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@mspurji
[image description: a field of black with all caps text that reads: Soon y’all, more self-care! Practical Inclusive For you! Read more below]
Oh, hi there.
So it is coming, y’all.
Before we get this here doohickey restarted I need to tell y’all some things.
First up-
Rules.
Yes, we have rules here.
1.) Our self-care and how we talk about it will not be gendered or adhere to bullshit like toxic masculinity, TERFness etc. Nah son.
2.) How we talk about things here, will get hard for some people. You might have to google a term, or sit with your personal discomfort about a subject.
3.) Things won’t be all funsies and pedicures.
4.) Please, if you see something here that you have something to add to, an experience, etc please say so. This is not the void.
5.) This will not be a space that will put up with racism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, etc. If you want to be about those things, do it in your own space. I have zero tolerance for these things. Now, as we get started here is the plan.
I’ll be republishing some older material. I will have new material as well. What you find here will be more action focused than what you’ll find in the new book. Speaking of, when is the new book coming out? I don’t know yet.
What can you expect here?
We’re going to talk about doing the fun stuff, easy at home facials, hair care, ideas for ways we can teamwork stuff out. We’re going to talk about hard stuff like the ways we can learn to budget if need be, our relationships with money, being poor. We’re going to talk about living in this time when so many of us marginalized folks are struggling.
I have some other ideas (feel free to chime in here y’all, for real)
Vlogging? Would y’all be into that? I’d like to try it out and already have a YouTube channel, so could that be a thing?
I will likely republish material from here to another platform. I’m thinking it will likely be Medium or maybe WordPress.
How can you support SCLAB and help me make it the big wonderful thing I want it to be?
Boost it! Share the links far and wide my homies.
As we get rolling, I will also do a bit of monetizing. I will operate with as much transparency as I can. Likely I won’t accept advertising, but will use affiliate linking to make some extra coin to keep this going.
Now, when is it happening?
MAY 1 2017!!!
I will reblog this post every now and then. I will also be posting up a whole new introduction to your host as well as putting together some resources to help with everything from make-up to finances.
Lastly, I promise to do my level best to be inclusive and good to you folks.
Thanks for reading and I hope you’ll join me here, we’ve got great work to do.
This person is legitimately awesome. Self care is not all about frilly shit. It is about keeping yourself healthy as well. I can’t wait to see what is coming.
Samantha Bee on fact-checking Trump’s campaign: “Calling a liar a liar isn’t an opinion if you can prove it”
When faced with a candidate like Donald Trump — who lies as instinctively as he breathes — it’s natural to be confused about how, exactly, to handle the constant stream of misinformation emanating from his campaign. But as has become increasingly clear in recent months, many reporters simply aren’t doing their jobs when it comes to fact-checking Trump, and it’s adding up.
So when Samantha Bee’s late-night show, Full Frontal, came back from hiatus, the host had some choice words for the media — especially Commander-in-Chief Forum moderator Matt Lauer — that keeps letting Trump’s lies skate by.
I am pleased to show you my kinky christmas card designs now that I have finished them all! You’ll have already seen the ‘Silent Night’ design (aided by the fantastic alternative/fetish photography of @gt6photo ) And you might have also seen the ‘Deck your mouths’ design to but in a different style…I decided to update it as I wasn’t happy with the initial drawing. And we also have the Naughty List, with a space to write the recipients name on the front! How fun is that?!
I’m getting these printed by moo.com and they’ll be paired with festive gold envelopes, and most important of all, available to buy at SWAMP in Bristol on December 13th!
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People now are like, “Your right to free speech doesn’t mean you can express an offensive opinion” Like what the fuck does right to free speech mean, then?
Don’t Forget: Donald Trump Wants To Bang His Daughter
My teacher was literally JUST talking about how creepy that is
omg thought it was just the one time everyone was talking about
Just so y'all know, these are grooming tactics to molest kids. My abuser told me the same things, “if you were around when I was your age, I’d date you” and “You’re sexy” “You’re so hot” and I’m his daughter. His biological daughter, related by blood. It’s absolutely disgusting and no parent should be creating sexual/romantic scenarios with their children like “if my child wasn’t my child, I’d date them” kind of bullshit that Trump is saying because it’s basically telling the child they have a sexual interest in them and the only thing standing between the parent pursuing that interest and the child is the law.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN MY PRETTIES!!!!
The Problem With Little White Girls (and Boys): Why I Stopped Being A Voluntourist
In case you’re interested in hearing from a reformed Gurl - here’s Pippa Biddle’s experience. Worth a read.
