#icontainmultitudes

[fiberistanora]

I bought this shirt in the lead up to Pride loving how it cleverly established “babes” as a non-gendered descriptor and challenged the gender binary. But every time I wear it, I also love the reminder to challenge binaries ~everywhere~. Binary thinking pits one thought against another and excludes the possibility of other options. It’s insidious and ubiquitous. Think about the idea of “good”. Binary thinking has us also immediately thinking about “bad” and assuming it’s the opposite. If something isn’t one, its the other. Binary thinking is inherently exclusionary (no muddled middle ground) and inevitably leads to hierarchies. Hierarchies lead to supremacy... see where I’m going with this? Today’s the Fourth of July and to say that I have mixed feelings about my country would be a hell of an understatement. So I’m wearing this shirt today to remind myself that it’s okay to have mixed feelings. I can hate and love my country at the same time. I can be ashamed of broad swathes of our history and be immensely proud of others. I can love the shit out of the USWN soccer team and fucking loathe our state sanctioned concentration camps. These things do not cancel each other out, they are not paradoxes: they are truths. I’m wearing this shirt today to remind myself that Activism isn’t a yes or no, a succeed or fail. It’s a question of scale and dedication and daily practice. All progress is progress. / / / Also I made these shorts this week. Fabric is Michael Miller cotton/linen and the pockets are IKEA fabric I bought circa 2009 with confused looking birds on it. Bonus points for the highlighter yellow zipper because why even make your own clothes if they can’t be ridiculous? 😘 #icontainmultitudes #sodoesmywardrobe #babesagainstthebinary #bonfireshirts #sewqueer #maritimeshorts #independencedayramble #memade #memadewardrobe https://www.instagram.com/p/BzgMq1PhD7G/?igshid=sbyvfk29dipb

[dudenukem]

2017 may be approaching its timely demise, but this guy has his eye fixed on the future. there's always room for more in the void! . . . #voidwatch #peepingeternity #weirdboyshit #tunnelvision #icontainmultitudes #icontainmultidudes #illustration #collageart #handcutpaper #darkarts #dorkart #darksurrealism #dorksurrealism #haircut

[applesandolives]

Now that I’m working again, my dinners might look a bit more like cold fried chicken and a vodka rocks. #icontainmultitudes (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLYMGeIBMQT/?igshid=1v04zf8s4oibd

[thereluctantbadger]

Parchment, characterisation and backstory

parchment: how often do you or your personal life influence your writing?: I'd say quite a bit, but not all the time. If I have experience in a particular area that comes up in a story then I'll definitely try to draw from it as much as I can. I'm sure I have enough interesting real life stories to fill a book, so I'm always looking for chances to use them!

characterization: describe your favorite character(s) you’ve written.: Definitely Toby and Nymeria at this point. Never thought my favorite OCs would be dogs! But I've had nothing but fun with fleshing out their individual personalities.

backstory: how did you come to love writing?: A big love of reading definitely came first. As a kid I read any book that was put in front of me. But then as I got older, hanging out with friends, we would discuss our "head canons" for shows and famous people we liked(before we even knew that fan fiction was a thing). One day it kinda clicked in my head "Hey! What's stopping me from putting all of our thoughts down as a story?" So I did.....and here we are...

Thanks so much!!

[out-of-the-cage]

“The past & present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. * Listener up there! what have you to confide to me? Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, & I stay only a minute longer.) * Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) * I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab. * Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper? Who wishes to walk with me? * Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?” - Walt Whitman: Song Of Myself, Part 51 #toomuch #IContainMultitudes #radicalselfacceptance * Shout out to Myilan at @salonyuriy for always knowing how to work those shears & renew my tresses. You are a #goddess #newhairs #blondtipsredlipssofthips #waltwhitman #songofmyself #songofmyselfie #teamplatinum #fillmynextfoldofmyfuture #iamlarge #iamlargeicontainmultitudes #imtoomuch #toomuchisjustenough #theperfectamountofself #allornothing #burn #shine #sunshine #noshame (at Salon Yuriy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz9POBjJGnr4skpsIMPtI3WvwxUksJNqbdFYIc0/?igshid=b86yl10llq1r

[thoughts2poems]

“”Do I contradict myself?” Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”

Walt Whitman

Every version of my self is mine. Whimsical bordered with sharp edges exists with creative curiosity and academic confidence. The same me that longs for the cliffsides and green hills longs for the flat expanse of earth and big sky.

[zorakatsdawta]

Corporate vibes today. Make it a good one. No matter what. #IContainMultitudes 🤓 (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn1SPFCBMxa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1x1l565p8n8fo

[miduhadi]

#icontainmultitudes #helenmacdonald #new #science #microbes #blackbluered #midureads (at Karachi, Pakistan)