New Growth

an echo of my voice

[lostinurbanism]

New York. Photographs by Yale Joel (1954) via the LIFE Photo Collection.

[forafricans]

Seen in Ghana, 1960 by Marc Riboud

[vanity-96-deactivated20210416]

Chaka Khan on “Soul Train” 1975.

[fotojournalismus]

Tennessee, 1948.

Photo by Consuelo Kanaga

[bala5]

[aidashakur]

i apologize to myself for pretending i was receiving enough when i wasn’t.

[lostinurbanism]

Illinois. Photographs in Galesburg and Chicago Unions Station by Esther Bubley (1948) via the Newberry Library.

[diplomaat]

i've sweptleft on all bar 38 people in a 25 mile radius of this city,

and it was more but i went back and unmatched a few

and i'm definitely seeing the same profiles again because i've exhausted the list.

they keep giving me my highest matches, 96, 98% on 39, 40 or 24 year old white athiests.

is there an app for possibly greysexual people who are very uncomfortable in their bodies who want to meet up {yesinnnapancetta} to do who knows what, but def not sex

then i might have time for that demographic thats overrepresented in my matches

[imakesensejournal]

We Can't Keep Treating Anxiety From Complex Trauma the Same Way We Treat Generalized Anxiety

"Many effective strategies that treat anxiety and depression don't work for trauma survivors."

(excerpt:)

“Many effective strategies that treat anxiety and depression don’t work for trauma survivors. Meditation and mindfulness techniques that make one more aware of their environment sometimes can produce an opposite effect on a trauma survivor.  Trauma survivors often don’t need more awareness. They need to feel safe and secure in spite of what their awareness is telling them.”

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

“For those who have experienced trauma, anxiety comes from an automatic physiological response to what has actually, already happened. The brain and body have already lived through “worst case scenario” situations, know what it feels like and are hell-bent on never going back there again. The fight/flight/ freeze response goes into overdrive. It’s like living with a fire alarm that goes off at random intervals 24 hours a day. It is extremely difficult for the rational brain to be convinced “that won’t happen,” because it already knows that it has happened, and it was horrific.”

[dalethesjtoddler]

“At the first sign of anxiety or depression, traumatized people will spiral into toxic shame. Depending on the wounding messages they received from their abusers, they will not only feel the effects of anxiety and depression, but also a deep shame for being “defective” or “not good enough.” Many survivors were emotionally and/or physically abandoned, and have a deep rooted knowledge of the fact that they were insufficiently loved. They live with a constant reminder that their brains and bodies were deprived of a basic human right. Even present-day situations where they are receiving love from a safe person can trigger the awareness and subsequent grief of knowing how unloved they were by comparison.”

[diplomaat]

lockdown 3.0 or whichever one we're in now, probably has nothing to do with my mental state. but the recent weight gain, oh I don't even want to leave the house. I have days where I eat nothing, and others where I feel I'm about to burst, like today. ugh I want to wire my jaws shut

[yearningforunity]

Hat Makers on Curacao Island

Hat-making, one of Curacao’s main industries.

[yearningforunity]

Portobello Road Market

Notting Hill, London England

[diplomaat]

this  panorama  has  me  in  a  ,  not  great  place

*insert image of fire* I’m aflame and uncomfortable in my skin

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

[diplomaat]

Developing world has been doing this since last spring...UK only started this month, on a limited schedule

[yearningforunity]

Reggae fans in Stockwell, south London, in 1977, at a Rock Against Racism gig. 

Photograph: David Corio/Redferns

[angelswithdreams]

i honestly believe human beings are not meant to live like this. we are meant to live in loving communities and be around nature every day and grow our own food and create art and not work day and night until we die. this longing for another life is not human nature, it’s a symptom of modern society.

[brandonousley]

Well, I took a trip to Africa – which, by the way, is where I plan to live some day. I went to Kenya, and while I was there something inside of me said, “Look around you, Richard. What do you see? I saw people. African people. I saw people from other countries, too, and they were all kinds of colors, but I didn’t see any “niggers.” I didn’t see any there because There are no “niggers” in Africa. Can you imagine going out into the bush and walking up to a Masai and saying, “Hey nigger. Come here!?” You couldn’t do that because Masai are not “niggers.” There are no “niggers” in Africa, and there are no “niggers” here in America either. We Black people are no t”niggers,” and I will forever refuse to be one. I’m free of that, it’s out of my head. My mother is not a “nigger.” Is yours one? So if your mama ain’t no “nigger,” how could you be one? See, when I went to Africa, to my Motherland, I realized that terms like “nigger” and the word “bitch” that so many Black men call our women are tricks, like genocide on the brain.

- Richard Pryor on Africa, 1979.