White people aren’t told that the color of their skin is a problem very often. We sail through police check points, don’t garner sideways glances in affluent neighborhoods, and are generally understood to be predispositioned for success based on a physical characteristic (the color of our skin) we have little control over beyond sunscreen and tanning oil.
After six years of working in and traveling through a number of different countries where white people are in the numerical minority, I’ve come to realize that there is one place being white is not only a hindrance, but negative — most of the developing world.
In high school, I travelled to Tanzania as part of a school trip. There were 14 white girls, 1 black girl who, to her frustration, was called white by almost everyone we met in Tanzania, and a few teachers/chaperones. $3000 bought us a week at an orphanage, a half built library, and a few pickup soccer games, followed by a week long safari.
Our mission while at the orphanage was to build a library. Turns out that we, a group of highly educated private boarding school students were so bad at the most basic construction work that each night the men had to take down the structurally unsound bricks we had laid and rebuild the structure so that, when we woke up in the morning, we would be unaware of our failure. It is likely that this was a daily ritual. Us mixing cement and laying bricks for 6+ hours, them undoing our work after the sun set, re-laying the bricks, and then acting as if nothing had happened so that the cycle could continue.
Basically, we failed at the sole purpose of our being there. It would have been more cost effective, stimulative of the local economy, and efficient for the orphanage to take our money and hire locals to do the work, but there we were trying to build straight walls without a level.
That same summer, I started working in the Dominican Republic at a summer camp I helped organize for HIV+ children. Within days, it was obvious that my rudimentary Spanish set me so far apart from the local Dominican staff that I might as well have been an alien. Try caring for children who have a serious medical condition, and are not inclined to listen, in a language that you barely speak. It isn’t easy. Now, 6 years later, I am much better at spanish and am still highly involved with the camp programing, fundraising, and leadership. However, I have stopped attending having finally accepting that my presence is not the godsend I was coached by non-profits, documentaries, and service programs to believe it would be.
You see, the work we were doing in both the DR and Tanzania was good. The orphanage needed a library so that they could be accredited to a higher level as a school, and the camp in the DR needed funding and supplies so that it could provide HIV+ children with programs integral to their mental and physical health. It wasn’t the work that was bad. It was me being there.
It turns out that I, a little white girl, am good at a lot of things. I am good at raising money, training volunteers, collecting items, coordinating programs, and telling stories. I am flexible, creative, and able to think on my feet. On paper I am, by most people’s standards, highly qualified to do international aid. But I shouldn’t be.
I am not a teacher, a doctor, a carpenter, a scientist, an engineer, or any other professional that could provide concrete support and long-term solutions to communities in developing countries. I am a 5’ 4" white girl who can carry bags of moderately heavy stuff, horse around with kids, attempt to teach a class, tell the story of how I found myself (with accompanying powerpoint) to a few thousand people and not much else.
Some might say that that’s enough. That as long as I go to X country with an open mind and a good heart I’ll leave at least one child so uplifted and emboldened by my short stay that they will, for years, think of me every morning.
I don’t want a little girl in Ghana, or Sri Lanka, or Indonesia to think of me when she wakes up each morning. I don’t want her to thank me for her education or medical care or new clothes. Even if I am providing the funds to get the ball rolling, I want her to think about her teacher, community leader, or mother. I want her to have a hero who she can relate to — who looks like her, is part of her culture, speaks her language, and who she might bump into on the way to school one morning.
After my first trip to the Dominican Republic, I pledged to myself that we would, one day, have a camp run and executed by Dominicans. Now, about seven years later, the camp director, program leaders and all but a handful of counselors are Dominican. Each year we bring in a few Peace Corps Volunteers and highly-skilled volunteers from the USA who add value to our program, but they are not the ones in charge. I think we’re finally doing aid right, and I’m not there.
Before you sign up for a volunteer trip anywhere in the world this summer, consider whether you possess the skill set necessary for that trip to be successful. If yes, awesome. If not, it might be a good idea to reconsider your trip. Sadly, taking part in international aid where you aren’t particularly helpful is not benign. It’s detrimental. It slows down positive growth and perpetuates the “white savior” complex that, for hundreds of years, has haunted both the countries we are trying to ‘save’ and our (more recently) own psyches. Be smart about traveling and strive to be informed and culturally aware. It’s only through an understanding of the problems communities are facing, and the continued development of skills within that community, that long-term solutions will be created.
