[misswallflower]

Kinfolk Issue Sixteen: The Best Medicine

a series of portraits of people expressing themselves through laughter.

[lyricsinwonderland]

You let me under your dress, But you won’t show me your heart.

“The Trouble with Us” - Marcus Marr & Chet Faker (via lyricsinwonderland)

[jonqueres]

GAHHHHHH 

[hellyeahblackmodels]

Dolce & Gabbana S/S 2016(x)

[avwg]

iceage

[floozys-deactivated20180908]

no offence but when girls stop you mid sentence like “okay sorry but… (insert compliment that makes you feel great all day) …anyway, continue!” > every single song a man has ever written about a woman

[ok2befat]

Dissecting a fat hating meme

CN for fat hate & a photos of human organs.

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So, you may have seen the below- some of the text is chopped off- it also includes language about fat “strangling” organs (pretty sure, not a thing).

Where does this photo of a heart come from? It’s from a slide show about heart transplants, photo number 9.

The photo’s original text is below.

This is a healthy heart, being transplanted INTO a person who needs a heart transplant. 

It is NOT a heart taken out of a dead fat person who died of Fat Heart, which is not a thing.

Fat haters lie. They do it all the time. 

Never forget that.

[joeybelladonna]

This is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time.

Sure, “fat heart” isnt a thing but being obese does cause heart problems as the heart has to grow in order to pump more blood around the body which causes it to strain and struggle just for doing its job.

This is a real picture of a normal heart next to the heart of an obese person’s.

Why do people constantly want to encourage being obese despite the many health risks it carries?

[ok2befat]

Fat haters lie.

“Martti Tenhu, chief medical examiner in Helsinki, Finland, illustrates the differences between a normal human heart and one enlarged by alcoholism and high blood pressure. Covered in scar tissue, the enlarged organ is nearly twice the normal size. Such alcoholic cardiomyopathy weakens the heart so that it is unable to pump blood adequately.”

“Alcoholic cardiomyopathy is a disease in which the chronic long-term abuse of alcohol… leads to heart failure.”

The original photo is from the National Geographic and does not mention the size of the person who had the enlarged heart. 

Fat haters lie. 

For a group of people who yell about science all the time, they sure do love clipping off the actual text included with the original photos and replacing it with dishonest garbage.

If you take the time to double check their sources, this is basically how it always goes.  

They will say anything to advance their bigotry. Don’t listen to them.

It’s ok to be fat! 

[stay-human]

Beyond the brilliant way Alan Rickman gave life to a brilliantly written character in one of my all-time favourite childhood series, Alan Rickman was vocal (without fucking up) about Palestine. In 2005 he co-created the play My Name is Rachel Corrie about the brave American activist who was killed when an Israeli bulldozer ran her over in Gaza while she was trying to stop a Palestinian home from being destroyed. In 2006 Alan Rickman publicly denounced the political censorship of the play in the United States.

“Rachel Corrie lived in nobody’s pocket but her own…her voice is like a clarion in the fog and should be heard.” - Alan Rickman

It’s difficult to find an artist/actor/writer in popular culture who you can respect both for what their art has given you and for their awareness and humanity–especially when it comes to an issue like Palestine which, for the Northwestern part of the globe, is misrepresented by so much racism, hypocrisy, and a large deficit of empathy. Rickman’s ability to recognize the need to spread Corrie’s story despite all the bullshit about it being ‘controversial’–that understanding and the ability to follow it with action is what makes his loss so sad for me because it matters even more than the fact he was a brilliant actor.

[fernlets-deactivated20190714]

“hate breeds hate” = “i am attempting to absolve my guilt as a privileged person by shifting the blame to you, the marginalized person, for your own oppression, and thereby invalidating your anger at having your life controlled by a system that privileged people put in place to disadvantage you in several areas”

[sashayed]

Critics assert that modern students are losing their powers of critical thinking, but what we are actually seeing is that power in action: students are using their critical faculties to uncover structures of power in their own academic and social environments. They are clearly recognising that discourse and ideas can be powerful, and that is precisely why they struggle to reshape the discursive terrain, to change the conversation in ways that further their political and moral commitments. Humanities professors should be proud. This is what’s so odd about the language of coddling and hypersensitivity. If students are really so fragile, if they’re really hiding from scary ideas in a thoughtless cocoon of political correctness, why are they so often to be found out on the campus, demonstrating, protesting, petitioning and organising? That’s not what hiding looks like. It’s not what coddling looks like. In fact, the people showing greatest signs of coddling are those professors for whom the classroom has been a safe space for way too long. Now they’re apparently afraid that their “small or accidental slights”, as Lukianoff and Haidt put it, are going to get pounced on. They’d much rather students “question their own emotional reactions” than question the assumptions coming from the front of the classroom.

