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grumpy neuroAtypical mamabear / ambitious baby-cat down2dream / aspiring to grow happy & fulfilled

[proletarianprincess666-blog]

It's like a thing for welders to cover their masks w stickers. Most I've seen are trademarks. I'd like mine to be hella hard(er) femme, starting w this gem from @lovestruckprints 💚😍🎀👌💪🔥 . . . If you have sweet stickers to spare, hit me up!!

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

It’s bad too to tell you how tired I am — so maddeningly tired — but maybe I have to be tired to wake up — I’ve had enough — I feel bored to distraction with people and things — I’m ready for my own company again and lots of it too.

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[proletarianprincess666-blog]

#shameless #selfie (ft #underboob) bc I don't feel hella dysphoric today #somedaysmybodydoesntfeelborrowedandillfitting

[8-bitfiction]

[arjuna-vallabha]

Ancient Mesopotamia scene

[fleurjardin]

An Ancient Custom (1877) by Edwin Longsden Long

[latenightcornerstore]

Dating the boy who liked wearing dresses was the closest I ever came to feeling understood by a straight man.   Nights spent straddling his lap while I did his makeup: letting him cover my throat in his lipstick.

GENDERBENT, by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)

(You can find other poems like this in my limited edition chapbook, Not a Girl! Orders close on January 31st and then it’s gone forever! order here)

[wordsnquotes]

Sometimes, I’m the mess. Sometimes, I’m the broom. On the hardest days, I have to be both.

Rudy Francisco (via wordsnquotes)

[positivedoodles]

[drawing of a green plant in a blue pot saying “It’s okay if you’re still figuring out who you are.” in a purple speech bubble.]

[uglyrot-deactivated20181207]

[pairedaeza]

I have lost myself in the sea many times with my ear full of freshly cut flowers, with my tongue full of love and agony.

Federico García Lorca, excerpt of ‘Gacela De La Huida’. Tr. Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili.

Me he perdido muchas veces por el mar con el oído lleno de flores recién cortadas, con la lengua llena de amor y de agonía.

(via pairedaeza)

[coocoolah-deactivated20190601]

Trans women are willful women; women who have to insist on being women, who have to keep insisting, again and again, often in the face of violent and repeated acts of misgendering. Any feminists who do not stand up, who do not wave their arms to protest against this misgendering, have become straightening rods.

Sara Ahmed, “Living a Lesbian Life” (via coocoolah)

[wordsnquotes]

When you can tell your story and it doesn’t make you cry, that’s when you know you’ve healed.

Unknown (via wordsnquotes)

[mushmommy]

Pleurotus pulmonarius

[mariondavies]

Josephine Baker in Siren of the Tropics, 1927

[coocoolah-deactivated20190601]

We can rebuild our houses with feminist tools; with de-colonial precision we can bring the house of whiteness down. Their body is not the world. A world can be opened up when it is not organised around their bodies.

Sara Ahmed, “White Men” (via coocoolah)

[luthienne]

I want it to stop and am furious that fear has found me here, in the sun where people are laughing, doing ordinary things.

Joy Harjo, from A Map to the Next World (via luthienne)

[seabois]

“Here is a handful of shadow I have brought back to you: this decay, this hope, this mouth- full of dirt, this poetry.”

Margaret Atwood, from “Mushrooms” in Selected Poems: Volume 2  (via down-the-rabbith0le)