why i can't predict the weather past the storm

ABOUT: monica. 26. dc. queer, femme, crafty, fat, nerdy, anxious, pisces. doing the fandom thing at clawsandsympathy.

[siberianpine]

[micdotcom]

Sportscaster Dale Hansen defends student wrestler Mack Beggs and takes a stand against transphobia

[djkoenig-deactivated20140905]

(◡‿◡✿)

(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿ “hold my flower”

[chronically-ill-dandy]

✿＼(｡-_-｡) “Kick his ass, baby.  I got yo flower.”

[kahguyaht]

i found it

the original post

i found it

[eviesrealitychangesdaily-deacti]

this should have the opportunity to be on everyone’s blog. 

[pinkpeppermints]

A relic

[madfanboyinablueblog-deactivate]

The origin story…

[nbhowdy]

My friend really nailed this one on the head

[realgirlsgaming]

Yes!!!

[rahona-ostromi-archived-deactiv]

[pastthestorm]

if this election has ruined Leverage for me in addition to Parks and Rec I'm gonna scream

[morefunthanb4]

[agnethaspinkheartcutoutjumpsuit]

i can’t stop thinking about this tweet

[amarieeah]

[kittymcstink-deactivated2017080]

[schmergo]

The Pride and the Prejudice

2 Proud 2 Prejudiced

Pride and Prejudice: Netherfield Drift

Pride & Prejudice

Pride Five

Pride & Prejudice 6

Prejudice 7

[nonimaginaryfriend]

it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a 10-second car must be in want of a race

[woahzone]

i prefer guys who make small dick jokes about themselves over guys who make big dick jokes about themselves

[driad-deactivated20160522]

I got a medium dick

It can talk to ghosts

[k-not-okay]

I nearly spat out my tea

[innocencelives]

Childhood trauma can affect a person so greatly because of its prescence in the time of developmemt. Events that would normally change a person become embedded in every fiber of one’s identity. It is this time of life which is so crucial to your entire future. This is the unique nature of C-PTSD, which doesn’t merely change a person, it creates them. It builds every trait, interest, and understanding of the world with this toxin. Nothing is unaffected or unaltered because all there is to alter was created by the trauma. Moving forward is not moving back to before the trauma, it is in every essence a rebirth and reeducation of life itself. To move on we can not erase, because to erase trauma’s effect we in theory erase ourselves.

Understanding Childhood C-PTSD (via ughptsd)

[avoidantmoth]

[manages to be obnoxiously clingy and yet frustratingly distant and avoidant all at the same time]

[pastthestorm]

fat acceptance 102

So awhile ago I compiled these links to send to a friend after a really good conversation in which I introduced some of the ideas of fat acceptance and health at every size, and I figured I’d post them here, too. I tried to choose links that cover a wide variety of topics within FA. They’re ordered roughly from “most introductory” to “most complex” in terms of FA concepts. If anything is missing that you think should be included, let me know!

But Don’t You Realize Fat Is Unhealthy? – Kate Harding. Her FAQ is good, too. More evidence for the disconnect between weight and health are in the sidebar at the Fat Nutritionist and cited at the bottom of this post. You may find the Health at Every Size WIki helpful and/or interesting. EDIT: The Epidemiology of Obesity: Public Health Crisis or Moral Panic? by Paul Campos does an excellent job of addressing the problems with the medical discourse surrounding obesity. Is Fat a Feminist Issue? at BFDBlog (spoiler alert: YES… and a followup post) The Thin Privilege Checklist by Sibz. If you’re unfamiliar with privilege as a sociological concept, Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack is a good introduction. The Defiant Absurdity of the Diet Industry and Our Problem With Public Health by Lesley Kinzel. (She’s since moved domains to Two Whole Cakes, but you should check around her archives at Fatshionista, too.)  The Words We Learn to Read; Reclaiming Fat by Marianne Kirby at The Rotund  Proposed and I Was Fat Shamed by Melissa McEwan at Shakesville. I found “Proposed” difficult after reading about fat acceptance (as the movement has dubbed itself) for two years. The “I Was Fat Shamed” thread contains a lot of personal stories by blog community members; I was alternately enraged and deeply saddened.

[pastthestorm]

I put this together many years ago -- reblogging for my own findability. Please message me if there's something you think I should add! I'd love to include more voices of color.

[itgetsfatter-blog]

New Workshops!

It Gets Fatter is a body positivity project started by queer fat people of color for all fat people of color. We are a tiny grassroots collective based in Toronto, Canada, and are now booking workshops for Fall 2016/Winter 2017! Bring us to your campus or organization! We present on a wide variety of topics, including Body Positivity, Redefining Health, and Queer Desirability. Our sessions are open to everyone, and we also provide closed workshops and peer support for fat people of color. We believe body positivity is necessary for any social movement that works towards social justice, as our bodies are the most vulnerable and often most targeted sites of oppression. We present nuanced, well-researched and thoughtful critiques of the medical industrial complex, body fascism, and the intersections of body policing with sex/gender/race/ability/class etc. 

We are committed to creating more spaces where these kinds of difficult conversations can take place! Keep reading to view a list of our current workshops, and email us at [email protected] if you have any more questions! 

Keep reading

[itgetsfatter-blog]

PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU SUPPORT THE WORK WE DO!!!!

XOXO IGF

[pastthestorm]

(bad thing happens)

me: wtf i don't deserve this (good thing happens)

me: ...

me: wtf i don't deserve this

[lithicc]

Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.

[howmanymoredays-deactivated2013]

Thank you.

[myvaginaisanuclearreactor-deact]

I will always re-blog this

[skywritingg]

I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.

[mexica-boricua-deactivated20180]

Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.

[thewellofastarael]

[manynamedshe]

I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y'all gon learn today.

[nyokoko]

Teach the children.

[fifty-shadesofgay]

also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.

IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.

no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.