Struggling to Survive

Rachel - pronouns: she/her/hers. 21. Junior in college studying psychology and gender studies. This blog is equal parts cute animals, feminism, and body positivity.

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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via hqlines)

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Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the people who criticize Black actors do not understand the business. They think we have more control than we have. They think we have access to these scripts that show us as scientific, beautiful, dark-skinned women over the age of forty having great sex lives…and we choose not to take those scripts

Viola Davis (via magica-tenore-regina)

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Thatched cottage Fulstow (by kip47per)

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This blog will make you feel at peace

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Sly (Sylvester ) sitting comfy

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Mike Osborne

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20160103 - The Lovers.

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Priscila Rodrigues

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I heard someone outside of this website say “hypermasculinity” seriously. The future is bleak.

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One of the first studies of hypermasculinity was conducted by Donald L. Mosher and Mark Sirkin in 1984. Mosher and Sirkin have operationally defined hypermasculinity or the “macho personality” as consisting of three variables:

callous sexual attitudes toward women

the belief that violence is manly

the experience of danger as exciting

They developed the Hypermasculinity Inventory (HMI) designed to measure the three components.[1] Research has found that hypermasculinity is associated with sexual and physical aggression towards women.[2][3] Prisoners have higher hypermasculinity scores than control groups.[4]

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Anti-Feminist Stumbles Upon Scientific Conversation, Is Bewildered and Terrified

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it is still winter, carry yourself gently be careful with your soul you are honey you are flowers you are enough

Ijeoma Umebinyuo (via dreamsinthyme)

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Art by Sam Wolfe Connelly

Sam Wolfe Connelly is a New York-based artist, known for his paintings and illustrations that are vivid renditions of the unknown, placed into surreal yet oddly familiar domestic settings occupied by haunting figures. 

Connelly was born in 1988, and raised in Northern Virginia. He became fascinated with drawing, his obsessions with nature, the world around him and things that remained unseen. This led him to pursue a degree in Illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, where he graduated in 2011.

His work utilizes a delicate lines, subdued textures and controlled colors. Each of his illustrations express a sinister poeticism that is arranged within a warm and dimly lit domestic setting. Connelly is currently based in New York. via

Stay up-to-date with Conelly’s work on his Instagram and Twitter or follow him on Tumblr.

You need the art in order to love the life. We guarantee you that!

posted by Margaret