Swan Davies. @swandavies - Tumblr Blog

Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just … start.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo (via llleighsmith)

#abbey lee kershaw #black and white #nose ring #red lips #blonde bombshell

ambivalentlyyours

I’m not one thing.

swandavies

SO yes.

forloveanlemons

For Love and Lemons Festival Collection

observando

My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, “Look at me…I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you…you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.” And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, “Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.” So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.

Tom Waits (via observando)

isabellamanfredi

I don’t think people understand what feminism actually is. How could they when saying ‘I am a Feminist’ is somehow news-worthy? . Feminism is one of the basic movements for human liberty. I’d like to get past the ‘Are you a feminist’ question and ask what’s next, how can workplaces adapt to and accommodate female skills? Why is it still less cool to like clothes over sport, Destiny’s Child over The Sex Pistols? How are we holding ourselves back? There are still real problems we face in the developed world: The pervasion of death at the hands of a partner; The fine line female artists walk between fandom and threats of sexual violence, the social stigma and shame surrounding abortion. If women see as I did, that the only way to be cool or equal is to act like a guy or make music like a guy, then does doing that really make us equal? As far as I can see, equality does not mean sameness. But to be yourself against odds takes a certain kind of confidence. In terms of the music, I hope I can stop trying to please the guys in my band or society and write about how I really feel - I think that’s about as political as any women can get - saying what she thinks.

swandavies

Yes. So yes.

#isabellamanfredi feminist feminism music

broofriends

There’s nothing that’s gonna turn girls away from themselves at age 12. I think that it’s really important that I speak about things in interviews that I’m passionate about. I have brought feminism up in every single interview I’ve done because I think it’s important that a girl who’s 12 years old understands what that means and knows what it is to label yourself a feminist, knows what it is to be a woman in today’s society, in the workplace or in the media or perception. What you should accept from men, what you shouldn’t, and how to form your own opinion on that. I think the best thing I can do for them is continue to write songs that do make them think about themselves and analyze how they feel about something and then simplify how they feel. Because, at that age — really at any age, but mostly that age — what can be so overwhelming is that you’re feeling so many things at the same time that it’s hard to actually understand what those emotions are, so it can turn to anxiety very quickly.We are dealing with a huge self-esteem crisis. These girls are able to scroll pictures of the highlight reels of other people’s lives, and they’re stuck with the behind-the-scenes of their own lives. They wake up and they look at their reflection in the mirror, and they compare it to some filtered, beautiful photo of some girl who’s really popular and seems like she has it all together. This is not what you and I had to deal with when we were 12. It’s so easy and readily available to compare yourself to others and to feel like you lose.I’m 24. I still don’t feel like it’s a priority for me to be cool, edgy, or sexy. When girls feel like they don’t fit into those three themes, which are so obnoxiously thrust upon them through the media, I think the best thing I can do for those girls is let them know that this is what my life looks like. I love my life. I’ve never ever felt edgy, cool, or sexy. Not one time. And that it’s not important for them to be those things. It’s important for them to be imaginative, intelligent, hardworking, strong, smart, quick-witted, charming. All these things that I think have gone to the bottom of the list of priorities. I think that there are bigger themes I can be explaining to them, and I think I’m trying as hard as I possibly can to do that.

'Anything That Connects': A Conversation With Taylor Swift (via albinwonderland)

So proud to know this person. What a perfect interview. Make sure to click the link and read the whole thing.

(via yelyahwilliams)

My heart in words.

officialrocnation

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swandavies

I wishhhh

twloha

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

swandavies

(via twloha)

#yes

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spankingmackenzie

I needed to see this gifset today..

tobiasxva-deactivated20170810

fucking amen

tttarek

Damn.

misswallflower

swandavies

So beautiful.

tovelotovelo

So the other morning I was sitting in my kitchen, drinking my coffee and listening to swedish morning radio. All of a sudden, Talking Body comes on! I get overly excited of course. Once the song’s done playing (and I’m done dancing infront of the mirror MIMING TO MYSELF wtf?!) the radio hosts...

swandavies

Love this woman.