LadyQueerio

Someone once said I had "a lot of personality." They meant it as an insult, but I like to think it was more of a compliment.

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If we empty out hearts every night, they won’t get too heavy or cluttered. Our hearts will stay light and open with lots of room for good, new things to come. -Glennon Doyle Melton 

A year later, we remember and remain strong. |4/15/13-4/15/14|

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This actually made me fucking cry.

[grayscalewinter]

I find this really fucking relevant today of all days.

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Life in 20s.

[dirt-germ]

From my Limited Edition zine You Don’t Know Me, made for Sticky Institute’s Feed The Animals 2014 (now all sold out, sorry!)

More of my zines and artwork on my Etsy store <3 <3 <3

www.gemmaflack.com

[onegirlrhumba]

the fact that “love your body” rhetoric shifts the responsibility for body acceptance over to the individual, and away from communities, institutions, and power, is also problematic. individuals who do not love their bodies, who find their bodies difficult to love, are seen as being part of the problem. the underlying assumption is that if we all loved our bodies just as they are, our fat-shaming, beauty-policing culture would be different. if we don’t love our bodies, we are, in effect, perpetuating normative (read: impossible) beauty standards. if we don’t love our individual bodies, we are at fault for collectively continuing the oppressive and misogynistic culture. if you don’t love your body, you’re not trying hard enough to love it. in this framework, your body is still the paramount focus, and one way or another, you’re failing. it’s too close to the usual body-shaming, self-policing crap, albeit with a few quasi-feminist twists, for comfort.

on “loving your body” (via silkchemise)

Pretty sure I’ve reblogged this before, but the sentiment still rings true. White supremacy makes me feel ugly as shit 99% of the time, and in the moments where I express my feelings of ugliness to feminist friends I am met with “why don’t you love yourself better?” “Omg you need a lots of self care” (which i dont always have the luxury of time/money for) and the worst of them, “Honey I think something’s really wrong with you, you need professional help :(“

Man, fuck that shit. The only “help” I need is good friends who want to help tear down the system with me. More often then not, however, my self-esteem dips and emotional responses to systemic oppressions usually result in my being told I’m not doing a good enough job of loving myself, instead of recognizing that we live in a world that makes it virtually impossible for marginalized (fat, brown, differently abled) folks to love our bodies in the first place.

(via tothedirigible)

Important

(via iamoffendedbecause)

[staythatswhatimeanttosay]

By request: this is how much I love you guys. This could be considered the blooper reel of our wedding. 

Photography credit goes to the awesome Megan Clemence. Ch-ch-check her out!

[staythatswhatimeanttosay]

In case you are a fan of same sex unions, weddings in general,or are just really itching to know what I look like (or my wife, as I haven’t posted a picture of her yet[she’s the adorable one in the suspenders]) here’s the promised wedding picture spam.

Best day of my life. 

[ladyqueerio]

#feelings

[bobbycaputo]

‘Humanae' Portraits Match People of Different Ethnicities With Their Pantone Color

Brazilian fine art photographer Angelica Dass‘ series Humanae identifies portrait subjects from around the world using the Pantone color system. Using an 11×11 pixel swatch from her subjects’ faces, Dass matches them to corresponding Pantone colors, creating an abundant and unique catalog of skin tones that reflects the world’s diversity beyond the categorizations we have long been confined to. We recently asked her more about the ongoing project.

[ladyqueerio]

I love this.

[trynottodrown]

[justkeepbreathingnowwrites]

For God so loved the world

that He gave us shadows and wild deer,

snowflakes, novels, fingertips: none the same.

God so loved the world that She gave us

songs to sing, rivers to ride

peaches to eat, amethyst to mine.

For God so loved the sun that He gave her

[worldssmallesttrampoline]

[itmakessenseinmyheadok]

This says a lot about people

[queerbombing]

1) Bromances are based on mocking and rejecting queerness — The entire joke about the SethRogen-JamesFranco bromances of the world is that they’re parodies of queerness. Literally, the humor is about making queerness the butt of the joke (so to speak)....

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