a girl named honor

this is where i share with you the scraps of beauty i encounter while also regurgitating my thoughts to complete strangers and closest friends. all work is my own unless otherwise noted. let's be friends: [email protected]

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Children's art in Iraqi Kurdistan

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Pawel Kuczynski’s satirical art. Take a moment to look at these properly.

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This guy is not even slightly in the area of fucking around

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The world’s 85 richest people have as much wealth as the world’s 3.5 billion poorest.

This statistic was recently released in United Nations report that uses Oxfam figures. It’s also a huge wake-up call for anyone who doesn’t consider income inequality a major issue in global politics. (via micdotcom)

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China: Address Enduring Legacy of Tiananmen Massacre

The Chinese government continues to persecute survivors and their family members who seek accountability, and crush all discussion of the event. In the run-up to this year’s anniversary, at least six individuals, including prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, academic Xu Youyu, and artist Chen Guang, have been detained for commemorating the 25th anniversary. Many other activists have been put under criminal detention  Ding Zilin, the founder of the Tiananmen Mothers, a group formed to press for truth and accountability of their loved ones killed in the massacre, and her husband Jiang Peikun have been forced out of their hometown Beijing ahead of the anniversary. This will be the first time the elderly couple will not be able to hold a private memorial in Beijing for their son, according to Human Rights in China.

Read more.

Photo: Tiananmen Square. June 4th, 1989. © 1989 Stuart Franklin/MAGNUM

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I held you dear since the dawn of time You know it's true that for you I shine

Sunshine Blues by the Bahamas

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Saturn seems habitual, The way it rages in the sky When we’re not looking. On this note, the trees still sing To me, and I long for this Mottled world. Patterns Of the lamplight on this leather, The sun, listening. My brother, my sister, I was born to tell you certain Things, even if no one Really listens. Give it back To me, as the bird takes up The whole sky, ruined with Nightfall. If I can remember The words in the storm, I will be well enough to sit Here with you a little while.

On Being An Artist by Noelle Kocot

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"Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, never bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know."

Bohumil Hrabal - Too Loud A Solitude

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"We want so much more--something the books on aesthetics take little notice of. But the poets and the mythologies know all about it. We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words--to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it."

C.S. Lewis

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Taking Away My Childhood: On Sexual Assault And Boyhood

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Seventeen years later, I finally have the courage to say, “I am a sexual abuse survivor,” and I need to heal myself. Trigger warning: This piece contains details about rape, sexual assault, and violence.

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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind.

Nayyirah Waheed

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i am trying to remember you and let you go at the same time.

nayyirah waheed

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Photographer Ryan Muirhead Talks Depression, Creativity, and What It Means to Be Human

Ryan Muirhead by B3njamin Photography There's no way of knowing when you'll wake up in life, or if you ever will. Only after getting down the track a ways