[singofsolace]

Whenever I’m feeling a little down, I watch this video. Marina Sirtis speaks beautifully on the subject of loving yourself even when society tells you not to. Her honesty and openness is breathtaking. 

[pranzadia]

All the captains in their glory.

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

May surak help us all

[movedtozixxie]

[fitnessmc]

[assignedmale]

A short guide for the inclusion of trans, intersex and gender non-conforming youth in the classroom

1. DON’T WAIT to have an openly trans, intersex or gender non-conforming student before adapting your teaching or behaviour!

Since school can be a very dangerous…

[readysteadytrek]

When I hear someone mention Star Trek

[angrykittykj-deactivated2016060]

[chronically-kyle]

Choose recovery

[jessicareinvented]

So true right now.

[ragtagandy]

Student created

[ragtagandy]

Science can't happen without bees - a lot of bees on sticks. America's youth will be well prepared. 

[sadneopet-deactivated20181229]

Transgender hate crime statistics presented in Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word. Watch here or here.

Additional sources:

U.S.A. transgender suicide statistics (see KEY FINDINGS, page 8) General United States suicide statistics (see “Nonfatal Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior,” page 1) LGBTQ and HIV-affected hate violence in 2012 (see “HATE VIOLENCE HOMICIDES,” page 7)

[tkyle]

same

[miriameleanorart]

Good things to list

[finebyyou-deactivated20120219]

Realize that anyone who tries to put you down about your appearance is assuming that it is your job to please them visually. Once you realize that it isn’t your job to be visually pleasing to anyone, ever, it becomes very hard for anyone to make you feel bad about yourself.

Skeptifem (via grrrlstudies)

AFUCKINGMEN.

(via naamahdarling)

[brutereason]

We never say that all men deserve to feel beautiful. We never say that each man is beautiful in his own way. We don’t have huge campaigns aimed at young boys trying to convince them that they’re attractive, probably because we very rarely correlate a man’s worth with his appearance. The problem is that a woman’s value in this world is still very much attached to her appearance, and telling her that she should or deserves to feel beautiful does more to promote that than negate it. Telling women that they “deserve” to feel pretty plays right in to the idea that prettiness should be important to them. And having books and movies aimed at young women where every female protagonist turns out to be beautiful (whereas many of the antagonists are described in much less flattering terms) reinforces the message that beauty has some kind of morality attached to it, and that all heroines are somehow pretty.

You Don’t Have To Be Pretty – On YA Fiction And Beauty As A Priority | The Belle Jar (via brutereason)

[nevver]

[cupidbeach]

[jenniferbarkley-deactivated2015]

Ask Amy

[bastien-fils]

The sleep one is important advice for manic depression.

[gothshavvty-deactivated20150228]

i love her so much

[honestlydear-blog]

fav lady

[meghantopus-blog]

Ugh, she’s really super great.

[hiddlesisanerd]

Amazing advice

[cristiebeast-blog]

gorl.