BrigitteZ

The thoughts in my head need somewhere to go. Welcome to that somewhere. I am using this space to reconnect with my thoughts, my voice, and my writing. Tip of the month: You are what you love and not what loves you back.

[deeplifequotes]

You know who’s gonna give you everything? Yourself.

Diane Von Fursenberg (via deeplifequotes)

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[queenrafferty]

[ucbcomedy]

That feeling when you’re your own role model. 

[sorayachemaly]

Women scientists made up 25% of the Pluto fly-by New Horizon team. Make sure you share this, because erasing women’s achievements in science and history is a tradition. Happens every day.

. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150712

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[readpenguin]

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass 

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[wnq-writers]

People don’t like love, they like that flittery flirty feeling. They don’t love love - love is sacrificial, love is ferocious, it’s not emotive. Our culture doesn’t love love, it loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without paying anything for it.

Matt Chandler  (via 5000letters)

[fishingboatproceeds]

A lot of people in the coming days will say, “It’s not about race,” or, “The media is trying to make it about race.”

But look at the data from Missouri’s state government: Black residents of Ferguson are twice as likely to be stopped and/or searched as white residents, and they are far more likely to be arrested. But searches of black residents are much less likely to discover contraband than searches of white residents.

Around the country, when compared to white men, African American men are much more likely to be shot by police. They are more likely to be arrested. They are more likely to be convicted. And for the same crime, African American men will on average serve 20% more time in prison than a white man. 

We don’t have a race problem when it comes to policing in the U.S.? The data strongly indicate otherwise.

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Tom Clark

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[meghantonjes]

I’m not a former fat girl. I’m fat. I own that title because when it is yelled to you, whispered behind you, spat upon you…it weaves itself in your threads. That’s not my weakness, that’s my armor.

Two years ago I started a journey to health because I was unable to walk. I lost 70 pounds in less than a year. I weighed and measured every bit of my food. I walked until I could run. I did it the “healthy” way, but I also never left my home, never talked to anyone, became anxious about losing any type of control. Before I only thought about having food, after I only thought about not having it.

Everyone acts as if you lose weight and then comes being thin and finally comes happiness. It doesn’t work like that. Anything you carry in - you are carrying out. In fact, you’re carrying out more. Losing weight will never erase pain. It will never erase history. Wherever my body goes, as I do this slowly, healthily, full of respect for the process, understanding that love is not waiting for me but is right here if I choose it….I will always be fat. And, I will wear that badge proudly.

People have doubted me, treated my body as the pyre for them to burn their insecurities and fear upon. But every one of you has only made my will strong and my heart open. It is easier to fight your way through when there are so many people who have your back. So, this is what nobody talks about. This is the kind of body they won’t celebrate in the media and won’t show in magazines because it isn’t “done”. Life isn’t a before and after. It’s before and now. This is my body now and it is getting stronger every day. Thank you. 

[brigittez]

I've have been trying for years to even begin to explain my weight and weight loss and body and self esteem and I haven't ever been able to articulate it so clearly. Thank you, Meghan.

[nprbooks]

Image via Getty

In a move seeming designed to ramp up pressure on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters, Chinese authorities have detained one scholar and banned the books of eight writers, according to Reuters.

Guo Yushan, a think-tank founder known in the West for helping blind activist Chen Guangcheng escape house arrest in 2012, has reportedly been detained on charges of “causing a disturbance” — charges similar to those now faced by the poet Wang Zang. 

Also today, The Guardian launched its "diversity in children’s books week"on Monday with a list of what it considers the 50 best children’s books published since 1950 that celebrate cultural diversity.

Read more here.

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halloween omg no this is beautiful 

[thewightknight]

With all the heat Anita Sarkeesian gets for her Tropes series, you’d think it was a new topic, but Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert had a discussion on a similar theme when they were talking about the influx of slasher movies on their show in 1980.

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[thebearmuse]

I can’t believe this post made it to my dash with this valuable commentary deleted. This is the entire reason that this show came up in the first place. Here’s the Polygon article that broached the subject. It’s incredibly relevant to entertainment media of all kinds today.

Part 1 was already linked by the OP, but here’s part 2 of the show for convenience. (x)