you do not have to stay broken

sam - 21 - bi ♡ she/her/hers ♡ 5/28/16

[freshgomez]

[selgomez-news]

@tmarie247: My right hand & my go to. Happy Birthday Sunshine. @selenagomez

[kylizzer]

Happy 25th birthday Selena!

“I’ve had to deal with [the pressure and scrutiny] on a different scale. Whether it was just kids or growing up in the biggest high school in the world, which was Disney Channel, it was also adults that had you know, the audacity to kind of tell me how I should live my life and it was very confusing for me. It was so confusing. I had no idea who I was going to be and what I’m still going to become and it definitely hits home.”

[zehnxdaya]

♡ Happy 25th Birthday Day Selena Marie Gomez • July 22,1992 ♡ 

 “I’m loyal. To the people that I love. I’m kind. Because my mom would not have me any other way. I work hard. I’m a hard worker.”

[lovestory]

I’m loyal. To the people that I love. I’m kind. Because my mom would not have me any other way. And I work hard. I’m a hard worker. 

[selmaries]

Happy Birthday, Selena Marie Gomez! ♡ (July 22nd, 1992)

“When I look at my life, I realize people have been placed in it to teach me different lessons that have made me who I am today. And I can say I am blessed.”

[antoniosvivaldi]

“I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.”

— Happy birthday to Selena Marie Gomez

[kpopco]

[cockygomez]

I can’t deny Your appetite, ah

[witchisgypsy]

[biselena]

Frankly? What’s a more iconic lyric than “if I were you I’d do me too”

[selenag0mez]

[kpopco]

Blue //  It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven. insp

[selenagomezdaily]

“I’m the kind of girl that loves tremendously big. I just have always been that girl. I will give my heart and my soul to the person that I love. It’s just how I operate. ”

[marieselena-deactivated20190830]

[selgomez-news]

@_marissamarino: When you’re trying to get your client to hold still 💪🏻 😂😂

[captainlordauditor]

Obviously it's not ur job to educate me so u don't have to answer if I'm talking out of my ass but ur pretty involved in the jewish tumblr community so I wanted to ask if "diaspora" refers specifically to Jewish people? Or I guess if it's proper to use it in a context that's not about Jewish people? I've looked it up but I'm still unsure

ive heard it used to refer to immigrants of other groups, but it’s a different set so to speak

[justabrowncoatedwench]

The two groups I’ve heard use the term diaspora the most in relation to their cultural and ethnic history are Jews and Romani. Not to say it’s not an all-purpose term for non-Jews/Romani to use in other contexts too, but that’s just my experience.

[captainlordauditor]

yeah I’ve heard it used to refer to, like, Chinese-American immigrants, but with Jews and Rromani are communities as a whole live in a diaspora, which is…a totally different experience.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

In its original usage, the word was specifically about Jews and the Jewish experience of exile. More recently, it’s been adopted to describe other peoples living outside their homelands. I have zero problem with Roma using it, but I misgivings about its broader usage beyond that, more for petty reasons than anything else, because I feel like people always want to prevent Jews and Roma from using descriptors of experience that originated with other communities, and that’s fair enough, but it shouldn’t be expected that everybody else can take words meant to describe the Jewish experience in return.

At any rate, Jews and Roma have largely been diasporic peoples for most of history, which is different than a family moving to Chicago from Poland or whatever.

[missalsfromiram-deactivated2020]

Since its introduction into English in the late 1800s, the word diaspora has also been used to refer to the Greek and Armenian populations abroad. (See this Google Ngram of “Greek diaspora” and “Armenian diaspora”.)

Greek and Armenian both have native terms for the dispersion of their nations from their respective homelands that closely translate to diaspora; Greek uses the term omogéneia / ομογένεια; Armenian uses sp’yurk’ / սփյուռք or gaghut’ / գաղութ - which in fact is a borrowing from the Aramaic equivalent of the Hebrew galut.