Prune Child

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Shaving has always been something I'm uncomfortable with- besides the physical discomfort of razor burn, it's easy for an obsessive personality to take a simple everyday task and turn it into an unhealthy obsession. For most of 2015, I stopped shaving, gave myself permission to stop fixating on my body and let it be, but I hid under sweaters in the summer, constricted my movement to make sure no one saw. It was every bit as much effort to hide as it was to shave. 2016 will be different. I refuse to be ashamed of keeping the hair nearly 100% I humans have and which men are allowed to keep without question. Instead of tolerating my body in its natural state, I will embrace it and love it and have fun with it. Let the world see and let the world snicker or wrinkle their noses. If I can support other women's choices for a living, I can stand proud myself. I think my mint green armpits are lovely and fun and Faye's, and anything that makes my life even a little brighter and easier is worth it. #dyedarmpits #2016willbemyyear #noshame #bodypositive

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I’ve moved!

i’ve moved my tumblr over to a new account- I’m @thewhatmachine now. new year, new internet presence, amirite...

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I've finally gotten as attached to my new bedroom as I was to my old one. It's taken a lot of little touches, but it feels like mine now, and not just a temporary rental.

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Started the year out with best friends and best love. Happy 2016.

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my world, right here.

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[suddenly has an attack of self-loathing]

me: wtf it's christmas

mental illness : this is my gift

[whydidithavetobeclowns]

Some ads are more tolerable than others.

[calystarose]

AIRPLANE KITTEHS!!!!!!!!!

[skaodi]

Dennis Basso Pre Fall 2016.

[prune-child-blog]

Having a snugly Christmas Adam.

[culturenlifestyle]

Anatomical Collages on Vintage Dictionary Paper

Spanish shop PRRINT composes vintage prints with a contemporary sensibility on up-cycled old dictionary book pages. By infusing anatomical sketches and flower illustrations, PRRINT creates a stunning union between nature, beauty and life. You can find other stunning designs which feature animal, botanical, insect illustrations on their Etsy shop.

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[deathstardevelopment]

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[browngirldecolonized-deactivate]

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

Assata Shakur (via tamarrud)

[fuckyeahmurraybookchin]

[…] Accordingly, we are fed a steady diet of reproaches by liberal and misanthropic environmentalists alike about how “we” as a species are responsible for the breakdown of the environment. One does not have to go to enclaves of mystics and gurus in San Francisco to find this species-centered, asocial view of ecological problems and their sources. New York City will do just as well. I shall not easily forget an “environmental” presentation staged by the New York Museum of Natural History in the seventies in which the public was exposed to a long series of exhibits, each depicting examples of pollution and ecological disruption. The exhibit which closed the presentation carried a startling sign, “The Most Dangerous Animal on Earth,” and it consisted simply of a huge mirror which reflected back the human viewer who stood before it. I clearly recall a black child standing before the mirror while a white school teacher tried to explain the message which this arrogant exhibit tried to convey. There were no exhibits of corporate boards of directors planning to deforest a mountainside or government officials acting in collusion with them. The exhibit primarily conveyed one, basically misanthropic, message: people as such, not a rapacious society and its wealthy beneficiaries, are responsible for environmental dislocations – the poor no less than the personally wealthy, people of color no less than privileged whites, women no less than men, the oppressed no less than the oppressor. A mythical human “species” had replaced classes; individuals had replaced hierarchies; personal tastes (many of which are shaped by a predatory media) had replaced social relationships; and the disempowered who live meager, isolated lives had replaced giant corporations, self-serving bureaucracies, and the violent paraphernalia of the State.

Murray Bookchin,

Society & Ecology

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fuckyeahmurraybookchin

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[tristamateer]

from “Post-Panic Attack” by Ashe Vernon.

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[hallelujahweddings]

[ortolana-deactivated20160716]

Being a woman is not a spiritual or metaphysical experience. It is not a feeling and it is not a performative utterance. Being a woman is a lived experience with material consequences.

Elizabeth Hungerford (via orphanspace)