Living Spherically

[theglamoroussoul]

[cassiopeidae]

say their names.

Rekia Boyd. Tarika Wilson. Kathryn Johnson. Sheresse Francis. Kendra James. Tanisha Anderson. Alberta Spruill. Yvette Smith. Miriam Carey. Shelly Frey. Darnisha Harris. Malissa Williams. Alesia Thomas. Shantel Davis. Sahlah Ridgeway. Kisha Arrone. Deresha Armstrong. India Beaty. Kisha Michael. Laronda Sweatt. Janet Wilson. Sandra Bland. Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Korryn Gaines.

[sheisrecovering]

Korryn Gaines. Keep saying her name. We need to keep educating ourselves, our friends and family on racism and police brutality. Black lives always have and always will matter. 

[fullpraxisnow]

[stopstreetharassment]

Please spread the word about the new national #streetharassment hotline that launched today!! Call toll-free, 24/7, in Spanish or English: 855-897-5910. 

[xmichaeljacksonx]

I just love how my parents let me watch the two most sexual (sexy) performers growing up I mean…

[dephinia]

As a grey-asexual I can see how some people read this as sexual and as a dancer to me it is just people expressing with their bodies the way they feel. As a survivor of incest and sexual violence I feel that no one has the right to look at me or anyone else doing things with our bodies and interpret them as sexual invitations in any way, from appreciation to participation.

Images like these may turn a person on but I want more than anything for people to own their own sexual responses and not attribute them to the targets. Even if it’s porn, yes! Consent culture = owning your desire. It’s not mean, or hard, or shameful to say, “I WANT THIS PERSON I FIND SEXY!” What isn’t sexy is saying, “THIS PERSON MADE ME WANT THEM BECAUSE OF X!” with X being ANYTHING.

I may overreact but I want CONSENT CULTURE. Consent is sexy, Laci Green taught me so.

https://youtu.be/x_CpIbhkZco

[breathtakingdestinations]

Tsada - Cyprus (by Oleg)

[design-is-fine]

Earring, 2400-2200 BCE. Gold. Anatolia. © Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim Foto: Günther Meyer

[dephinia]

Look at that sexy date! Look at that date! Holy frak we were awesome then!

[cubewatermelon-deactivated20200]

What is fox

[dephinia]

What does fox say

[ghibli-collector]

Path To The Bath House - The Art Of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away

[theartofanimation]

Ariduka55  -  https://twitter.com/13033303  -  http://ariduka55.tumblr.com

[handmadecollage]

A Spanish Fantasy

[breathtakingdestinations]

Vieste - Italy (by Zimmerman76)

[design-is-fine]

Golden earrings, 6th century BCE. Etruscan, Italy. Via Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim.

[breathtakingdestinations]

Granada - Spain (by Ronny Siegel)

[iamthethunder]

Beatings, Murder, Rape in California Asylums

A 900-page report exposes horrific crimes in five California institutions, 13 of which ended in death. America’s broken mental-health system is downright lethal.

The promise of the institution, the reason we made these things, was the hope that they would keep people safe.  They have repeatedly failed to do that.  It is time to move on to other ideas.

[dephinia]

This is one of the many reasons I fear involuntary commitment more than anything else in the world. Most institutions are the equivalent of incarceration, with the added bonus loss of liberty that says people can drug you without your permission. It’s unfathomable to me that people think that when I’m in crisis I should go to a hospital. That’s the last place I want to be when I’m that vulnerable. Or ever. “Here, check into a prison and be experimented on and deprived of privacy!” is not my idea of a healing or recuperative experience.

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

A disabled trans lesbian explains how the U.S.'s 'marriage penalty' on disability benefits prices out some of the most vulnerable LGBT people, despite Friday's ruling.

Even if Jessica and I can legally marry, we really don’t have the option to.

That is, we don’t have the option unless we want to risk losing the disability benefits that sustain our survival.

However, various forms of disability benefits that we have between us put a constraint on the possibility of our legal marriage. For Supplemental Security Income, the total benefits between two individuals are automatically reduced 25 percent upon marrying, and if only one is receiving SSI and the other has more income, “deeming” — or as I call it, the “sugar daddy provision” — comes into play. Deeming assumes that a person who receives SSI and is married to a person with significant income or resources will be taken care of, and thus the benefits will be reduced or eliminated  for the SSI recipient, no matter how much the richer spouse keeps their resources separate.