and laughing that I would get what’s coming to me. I was wearing this outfit today when a woman told a man that it was the wrong kind of attention and that I was asking for someone to get me. I was wearing this outfit today when the same man stared at my body longingly and then agreed with the woman that I was asking for an attack.

I was not wearing this outfit when I was raped. I was wearing a size XXL hoodie and a pair of my mom’s sweatpants, much to the shock of the friend I told after, who asked what she’d been taught to ask: “What were you wearing?”. I feel so terrible for the little girl whose mother was teaching her at the grocery store that she deserved to be assaulted if she dressed comfortably for the weather, which was climbing above 80 degrees, or for an injury, which called for a brace and a boot that doesn’t allow room for long pants, or for her body, because it’s hers and she can put on it what she damn well pleases. I feel terrible for the man who will look me up and down as though I was a 5 for $20 steak deal he might purchase and will immediately after speak to a presumable stranger about the violent fate I deserved. I feel terrible for the woman with fabulous hair who feels she can express herself but refuses to let me do the same.

Summer is coming up. It’s hot outside. I have an injured ankle, and a tight boot and brace to wear on one leg. I will not dress uncomfortably to protect complete strangers who are so offended by an expanse of skin that they console themselves by predicting my next rape.

Stop perpetuating slut-shaming and thus perpetuating a culture of excused rape. Stop perpetuating slut-shaming and thus perpetuating a culture of insecurity, inherent shame, and body image distortion which can cause an innumerable amount of incredibly dark issues nearly impossible to overcome.

My body is mine, and I love it. It is the house I live in, with which I will someday create a family, with which I run and dance and hold the strong lungs I use to sing. I refuse to be ashamed of it for any reason, especially the reason being that this culture which glorifies sex and punishes those who have it, which encourages being sexy and then preaches that sexy girls ask for attack, has taught its people that my stomach is a sin.

Please think twice this summer before you choose to say anything at all to or about anyone who wears something they choose to wear. Please think twice before you say that a girl deserves to be raped for wearing shorts. Please try and catch yourself when you think things like that. Please be courteous and gentle and loving, and spend your effort tackling real problems. My stomach and legs are not a real problem.

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This is not a post that I can just scroll by.

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I will repost this forever

[bruhita-deactivated20190224]

if you step on the back of my shoe and it comes off I will do the same thing to ur head

[wordsnquotes]

'I think about your thighs,' he wrote in the second letter,and the warm, moist smell of your skin in the morning, and the tiny eyelash in each corner of your eye that I always notice when you first roll over to look at me. I don’t know why you are better and more beautiful than anybody else. I don’t know why your body is something I can’t stop thinking about, why those little flaws and ridges on your back are lovely to me or why the pale soft bottoms of your New Jersey feet that always wore shoes are more poignant than any other feet, but they are. I thought I would have more time to chart your body, to map its poles, its contours and terrains, its inner regions, both temperate and torrid - a whole topography of skin and muscle and bone. I didn’t tell you, but I imagined a lifetime as your cartographer, years of exploration and discovery that would keep changing the look of my map. It would always need to be redrawn and reconfigured to keep up with you. I’m sure I’ve missed things..or forgotten them, because half the time I’ve been wandering around your body blind drunk with happiness. There are still places I haven’t seen.

Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved (via wordsnquotes)

[basmahshahid]

MYYYY BAAAABBYYYYY❤️ Say mashaAllah! 🌸 50/365 #VSCOcam#vscography#vscogram#vscogrid#babies#marshmallow#cheeks#love#tb

[culturenlifestyle]

Light, Time & Beauty

Paris-based architect, Tsuyoshi Tane collaborated with Japanese watch-maker citizen to create an abstract, extravagant art installation composed of suspended watch base plates, called “Light Is Time.” Tanee writes: 

"Light was born at the instant of the Big Bang, the universe’s beginning. From beyond the horizon, the rising Sun slowly covers Earth in light, shadows transform into different shapes, the seasons transit colours in nature and the waxing and waning of the Moon changes. When humanity noticed these things, we unknowingly created the concept of time.”

Originally designed for 2014’s Milan Design Week, its grandiosity was constructed from 80,000 base plates, as seen below.

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[basmahshahid]

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

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[shimmerthighs]

I love it

[basmahshahid]

Every flower must go through dirt. 49/365. #VSCOcam#vscohub#vscogram#vscogrid#vscography#lifeinpixels#nikon#igers

[misselizabethbennets]

[wordsmaketheheartgrowfonder]

I think I always knew you would be no good for me but I still chose to let you break my heart. Just for that goddamn smile of yours.

(via wordsmaketheheartgrowfonder)

[wordsnquotes]

It’s quiet now. So quiet you can almost hear other people’s dreams.

Gayle Forman, If I Stay (via wordsnquotes)

[basmahshahid]

You're the entire ocean, In a drop. 48/365. #vsco#VSCOcam#vscogrid#vscohub#vscography#vscogram#iphonesia#olloclip#macro#ollogram#igers#lifeinpixels

[basmahshahid]

*sighs* -46/365. #VSCOcam#vscohub#vscogram#VSCOgrid#vscography#PakVsInd#iphonesia#igers

[basmahshahid]

I'm not my #insecurities. 43/365. #VSCOcam#vsco#vscogrid#vscohub#vscography#vscogram#WHPsuperstition#nikon#igers

[basmahshahid]

..but you're fermented in my bones. 43/365. #VSCOcam#vscogrid#vscohub#vscovisuals#vscogram#vscography#igers#nikon#tb

[basmahshahid]

Illusions. 42/365. #mextures#VSCOcam#vscohub#vscogrid#igers#iphonesia