Tom Cutterham, “Today’s students are anything but coddled,” Times Higher Education

(via sashayed)

[shinyandloud]

People on such short trips usually don’t stick around long enough to realize how ineffective they are being.  In Uganda, I got used to seeing groups of young people come for week-long visits at the orphanage where taught English. They would play with the kids, give them a bracelet or something, and then leave all-smiles, thinking they just saved Africa. I was surprised when the day after the first group left, exactly zero of the kids were wearing the bracelet they had received the day prior. The voluntourists  left thinking they gave the kids something they didn’t have before (and with bragging rights for life). But the kids didn’t care, because what they really wanted was school uniforms, their school fees to be paid, guaranteed meals, basic healthcare, and the like — the basics.   Worse, they can even be harmful to children who struggle with abandonment issues.  This should not be understated; have you ever considered the negative impact it routinely has on kids after they bond with someone for a week, and then that person disappears from their life? If your justification for going on these trips is “seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces”, then you’re part of the problem.

7 Reasons Why Your Two Week Trip To Haiti Doesn’t Matter: Calling Bull on “Service Trips” - The Almost Doctor’s Channel

(via shinyandloud)

[lithicc]

basically, the best way to understand it, the peasants and proles in Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. weren’t “activists” they were politicized people who lived political lives not separate from their lives as workers/dispossessed

with activists you get one group of people who, for the most part, especially with the NGO-ization of social justice/struggle, try to separate themselves from the people they are struggling for and become specialized, that is, devote all their life to this concept of “activism” that is separated, and exalted because of its expertise, from the politicized life of dispossessed people. This actually leads to the the depoliticization of people who feel like they don’t have the time or knowledge to become specialized activists. 

the full piece goes into a lot more detail and explains this better than i can

but tl;dr from my own historical analysis it seems like the creation of “activists” as a specialization has actually weakened social struggles in the last decades because people have been conditioned into waiting for the activists to act for them or to lead them. In history you don’t see this whenever there was a large scale social movement or class struggle. The Haitians didn’t wait around for activists to organize them and lead them to overthrow the French. 

[passion-fruit-and-holy-bread]

King Krule aka Archy Marshall photographed by Soraya Zaman If you never listened to it, make sure to check out the music he makes cause it’s too fucking good

[iztac-coatl-deactivated20190408]

Battle of Mactan by Manuel Pañares

Filipino warrior Lapu-Lapu kills Spanish conquistador Magellan

[nondeadnative-deactivated201902]

@anitoanum

[anitoanum]

Thanks for the tag! I love this photo but the history nerd in me freaks out when I see all the white. Our warriors wore RED. *makes a note to one day Photoshop this photo for historical accuracy*

[stay-human]

Beyond the brilliant way Alan Rickman gave life to a brilliantly written character in one of my all-time favourite childhood series, Alan Rickman was vocal (without fucking up) about Palestine. In 2005 he co-created the play My Name is Rachel Corrie about the brave American activist who was killed when an Israeli bulldozer ran her over in Gaza while she was trying to stop a Palestinian home from being destroyed. In 2006 Alan Rickman publicly denounced the political censorship of the play in the United States.

It’s difficult to find an artist/actor/writer in popular culture who you can respect both for what their art has given you and for their awareness and humanity–especially when it comes to an issue like Palestine which, for the Northwestern part of the globe, is misrepresented by so much racism, hypocrisy, a large deficit of empathy. Rickman’s ability to recognize and feel the need to spread Corrie’s story despite all the bullshit about it being ‘controversial’–that understanding and the ability to follow it with action is what makes his loss so sad for me because it matters even more than the fact he was a brilliant actor.

[lisazemo420]

White alternative culture is so weird to me because these punk/goth/whatever kids/adults are out here with Mohawks, dreads, body and face piercings, and tattoos and so much of it is stuff from cultures that are not their own. Once I even saw some white goth chick with a bindi and a nath. It’s clear that they know poc are outside mainstream culture, that we and our traditions are taboo and scary. Then they put it on as a costume against mainstream white culture which appropriates, steals, and excludes poc also. Like what kind of paradoxical irony type shit is this?

[this-gay-guy]