Originally published on pippabiddle.com
I don’t understand american school years what the fuck is a freshman or a sophomore why do you have these words instead of the numbers
what why would you use numbers
so IT FUCKING MAKES SENSE WHAT THE HELL IS A SOFT MOORE OR A FRESH MAN WHY ARE THE MEN FRESH
America makes no sense, as usual.
bless the person that actually made the chart
laughter from France
France what the fuck
Elvira Mistress Of The Dark promotional photo for Movieland Wax Museum’s Chamber Of Horrors (1984)
Cosplayers, let me help you with your wigs.
Occasionally I’ll search the tags on tumblr for wigspiration. I’m not a cosplayer, I just wear wigs for the hell of it. I buzz my real hair and wear synthetic wigs daily. Now, I often see posts of people looking for inexpensive places to purchase wigs. I notice a lot of people buy their wigs specifically from companies that produce wigs for cosplaying. That’s all well and good if you have the cash to spend on them, and are looking for a specific hair piece, like something white/brightly colored, or custom. For natural colors, let me suggest a couple of sites:
http://hairsisters.com/
http://www.hairwigharlem.com/
Fast shipping, pretty good customer service and a wide selection. You can also buy tracks here, if you regularly add hair to wigs, or like to make your own.
Now, as far as care. I’ve seen some people walking around conventions with some knotty, worn hair pieces. No matter how much you pay for them (to me it’s ridiculous to pay more than forty bucks for plastic hair, unless it’s a complicated, custom piece) if you want them to last, you have to treat them right. One, make sure you invest in a wig stand or head. This makes it easier to style the hair, as I know a lot of you guys do. It also goes a long way to keep very long wigs from tangling when not in use. I personally don’t use wig sprays of any kind. Note: the following tips are for wigs that are attached to a full cap or open cap. Some custom wigs have tracks that are attached to a stocking wig cap. I’ve only done these methods on full cap and mesh cap wigs.
If your synthetic fibers appear to be dry, or tangle easily, soak the entire wig in a bowl/sink/pot of water (cold or you will lose the curl pattern of your wig if it has one) and fabric softener. If you’re irritated by smells and dyes, get a FS without. You want to use enough so that the water feels slippery to the touch. This varies from fabric softener brand, so I can’t give you a real precision measurement. My general rule of thumb is to soak a wig overnight once a month if it’s newish, and as my wigs age, I will soak after a couple of wears. Once they start to tangle more easily I soak them even longer, maybe a couple of days at a time. I also don’t wash the FS out. It acts as a leave in conditioner on the wig and keeps the fibers shiny and new looking until I have to soak the wig again. I’ve had wigs I was about to toss out bounce back completely using this method. I’ve talked to some people that like to use a fabric softener spray as well (water and FS in a water bottle and spritzed on when needed) but this has never worked for me.
Now, you can comb your wet wig after it’s been soaking in fabric softener. I know this sounds crazy because it did to me, and I was terrified to try it, but it was far easier to comb a wet, softened wig than a dry one. And it didn’t disturb my curl pattern very much. Now, I still would not recommend doing this on a wig with tight ringlets, as I’ve never done it on a wig like that, and it might loosen the curl a lot more. I wear loosely waved wigs, think Vanessa Hudgen’s hair back when it was long. If you’re nervous about combing while wet, I would suggest at least finger combing and picking any stray tangles out with your fingers after you take your wig out of the fabric softener bath. You could detangle your wig dry, too. Just be careful not to pull too much on the fiber because you can pull hairs out, or just stress the fiber so much that it loses it’s smoothness and becomes more prone to tangling.
If your wig is so tangled that it seems like you ought to just toss it and get a new one, I would suggest doing the above steps, combing it, and then restyling using either boiling water or a hot tool (make sure to check if your hair can be heat styled. There should be some documentation with the wig that specifies this). I only buy synthetics that can be curled/straightened on low heat because I find that the fibers seem to last longer, but for those wigs that can’t have heat put on them, hot water is a great way to restyle. There are a couple of methods out there on youtube that show you how to do this effectively. I’ll share my favorites in another post.
I hope this post is useful to somebody. Questions? Comments?
Great advice.
More fun Quiet shots, this time from Colossalcon. All courtesy of the talented M1Photo, who you can find on Flickr or Facebook! The guy managed to make mid-day harsh sunlight work, and any photographer knows that’s no easy feat.
Check out that photosynthesis.
I know we’re mocking the objectification of women in video games, and the absurdity of their costuming and poses, which is awesome and important, but dude is rocking that cosplay.
how did he get up the tree?
American Horror Story - Official Posters Murder House (2011), Asylum (2012), Coven (2013), Freak Show (2014) & Hotel (2015)
OMG STOP THIS IS ADORABLE
mangohalwa
im the food
Oh. Okay. 🔥❤️
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
Christopher Lee
R.I.P.
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