I AM THAT GIRL: Boston College

I AM THAT GIRL is a community inspiring girls to think for themselves, speak their truth, and discover their purpose. IATG BC aims to provide a support network for the Boston College community, enhance personal and professional development, and give members the opportunity to make a difference in this world. This is a body-positive blog set up by the girls of IATG BC to inspire and be inspired. Submissions are encouraged!

[dreamjerky]

[newblogisjacindaelena]

 James Pilgrim

[wordsnquotes]

“Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.”

Nathan W. Morris (via wordsnquotes)

[classycarolinagirl]

Never underestimate the power of good morning texts, apologies, and random compliments.

(via classycarolinagirl)

[bookmania]

A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.

Lyndon Baines Johnson (via bookmania)

[realizes]

[babypinkcrocs]

[t-fey]

It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.

Amy Poehler in Yes Please   (via 5000letters)

[kidpres]

Stay positive, everybody.

[beyxnika]

[squidsqueen]

What makes me so happy about this is that she isn’t telling you you must love your body or that you are obligated to. She saying you have permission to. And that’s important, because there are a lot of reasons why people have trouble with self-love.  But the idea that you aren’t supposed to love your body, that you aren’t allowed to for whatever reason, needs to be crushed. If you can’t love you body right now, if your body causes you pain or disphoria or distress, you aren’t required to love it. But you are ALLOWED to. You are entitled to the chance to make peace with your body, if you ever reach a point where you are ready to. No one else should be trying to stop you.

[lacigreen]

beautifully said ^

[scienceing]

[perennially-hungry-blog]

Bill Nye is my favorite

Dawkins needs to get over himself

[deducecanoe-deactivated20161213]

Bam. Dawkins is a jerk.

[avatarofnightmares-deactivated2]

Dawkins looks like he is being physically repelled by Bill Nye’s presence. Like Bill has this aura that pushes back assholes or something.

[positive-inking]

Enjoy Today by Abby Hyslop - Available in her shop!

[i-feel-inspired]

[innerwreck]

Watch Emma’s speech and take action

[alexithymiadaily]

Chart of the Day: The pay gap for women of color

[pbsthisdayinhistory]

September 28, 1948: Eleanor Speaks in Favor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On this day in 1948, United Nations delegate and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt delivered a speech in Paris entitled, “The Struggle for Human Rights.” Her goal was to create a sense of unity among nations through the common principles of the Declaration, a document that she helped draft and approve. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was approved by the UN General Assembly that December.

Learn more about all the Roosevelts with preview videos from Ken Burns’s The Roosevelts.

Photo: Eleanor Roosevelt with the English version of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Wikimedia Commons

[fleur-issant]

[iamthatgirlbc]

sonder n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.