Tales of a Fat Chick in Skinny Jeans

Fat, cute, anxious mess of a twenty-seven year old queer femme. Jersey girl by birth, New Orleanian by choice, Bostonian by accident. Follow me as I deflect derogatory cat calls, bandage high heel-induced blisters, and glare at anyone who locks eyes with me for more than three seconds.

[xtrasadshawty]

Brown Girls (2017) dir. Sam Bailey

A new web series by Fatimah Asghar that follows Leila, a South Asian-American writer just now owning her queerness and her best friend Patricia, a sex-positive Black-American musician who is struggling to commit to anything: job, art and relationships. While the two women come from completely different backgrounds, their friendship is ultimately what they lean on to get through the messiness of their mid-twenties.

watch trailer here (x)

[roseinrapture]

ITS OUT YA”LL LETS WATCH

[antiblackness-archive]

watch white wlw sleep on this despite them reblogging three (3) posts about wanting diversity

[tiffanyaliyah]

Note to self

Stop getting excited every time a new person is fascinated by you.

Most of the time it won’t mean shit.

[thatsthat24]

How about girls kissing girls?

Pure. Holy. Needs to be supported.

[petitetimidgay-deactivated20240]

i really wish platonic relationships were more important. i’m tired of losing friendships because i’m less important than their significant other. i hate that i’m automatically not as close to my friends because i’m not the person they’re dating/sleeping with. and i hate how whenever i complain about it the response is “you’ll find someone too someday!” like no I shouldn’t have to “find someone” to feel loved and important, maybe we should stop promoting investing all your time and effort and physical and emotional intimacy into one romantic/sexual partner idk

[dextersdaughter-deactivated2016]

If I’m extra sarcastic with you it probably means I’m flirting with you or you really annoy me and I can’t handle your shit

Have fun figuring out which

[likelyhealthy]

[thequotejournals]

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

Eliezer Yudkowsky  (via saintcaffeinated)

[ithelpstodream]

[reverso]

[feelingswithbrandy]

So what the fuck is with plus size clothing’s aversion to basics? I was thinking about it, and it’s like…they can’t ever just let a nice, simple item exist, and have to throw on some weird detail. Especially in professional wear, I’ve noticed. It’s like, impossible to find a plain basic thing to layer with. Some of these things can be cute and fun, but not when you can barely find a plain version if you’re lucky. Some examples:

-Oh, a nice cardigan! THE BACK IS LACE. -Oh, what a nice sensible top for work OH LET’S CUT THE SHOULDERS OPEN. -a nice, simple camisole WITH FUCKING RHINESTONES ON THE TITS -This is a pretty dress WITH ONE LONG SLEEVE -this cardigan doesn’t have any weird crochet on it GIANT TITTY RUFFLES -what a pretty dress LET’S BUILD IN A CHEAP CULTURALLY-APPROPRIATIVE NECKLACE YOU CAN’T REMOVE -slacks for work WITH PINK PINSTRIPES KAWAII~ -here’s a good t-shirt to layer with PARIS LOVE SPRAYPAINT DETAIL -some sensible work pants! AVAILABLE IN JEWEL TONES THAT WILL NEVER MATCH ANYTHING ELSE YOU OWN -Hey. a sedate black sweater. LOL EXCEPT THERE’S A PLAID COLLAR ON IT -you wanted this dress in SEQUINED LEOPARD PRINT right? -What a lovely, professional shirt OH BUT IT HAS A SHARKBITE HEM -a nice blouse for work IN A CHARTREUSE FLORAL PRINT YOU CAN SEE FROM THE HIGHWAY -something to wear over sundresses so that your upper arms are covered? PLEASE CHECK OUR “FAT GIRL IN A LITTLE COAT CHRIS FARLEY FOR HER” COLLECTION OF CAP SLEEVE BOLEROS

[iamhannalashay]

Just kinda wanna be braless and eat fruit in peace tbh

[amorphousursa]

So did Eve and look where that got her

[teawitch]

I don’t know about you, but there are days when I could go for being braless, eating fruit and bringing about the downfall of man. 

[defydamage]

Reblog if all you want to do is be braless and eat fruit and bring about the downfall of man.

[yayoroses]

[mekakitten]

[heyunclekate]

[kulampara]

[vesface]

[featuresofinterest]

it seems so strange to me that the only people it is socially acceptable to live with (once you reach a certain stage in life) are sexual partners? like why can’t i live with my best friend? why can’t i raise a child with them? why do i need to have sex with someone in order to live with them? why do we put certain relationships on a pedestal? why don’t we value non-sexual relationships enough? why do life partners always have to be sexual partners?

[greenjudy]

My grandmother and grandfather more or less adopted my grandmother’s best friend back in the 50s. After my grandfather died (before I was born, back in 1968 or so) they continued to keep house together, platonic best friends, and they hung together until they died, a few months apart, in 2007.

It’s quite recently, as far as I can tell, that living arrangements like that have stopped being regarded as normal.

[deathcomes4u]

It’s absolutely a new thing to find this stuff weird, and it has a lot to do with media pretending that the nuclear family and marriage are the only reasons to live with other people.

I’ve lived in a 3 adult household my whole life. My parents and their best friend. This was never weird to me, even though everyone my age thought it was because the media never portrayed these kinds of housing arrangements. As far as i was concerned, I just had an extra non-blood parent.

According to my parents, it was very common in the 70′s-80′s to buy houses with your friends, because it was financially smart to do so (so long as you were certain they were close friends who wouldn’t fall out with you and fuck everything up). Houses and house payments are much more manageable when you split the bills 3-4 ways instead of just two.

Millenials aren’t the first to think it’s a great idea to just shack up with friends. That’s housemating without the hastle of living with strangers. It’s still a good idea to shack up with people you’ve known a long time so you know how you’ll get on living together, but still. In the current economy, it’s pretty much now our only option for affording anything.

I think, and I’m not researched on this, but I think conservatives probably tried to suppress images of non-nuclear families because they likely thought it would encourage ideas of polygamy, polyamory, open sexual relationships with or without marriage, as well as other relationship types they thought of as un-christian or unsavoury. I could be wrong, but that shit wouldn’t surprise me.

(And i want to make a note that there’s also a disturbing amount of asexual denial around that makes people go ‘if they’re living together they HAVE to be banging because why wouldn’t they?’ and that shit both creeps me out and annoys me no end. People can be in relationships without sex. People can live together without sex. Sex is not the be-all and end-all and people being taught to think it is really need to stop).

Don’t let the media fool you into believing you can only live with a sexual partner or blood family. Someone somewhere has an agenda for making these seem abnormal, when really it’s just practical.