easyflow

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.

[sophielovestuna]

Getting ready for bed.

[holybikinisbatman]

ooooooh myyyyyy goooood pls look at this cat get into a little tiny cat bed 

[thebootycrusade]

@heroofferelden

[furstyphoto]

[intrestingsnippets-blog]

happy holidays!

[humansofnewyork]

“My father was a fascist. He was trained to be a terrorist in Mussolini’s army. He was anti-everybody. The Irish were ‘micks,’ black people were ‘niggers,’ and Jewish people were ‘kikes.’ His main weapon was pain. He raped me, locked me in closets, beat me with broom handles. He sent me to the hospital many times. He’d threaten to blow my brains out in the middle of the street. I absorbed a lot of his emotional energy. Sometimes his voice still comes out of me. When I’m really angry, and cussing myself out, I sound just like him. It’s him inside me, speaking to me. But I didn’t become him. My grandfather saved me. My grandmother was a fascist like my father. She counted her rosary beads and condemned the world, but my grandfather was a simple man. He lived with us. He always told me: ‘Your father is a nut.’ He hugged me and kissed me. I swung between two extremes: the love of my grandfather and the hate of my father. My grandfather knew how to love. My father couldn’t love because he was too filled with terror. He didn’t have the tools to love. Once when I was fifteen, I walked over to my father and gave him a big hug. He kept his arms stiff by his side. I said ‘I love you Dad,’ and his body started trembling. There was a terrified child inside of him. He wanted to love. And he wanted to be loved. He just didn’t know how.”

[intrestingsnippets-blog]

anger and meanness covers up the traumatised chid pain, makes sense...

[sandandglass]

Senator Elizabeth Warren on The Late Show, July 21, 2016

[intrestingsnippets-blog]

love her!

[popculturebrain]

Samira Wiley Joins Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

Orange Is The New Black regular Samira Wiley has joined the cast of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the upcoming straight-to-series drama toplined by Elisabeth Moss and based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel.

[shencomix]

I didn’t want to know.

image / twitter / facebook / patreon

[kumagawa]

[intrestingsnippets-blog]

The counter-argument wasn’t really an argument but a very clever appeal to emotion, to the idea that the UK could ‘Take back control’. Whoever came up with that slogan had spent more time listening than talking. The Remain campaign failed to do that. The dominant note out there in the country since the credit crunch and Great Recession has been one of bafflement, of bewilderment and disorientation. How did this happen? How did we get here? Why does nobody listen to us, why does nobody care about us? It’s the thing you keep hearing when you engage with an audience on this subject. Although people talk about anger, it’s revealing that they often do so by asking why people aren’t more angry. If I had to pick one sentence I’ve heard more than any other in the last six years of conversation about economics, it would be ‘Why aren’t people more angry?’ The Brexit vote showed that plenty of them are. But perhaps it expressed that other feeling, the one of bewilderment, just as much. ‘Take back control’ is a cynical but extremely astute pitch to an electorate in that state of mind.

John Lanchester · Brexit Blues · LRB 28 July 2016

[intrestingsnippets-blog]

I just realized something. All this time I was afraid that I was wanting to be trans, but not that I was, and I just realized that I wanted to be trans, because I wanted to be able to transition to female, thus that makes me trans, funny how it works. permalink embed save report give gold reply [–]TooLateForMeTFTrans-Lesbian 2 points 10 days ago The media didn't make you want to be a girl ever since you were small. You did that all on your own, so own it, girl! [–]TurquoiseMouseQueer-Genderqueer 4 points 10 days ago I spent 5 years struggling with this EXACT same feeling, until I stumbled across a comic, in which a mother asked her trans daughter how she KNEW she was a girl. and she said she didn't know, she just felt better like that. That was all I needed, I felt better too and the rest didn't matter. I spent 5 years struggling with this EXACT same feeling, until I stumbled across a comic, in which a mother asked her trans daughter how she KNEW she was a girl. and she said she didn't know, she just felt better like that. That was all I needed, I felt better too and the rest didn't matter.

I feel like im faking it. : asktransgender

[intrestingsnippets-blog]

These days, the Stocker-Witterick family’s gender diversity is more understood, they say, but other components of their life still draw ire. “The core issues of democratic parenting and how much we fail to share power with young people (in society) I think are still really entrenched and draw fire,” David says. In the Stocker-Witterick home, everyone has a say and family decisions can come down to a vote. That was the case last year when the family debated enrolling the children in public school three days a week.

Baby Storm five years later: Preschooler on top of the world | Toronto Star

[intrestingsnippets-blog]

A pro-democracy demonstrator holds an umbrella after police fired tear gas towards protesters near the Hong Kong government headquarters, in a dramatic escalation of the Umbrella Revolution protests, September 28, 2014. (XAUME OLLEROS/AFP/Getty Images) 26-year-old West Baltimore photographer Devin Allen, posted this image to Instagram on April 25 2015. It became one of the defining images of the ongoing protests. It went viral and became a cover image for TIME magazine. A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 9, 2016. This image has gone viral and has already become an iconic image of the Black Lives Matter protests. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman)

10 of the most iconic protest photos — Timeline

[zwian]

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[german-expressionists]

Christian Rohlfs, Tree in Autumn, 1917 

[intrestingsnippets-blog]

I watch every Conchita Wurst video I can find. That’s because, even if she’s speaking German and I understand 20 words, there’s always something interesting to pull from it. Case in point, a video that went up on YouTube today. A snippet of a Blick interview Conchita gave while in Switzerland last weekend. An interview in which she talked about how she loves to be busy, and about social media and some of the negativity directed at her on it. Negativity she, of course, ignores. But……I’m not here to talk about what she says in her Switzerland interview. Instead, I’m talking about observations today because, even in a one-minute snippet, where she’s talking about things she’s talked about before, Conchita Wurst is mesmerizing. First, watch her hands. She has an interesting habit of playing with her rings when she talks, twisting them round and round and up and down her fingers, and she does it all the time. Personally, I think it’s lovely. Very feminine, quite sexy, and it draws attention to her hands. Which, frankly, is not a bad thing at all. After all, she has beautiful expressive hands (gorgeous skin) and, as my mother will tell you, you should always draw attention to your best features, which she definitely does here.

Conchita Wurst is Mesmerizing, But Where Is That Camera Going? (Video) | Leo Sigh

[thingstolovefor]

Stop smelling like discrimination and lack of representation! #Love it! 

[ida-b-wells-b-whippin-yo-ass-de]

omfffggg

[micdotcom]

This white woman’s shocking account of police brutality reveals the importance of the #BlackLivesMatter movement

Molly Suzanna shared a story on Facebook that she had never told before: when she was 19, she ran a red light while crying, then was pulled over and forcefully removed and beaten by a police officer. She explains in the letter that she believes her situation would have been even worse had she been black — and she ends the letter with an important call to action.

[lanie-love09]

The public needs to hear more stories like this as well.

[lennybaby2]

Wow. This is horrifying.

[the-sarkai]

Cops are drunk on power. Add any ism to that, you have a bunch of abusive, gun wielding, trained to kill, non empathetic, killers running around.

[alexandra-erin]

This woman got hauled out of a window, beaten, stripped, tortured, and humiliated, and she still is able to understand how white privilege saved her life.