let the sun shine

if you cant stand the way this place is, take yourself to higher places ૐ

[discolor3d]

[loveisthemostimportantthingever]

[stars-bean]

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

[seamlessoo]

Melted

[eliminated]

[tenderstems]

Josef Frank, now showing at the London Fashion and Textile Museum

[tastefullyoffensive]

[sounddesignerjeans-deactivated2]

Honestly I think one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself is to separate your negative qualities from your identity.

Instead of saying “I’m lazy,” saying “I’ve made a habit of not doing work unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Instead of saying “I’m a bad friend,” saying “I haven’t communicated as much as I should with the people I care about.”

By being specific about your problems, and by framing it as an action that you are consciously either working on or ignoring rather than an unchangeable part of who you are, you allow yourself to accept your mistakes and work constructively on them instead of pretending they didn’t happen or wallowing in blaming yourself.

[crybabycloudcake]

[lovelustquotes]

[heavenlymuse]

[fluffygif]

[inkflowergarden]

What if everything turns out for the best? What if it turns out way better than you could have ever imagined?

[lynati]

Cat Valente WENT OFF:

[07heart]

to love—platonically, romantically, unconditionally—is to live. remember this when you want to close your heart to others.

[citizenshipandsocialjustice]

[lesbianrey]

did you know that in 1953 eisenhower issued an executive order which banned gay people from being employed in government

[lesbianrey]

and it was specifically to root out lesbians who enjoyed the job security of government work

[lesbianrey]

“To protect their careers, lesbian government workers moderated their behavior to avoid suspicion. They refused to socialize with other lesbians in public, attended social functions with gay men as their ‘dates,’ and carefully chose their wardrobes and makeup to project a feminine persona. Male employees who resented reporting to a female boss could trigger an investigation into her sexuality.” - Robert J Corber “Cold War Femme”

[palominogold]

this era was called the lavender scare and was both a direct result of mccarthyism and the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness during ww2. over 10,000 lesbians and gay men lost their jobs and as a result the daughters of bilitis (the first ever lesbian activist group in the u.s.) formed in order to protect themselves and gay men

[sergeant-grumbles]

Important history

[fozmeadows]

and it’s John Kerry’s apology for these events that was removed from the State Department website days after Trump took office