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on being a fat girl with anxiety

anxiety is that music creeping up on you in a horror film, It’s hard to hear until you’re wrapt, vulnerable and scared. Fat people always die in horror movies. Fat people are always the bad guy. Too slow to run, too heavy to carry. Left behind.

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Bisexuals in a hetero relationship have no right to invade LGBTQ spaces.

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… bisexuals … invading lgBtq spaces

I’m really curious how you figure that

oh no the french are invading france

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These biphobes dont want bisexual people to actually be bisexual…

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OP be like

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it’s a well known fact that bisexuals are actually a bunch of bees in a trench coat

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This is what a real, qualified OBGYN will tell you about what women feel when they get an abortion

Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.

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That last statement about regret is so important, because so many people don’t understand what it is or what causes it. Anti-choicers exploit this by manipulating pregnant people and creating doubt, which only increases the likelihood of regret, no matter what decision the pregnant person makes. You know what is best for you, even if it takes some time to figure it out.

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More posts on Dr. Willie Parker

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I’m here for girls who don’t have socially acceptable reactions to their own abuse and mistreatment. I’m here for the girls who feel overwhelmed with shame and guilt, who have become bitter and hostile, who are defensive, who are unforgiving of their abusers and other people who try to hurt them.

Healing and recovery take time. Please be patient and gentle with yourself.

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Fun fact

Native Americans weren’t allowed US citizenship until 1924.

Let that sink in. We lived here first…for thousands of years. And less than a hundred years ago we were finally given citizenship.

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We also fought in WWI despite not being US citizens.

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In Arizona, natives weren’t granted the right to vote until 1948. Think how that type of neglect ties into resource colonization as infrastructure was developed within years prior.

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In addition: the indigenous peoples of Canada were not recognized as Human Beings until the year 1960. Now let that shit sink in.

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In the US it wasn’t until 1968 that the Indian Civil Rights Act was passed and allowed for the right to freedom of speech / assembly / press, a jury trial, the right to an attorney etc. It’s so fucking frustrating.

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and it wasn’t until 1978 that we were legally allowed to practice our own religions. in a nation founded on religious freedoms, it was illegal to practice our own religions. in our own country. how fucked up is that?

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Aaaand Native Americans weren’t entitled to their own languages (had no legal rights to teach them in their schools, use them in business) until the Native American Language Act of 1990.

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I teach this to my students, because NONE of it is in a single textbook. This is and act of indoctrination

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Boosting because I didn’t know any of this.

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These facts should be known by all.

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Colonization and racism, friends. This is what that looks like. This is our history, North America.

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Republicans are like “Trump isn’t the Republican Party!” And actually, they’re correct! His name is technically “Republican Party’s Monster”

Is there room for me in here? This bus seat/discourse/classroom/throne? Y’know, I’ve been on my own or, just me and my ass since the airlines invented first class where I don’t even fit! My ass and I are too grand for this bullshit. More perfect, though, are my thighs. Too shaking, unsettling everyone with eyes I am HERE, they say. But about that- Is there room for me in here? This democracy/change room/country/kin? They gave my gender an apple and then called us SIN. They demonized the skirts that I fit my ass in... and then asked for money. I don’t know about you, but I think that’s kinda funny.

My belly doesn’t fit that poem, sir and nothing is on display. I know, you’ve learned to think this way but fat doesn’t mean anything but just that- fat. Like thin. We thicken and we begin again.

#fat #fatshion #spokenword #poetry #Calgary #Juliet #plussize

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let me tell you something: no one is going to look at you, broken and shattered and think - damn, you are beautiful. no one is going to come pick up your broken pieces off the floor and assemble them into a beautiful whole. hell, you won’t even look at yourself and think - I made broken look beautiful. you know why? because all those writers lied to you. yes, all those with their poems of scraped knuckles and blood dripping down chins, pomegranate songs and loves that ripped through you like hurricanes. liars. so you and i, we are going to make a plan. you are not going to romanticize days when your brain tells you to smash that mirror, you are not going to romanticize the lover who doesn’t understand you but still writes about you. here is what you are going to romanticize instead: you are going to romanticize the first day of spring, its gentle hands all over your body, lifting you up until you are as light as a feather. you are going to romanticize the tea and honey kind of love, no hurricanes, but sunshine that builds you up from within, that helps you make it through the worst days. you are going to romanticize gentle hands of a friend in yours, telling you that it is going to be okay. because it is. and don’t trust poets, we’re no good, we love pretending that our jagged edges tantamount to a beautiful disaster, but in reality - there ain’t nothing beautiful about shaky hands holding a cigarette and empty eyes staring at the cracks in the walls. you know what is beautiful, instead? the days when you can look at yourself in the mirror and smile, scars and all. music that makes your soul flow like a river, books that offer comfort, families flocking together like overgrown birds to keep you safe and warm, friends that give you strength when you can find none, lovers who make you laugh through tears. baby, from now on you are going to romanticize healing; honey dripping down your fingertips, August nights that stick to your skin, the day you find your purpose, long car rides and singing so loud that no one can shut you up now. bad news: no one is coming to save you. good news: you can save yourself.

Lana Rafaela (via internal-acceptance-movement)

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Captions on photos! Learn from our mistakes!

#diy #pebblefloor #grout #homeownership #tutorial #howto

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Colonize This! Young Women Of Color On Today’s Feminism — Daisy Hernandez

“As young women of color, we have both a different and similar relationship to feminism as the women in our mothers’ generation…The difference is that now we talk about these issues in women’s studies classes, in classrooms that are multicultural but xenophobic and in a society that pretends to be racially integrated but remains racially profiled.”

Redefining Realness — Janet Mock

“When I think of identity, I think of our bodies and souls and the influences of family, culture, and community - the ingredients that make us. James Baldwin describes identity as ‘the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self.’ The garment should be worn “loose,” he says, so we can always feel our nakedness. ‘This trust in one’s nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one’s robes.’ I’m still journeying toward that place where I’m comfortable in this nakedness, standing firmly in my interlocking identities.”

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches — Audre Lorde

“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”

Feminism Is For Everybody — bell hooks

“Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression…Practically, it is a definition which implies that all sexist thinking and action is the problem, whether those who perpetuate it are female or male, child or adult.”

This Bridge Called My Back: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment — Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

“We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want freedom for all of us.”

Literally anything by Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989. From her article “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color”:

“Contemporary feminist and antiracist discourses have failed to consider intersectional identities such as women of color…I consider how the experiences of women of color are frequently the product of intersecting patterns of racism and sexism, and how these experiences tend not to be represented within the discourses of either feminism or antiracism.”

Want more recs? Another Round host and glorious human Tracy Clayton compiled a list of 13 more books on feminism and intersectionality by women of color.

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THIS. MORE OF THIS!

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This happened in Canada; Calgary, Alberta.

Tweets by Nakawē Writer Mari.

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