bonjour bonheur

Hi I'm Cindy - talk to me or something

[nevver]

Facades, Niv Rozenberg

[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)

[dielises]

01.14.2017 // I finally finished this side of my room!

As soon as I set up my record player on the other side I’m gonna show you more pictures but I feel so proud of the way my space has turned out (especially remembering what it looked like when I started lol it was a hot mess)!!!!

[solace-for-the-soul-less]

This is so beautiful

[amortizing]

When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let go. Surrender all attachments to people and things that you have been struggling to hold on to.

Iyanla Vanzant (via amortizing)

[radmoneyy]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Where we are right now, like the frustration with Canada, we are struggling,” said Levi, from Elsipogtog First Nation. “The First Nations are struggling. We’re pretty much living in Third World countries. ‘Our children here on the reserve, like a lot them, go to bed at night hungry and drink poor quality water, and some of them barely have a roof over their head.’ “It’s kind of insulting to me and … I imagine all the First Nations also "While we are struggling here and the government is spending millions of dollars on celebrating 150 years, think about the First Nations that are struggling and going without.

‘It’s … insulting,’ Mi'kmaq warrior chief says of Canada’s 150th celebration (via allthecanadianpolitics)

[moan-s]

[acompletelife]

[zptp]

[jeliyfish]

[prostituting]

[solace-for-the-soul-less]

my heart is very sad today. i hope you stay safe 

[youngbadmanbrown-deactivated201]

Don’t let anyone stop you from voting

[birdasaurus]

[mamachonnes]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

While Canadians who wear these costumes often do not have racist or harmful intentions, their actions contribute to a larger issue. We’re placed in the realm of cavemen, cave trolls and woodland fairies and that affects how society understands the real social, political and economic issues we face. Not only do these costumes paint all indigenous people with the same pioneer spaghetti-western-dipped, wagon painting brush, many objectify, victimize and romanticize indigenous women and girls as an “exotic Other.” While one may think they look supercute as an “Indian Princess,” or “Reservation Royalty” for a fun and harmless evening, they have the privilege to remove that costume at the end of the night. Indigenous women do not. We have to deal with ongoing marginalization and the lingering effects of colonization – like a culture that normalizes violence against indigenous women and girls.

Jessica Deer: Why your one day as a ‘sexy Indian maiden’ is dehumanizing (via allthecanadianpolitics)

[soldiers-of-war-deactivated2022]

SYRIA. Damascus governorate. Damascus. October 12, 2016. Civil defence members carry an injured man after an air strike in the rebel-held Douma neighbourhood. 

Photograph: Bassam Khabieh/Reuters

[simpsdj]

Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community.

Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS. Happy Birthday, NHS (5/7/48)