Reading Not Sleeping

23 years old // she/her // student // USA // vegetarian // feminist // getting to grips with being unapologetically myself

[fandomsandfeminism]

Amazingly, poor people know what they need the most, and the answer isnt the same for everyone. Giving cash directly is simple, effective, and respectful.

[closet-keys]

Can I just say that the response of Kevin Cypher is literally a cookie-cutter of what (explicit) slave owners and slavery apologists used to say?? 

The idea that people taken away from their families and imprisoned and forced into labor sometimes experience moments of relief when they aren’t being actively punished does not mean they “love” or are “happy” performing countless hours of unpaid fucking labor. 

The “happy slave” trope was absolutely disgusting pre-Juneteenth and it’s absolutely disgusting now. 

how can you type “they’re happier to be working than sitting in a cage all day” and not realize how fucking evil you sound??? 

[fandomsandfeminism]

All of this.

Plus, a reminder, that when these people are released from prison they LEGALLY CANT WORK AS FIREFIGHTERS because they have a criminal record. You cant even argue that its like…training and job experience.

Its evil. Its slavery.

[justlookatthosesausages]

This movie already is the most hilarious animated crossover ever made in history omg

[folly-of-alexandria]

@thebibliosphere

[fandomsandfeminism]

Merida is great, but Im cackling at Aurora nodding off there and looking SUPER miffed when she is startled awake.

[yayfeminism]

Why does being a woman put you at greater risk of having anxiety? Part biology, part what we teach our kids about their place in the world.

[redshiftsinger]

So we’re teaching girls to be anxious wrecks and boys to disregard the possibility of consequences for incautious behavior.  This explains a lot of things. Like… why women are anxious wrecks and men are frequently surprised when it turns out their actions do in fact have consequences. And why men don’t bother asking for help even when they really need it, and thus more frequently die from treatable health conditions (including depression), while women end up getting a broad stereotype of being hypochondriacs (and then having a hard time getting treatment for legitimate health concerns).

[cr0wsb4br0s]

https://www.ted.com/talks/caroline_paul_to_raise_brave_girls_encourage_adventure/transcript

[psy-faerie]

Yooooi

[dumbbigtittedslut-deactivated20]

Reblog if you're into outer space and rough sex

[thelatestkate]

I’ve touched on this theme many times in previous illustrations, but anxiety is such a difficult, ever-morphing problem that I have found this argument to be continually relevant.   °˖✧*•  Shop, Patreon *•. ✧˖°`

[fandomsandfeminism]

Studies show that direct help, giving poor people money with no strings attached, giving homes to homeless people, etc, is an effective AND cost effective way of helping people compared to more traditional charities and government assistance programs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/04/17/the-surprisingly-simple-way-utah-solved-chronic-homelessness-and-saved-millions/

https://www.businessinsider.com/kenya-village-disproving-biggest-myth-about-basic-income-2017-12

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/welfare-reform-direct-cash-poor/407236/

Bootlickers: but how is that profitable? Sounds like it would make the money be sad.

[thatsthat24]

The Dating Game 📆

[khadij-al-kubra]

Accurate

[i-want-spankings-deactivated201]

[i-want-spankings-deactivated201]

This is possibly the coolest video I’ve ever taken.

[mygirlsaremollymarylucy]

wow I love this!!

[pissed-wav]

This is so good for my anxiety

[uniofadifferentcolor]

I’ve reblogged this so many times

[pockettprince]

so a witch curses a princess that wronged her but…

aqua © @parfaitperi

[bigspender]

@ the ladies

wouldn’t it be cool if we could like… be ugly… but then…. not be considered subhuman for it

[feminismandhappiness]

I have written in long detail about my issues with “everyone is beautiful” and this text post summarizes it in 18 words

[karrakazz]

possibly controversial opinion: i think “natural” makeup is, over time, more damaging than bold, obvious makeup

[solacekames]

I don’t think that’s controversial at all. 

[solacekames]

@qualr sure I’ll explain :-)

Mainly because makeup itself, the generic concept, is an integral part of human identity. People have always done it (even Neanderthals used makeup) and we’re always going to keep doing it. The concept of decorating our faces/bodies with colored pigments is practically hardwired and on a deep level just plain FUN (look at how much kids love to get their faces painted at fairs and carnivals and so on). The concept is also totally gender neutral. In some societies, men traditionally do it more than women, for example. Using your own body as a canvas for art taps into a mystical, childlike sense of wonder. First you look one way, then… another! Like magic. 

But mainstream commercial makeup culture as it exists today is incredibly exploitative, misogynist, colonialist, colorist, and hurts women, especially poorer women and women who don’t fit the racial ideal as expressed by the mainstream corporate beauty industry. And a big part of that is pushing “natural” looks. All women are supposed to look “naturally” poreless, for example (which isn’t realistic or healthy) and are punished socially and often financially if we aren’t. Another example: contouring is supposed to accentuate the “natural” lines of your face but for me and a lot of other Asian women with moonfaces, it’s the furthest thing from natural! The further you are from the rich thin young lightskinned bigeyed straightsmallnosed highcheekboned look, the more weirdly artificial the word “natural” becomes. We’re supposed to sink all this time and money and resources into achieving this bullshit “natural” look until it all feels a bit like Sisyphus rolling the stone up the hill. 

Putting a bright blue streak on your eyelids and walking out the door might take five seconds and probably makes you feel expressive and happy and good about yourself, even if it seems “tacky” through the lens of mainstream makeup culture. But taking an hour and trying soooo hard, using all the latest expensive products to make it seem like you’re not really trying at all, makes a lot of women feel worse about themselves, not better. In fact it leads to a lot of women feeling insecure about their real face and their real skin. There are many ways to look garish, but only ONE way to look “natural”. Instead of turning your own face into a canvas where you’re the creative artist, you’re following a ruthless set of instructions and doing a sort of strict paint-by-numbers that you’re never going to do right anyway. So it represents giving up more power over your own face/body than you’re actually getting back. Subjugation to the social norm, not creativity.

[lovenotlogic]

me: (doesn’t directly tell anyone that i am struggling)

me: kinda interesting how nobody is ever there when i need them ://

[not-safe-for-democracy]

[thepurelands-deactivated2021031]

I don’t know who this bloke is, but I definitely think we should all start saying “thriving wage” until it becomes a thing

[funeral-keeps-us-apart-deactiva]

[dolliecrave]

Pass this on Tumblr

[drakewinzz]

This is actually pretty important

[addictivepers0nality]

very important information

[jazminbunninsfw]

This needs to be seen more. Rape needs to flat out stop, but until then victims need to know there’s support for them.

[xmuvatokyo]

I should’ve done this . Nobody told me this was an option . Fuck …

[epicmurdock]

I really hate it when parents of autistic kids use phrases like “I know they’re in there.” Bitch they’re right in front of you! You haven’t lost them! They’re not locked away like a final boss in a video game!! This is your child As Is! Love them for who they are not what you wish they would be! Fuck!

[epicmurdock]

I didn’t expect this to get notes but it’s absolutely ok to reblog and I’m glad it has been

[versacetbh-blog]

i literally dont talk to anyone unless they talk to me first

[viewtiful-kim-deactivated202105]

NPC Energy

[rah-bizzle]

Recently I was in a public place, chatting quietly with my friends, and this unattended child came out of nowhere and asked me to clarify one of the things I’d said. So I explained myself to this kid, and as soon as he got an answer, he turned around without saying anything and continued on his way. It really felt like he’d just walked up to me and pressed A.