All about the follow through

I am a blogger with a new found love of fitness and healthy eating. Trying to get my shit together, I don't know why I want it to be together though, I just do.

[towardsmorning]

To any trans women and transfeminine followers of mine, did you know there’s a pretty huge Etsy store which does gaff underwear and swimsuits specifically designed for trans people amongst its products? They go in a pretty decent range of sizes, including sizes for young girls, and while I do not personally know anyone who has used them, there’s a fuckton of positive reviews on the Etsy store. They have a ton of colours to choose from, different fabric choices, the works.

And for once they’re not marked “for crossdressers” too, they actually under “transgender”, so that’s (depressingly) unusual.

I’m mostly posting this because I’ve seen a lot of younger people recently in particular saying they never knew what gaffs were… a lot of people find them WAY MORE comfortable and convenient than tucking, so I would recommend looking into them if you’ve never done so before!

And even if you yourself don’t use or need this stuff, do pass this kind of info on to any friends of yours that might, guys! There’s always like a million more PSAs about transmasc stuff as opposed to transfem stuf tbh…

[lowreswunderbred]

[nnaacceb-blog]

Thannk you Jesus!

[reeeaper]

This is a real tweet from Donald trump in 2014. Oh my god

[uppityfemale]

We’re not trying to make anyone anything they’re not. We just want everyone to hold equal value.

[sprinkleofglitr]

Filming for #RedNoseDayActually with these absolute winners! http://ift.tt/2n1LLe9

[kiefbowl]

many things can be reinforced in a quick sentence if several things must be assumed for it to be true. “like she would ever be raped” relies on the idea that rape is an unintentional consequence of uncontrollable male lust for beautiful women, that women can be put on a scale of ugly to beautiful, and that women should, and then also that the scale is then accepted fact that is understood in all men to adhere, as in it’s objective, and that “ugly” women who claim to have been raped can be disregarded as lying, which can extend that there can be circumstances for any woman lying, so therefore even “objectively beautiful” women could lie, and then in that sentence the burden of rape, or lack thereof/the possibility, lies at the woman, so of course it means that rape is a woman’s fault, and really so much more could be said about the layers that are being enforced in six words.

most cultural platitudes are the same, and are hard to fight because of their very nature of being so heavy in context while appearing to be light and undeniable. 

read very carefully, always. it’s long hard work, but take apart things word by word and always try to do it over and over and over again. 

[brutereason]

For many, these past few days signal a first: the first time they have feared for their country, the first time they have doubted the sanctity of their government. But for others, the signs are a little more familiar. “I’m 75,” my grandmother shrugged, calm and utterly unfazed. “I’ve seen worse. The thing to remember is this: if you believe in what you have to say, then you must find a way to say it. This isn’t any worse, it’s just your turn.” Resistance has a history and a lineage that predates the United States, and that certainly predates Donald Trump. My grandmother may not use the word feminism in her daily speech, but she understands its meaning instinctively. She may not discuss the dictatorship she fled from in the language of colonialism, but she lived it. We joke about the stories we’ve all heard before: back in my day… But back in their day our parents and grandparents were twenty-somethings too. They were protesters and feminists and dissenters, too. If we look around us and don’t know what to do, we are forgetting that we already have the blueprints: immigrants who have done this all before. Resistance is not a genetic trait or a predisposition, it is a practice, and we have so much to learn.

Intergenerational Resistance | Bitch Media (via sociolab)

[woodmeat]

this is just my unprofessional opinion but fuck all that shit

[iheartchaos]

[lulz-time]

perfect wolverine face

[feminismandhappiness]

askhgfkfsfs I can’t LOOK AT HER FACE 😍

[ithelpstodream]

[extremedreameratwork]

I’M SCREAMING

[raymukada]

Legit Heterosexual™ Raymond Holt.

[lesbomatriarchy]

homophobes r always actin like same-gender parents gonna like…get mad when their kids aren’t gay…like no susan i promise u punishing people for who they like is 100% a straight ppl thing…

[thatssothreeeyedraven-deactivat]

[catsbeaversandducks]

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[tastefullyoffensive]

Watching anxiously as his favorite toy undergoes surgery.

[nnaacceb-blog]

Is he going to be okay doc?

[lingthusiasm]

Gretchen: On the International Space Station, you have astronauts from the US and from other English speaking countries and you have cosmonauts from Russia. And obviously it’s very important to get your communication right if you’re on a tiny metal box circling the Earth or going somewhere. You don’t want to have a miscommunication there because you could end up floating in space in the wrong way. And so one of the things that they do on the ISS – so first of all every astronaut and cosmonaut needs to be bilingual in English and Russian because those are the languages of space. Lauren: Yep. Wait, the language of space are English and Russian? I’m sorry, I just said ‘yep’ and I didn’t really think about it, so that’s a fact is it? Gretchen: I mean, pretty much, yeah, if you go on astronaut training recruitment forums, which I have gone on to research this episode… Lauren: You’re got to have a backup job, Gretchen. Gretchen: I don’t think I’m going to become an astronaut, but I would like to do astronaut linguistics. And one of the things these forums say, is, you need to know stuff about math and engineering and, like, how to fly planes and so on. But they also say, you either have to arrive knowing English and Russian or they put you through an intensive language training course. But then when they’re up in space, one of the things that they do is have the English native speakers speak Russian and the Russian speakers speak English. Because the idea is, if you speak your native language, maybe you’re speaking too fast or maybe you’re not sure if the other person’s really understanding you. Whereas if you both speak the language you’re not as fluent in, then you arrive at a level where where people can be sure that the other person’s understanding. And by now, there’s kind of this hybrid English-Russian language that’s developed. Not a full-fledged language but kind of a- Lauren: Space Creole! Gretchen: Yeah, a Space Pidgin that the astronauts use to speak with each other! I don’t know if anyone’s written a grammar of it, but I really want to see a grammar of Space Pidgin.

Excerpt from Episode 1 of Lingthusiasm: Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace. Listen to the full episode, read the transcript, or check out the show notes. (via lingthusiasm)

[hartokitchenette]