[shirazade]

Tessa Thompson photographed by Shaniqwa Jarvis

[moneyisevil]

you can have your own personal relationship with sex and libido without it being a label or identity you have to paste on yourself. it’s like people think because they don’t like casual hooking up or just don’t have a strong libido/aren’t that horny that means they are somehow a “deviant” and need to invent a new identity and make yourself a flag. some people are horny and some aren’t that horny, that’s just life. some people like casual hooking up and some don’t. some only get horny with a long term partner. it’s all normal and none of that makes you “deviant” and none of it makes you oppressed, and it ESPECIALLY doesn’t make you lgbt.

[moneyisevil]

and you know what? people thinking that their sex drive has anything to do with being lgbt just shows how sexualized/fetishized we are. we are associated more with being “sexual deviants” than with just being people who want to have relationships and lives with whoever we want. this is why you get bdsm and other “kinks” thinking they’re lgbt, because to them being lgbt is more about fucking than it is about freedom.

[theforce]

sharice davids just unseated a republican in the middle of fucking kansas becoming the first native american woman to serve in the us house of representatives and guess what SHE’S ALSO A LESBIAN 

[spacecowboyxo]

She really just did that 👏

[knifepadme]

academia is ruined, we need to throw it back to the days when scholars were only after the cure for death, i want to wear a cool robe and get funding from the king to just do whatever the hell and kind of poison him

[powerfulwizard]

author: her power is that her nipples shoot boiling milk so she has to be topless always

fans: she isn’t sexualized, the author had to draw her like that because its her power. its out of his control.

[awwww-cute]

[provst-deactivated20190401]

“The most precious thing is vitality – not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will + energy + appetite to do what one wants to do + not to be ‘sunk’ by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947—1963

[principleofplenitude]

“So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”

— Henry David Thoreau, from “Walden”

[noorskitchen]

One of the most challenging things I’ve had to learn is that healing must be intentional. There is no one golden day that comes and saves you from all your misery. Healing is a practice. You have to decide that it’s what you want to do and actively do it. You have to make a habit out of it. Once I learned that, I only looked back to see how far I came.

[artfulfashion]

Estella Brons photographed by Andreas Ortner for Ashi Studio, Autumn-Winter 2018-2019

[levourdalak]

“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.”

— Terry Pratchett (via beornwulf)

[diabeticlesbian]

@ non-lesbians take note

[everiore]

🌿🍃🕊

[heavyweightheart]

the promises of weight loss and any other attempted manipulation of one’s body to meet cultural standards are false – that is, they won’t make your life better and they won’t improve your self worth. they may grant you temporary acceptance or better treatment in certain contexts, but a) humane treatment that’s granted or denied based on your appearance can’t be relied on, it will fail you, and b) the constant sacrifices you’ll have to make to maintain the altered state of your body will likely outweigh the benefits you receive. 

such a precarious situation cannot support self worth. you’ll always feel on the verge of being rejected again. your sense of self cannot attach to such an insubstantial “self improvement”… it will feel like an act, and in a sense, it is.

but the good news is that body acceptance and improved self worth are available to you right now, in the body you currently have. you have everything it takes to do this work, and you need change nothing about yourself. you may still choose to, but you won’t be looking to those superficial changes to give you what they never can. or you may find that you choose not to, that in your life and self concept a space has been made for you exactly as you are

[urbannoir]

“forests are the lungs of the earth”

[rosewater1997]

where are my fellow hysterical women who would have either been a) an oracle in ancient greece or b) burned at the stake in medieval times…..make some noise ladies 

[herbwicc]