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"With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?" – Oscar Wilde

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Biggie Smalls: The Voice That Influenced A Generation

The rapper died when he was only 24 years old. He only released two albums, yet he's one of the most revered, emulated and biggest-selling rappers in the game.

He recorded as The Notorious B.I.G. People knew him as Biggie Smalls, or Biggie. He was murdered when he was only 24 years old. Yet he’s one of the most revered, emulated and biggest-selling rappers in the game.

He only released two albums. On some of his songs, Big tells true stories. But on some of them he spins the kind of Homeric tales of street lore that can be heard in a lot of rap. There’s violence in them, and guns and drugs. But his voice doesn’t sound like anybody else’s. It’s plummy, wheezy, humid. It sounds like it comes from deeper in his chest than other people’s voices.

Today is the 20th anniversary of his death. 

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Kelly Brown

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[dig-my-earth]

Consider this: You can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photo-receptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it.

NASA Lunar Science Institute, 2012 (via finegoodsfinefolk)

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This will make you feel better

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Clear your mind here

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ABIGAIL : A wild thing may say wild things.

Arthur Miller, The Crucible (via antigonick)

[amargedom]

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (via amargedom)

[bookmania]

“A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.” ~ Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies

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Using the Bathroom While Trans: It’s Scary for Us Too

As anti-trans bills flourish, one woman shares her story of switching bathrooms after transitioning.

Lately there’s been a lot of talk about the fear of sharing bathrooms with trans and gender-nonbinary people. The panic has largely come from cisgender people—people whose gender identity aligns with the gender they were assigned at birth, and it has made me realize that I’m not sure if people understand what the experience of switching bathrooms during transition is like. I think they imagine it as a nonchalant event that just happens one day without incident—but it’s not like that.

I started dressing female in the early spring of 2009 and became increasingly androgynous over the summer after my last year in college. I didn’t tell anyone this was the start of my transition; I just said I was trying out a new style. Eventually, I could tell I was making people in the men’s room really uncomfortable, and I was starting to feel pretty out of place myself. My counselor then suggested that I begin using the women’s room.

I was terrified. For one, I had been taught since early childhood that only perverts and monsters went into the opposite sex’s bathroom. While I had now accepted myself as a woman, I still had a lifetime’s worth of conditioning not to go into the women’s room. I consider myself a kind and polite person and am, generally speaking, not a monster. I didn’t want to scare or make anyone uncomfortable, and I certainly didn’t want anyone freaking out and calling security.

When I finally came out at my place of work after graduation—a university library—I sent my coworkers an email explaining the situation. I mentioned that I wouldn’t use the bathroom on the basement level so that my other female coworkers wouldn’t have to deal with suddenly seeing me there. It wasn’t entirely fair to me, but I felt it would make the experience easier for everyone.

In hindsight, I wish I had been the person who stood up and demanded the right to use the bathroom, but I was the sort who often thought of other people’s needs first.

The first women’s bathroom I used was on the top floor of the library. It was rarely used and at the top of several flights of stairs. I was anxious and shaking. If anybody else was in the bathroom with me, I’d wait for her to leave, and then I’d run for the door—I must have looked crazy. Eventually, I was confident enough to stay and wash my hands—and sometimes other women saw me and nothing happened. That, too, boosted my confidence.

Read the wholes story on TakePart.com.

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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.

bell hooks (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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