rip / off

*big time rush theme song starts playing*

[zegalba]

Karim Rashid: Nooch Express (2005)

[virginiewoolf]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[latterlig]

michael wolf, portraits, 2011

[kuchipachi]

When Anaïs Nin said “I don’t want worship. I want understanding,” and when George Orwell said “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood,” and when Marina Tsvetaeva said “In my early childhood, for as long as I can remember, I thought that I wanted to be loved. Now I know and tell everyone: I don’t need love, I need understanding.”

[soft-lovely]

moments in love

[metamorphesque]

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks

[text ID: My library is an archive of longings.]

[free-my-mindd]

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

peaceful..

[greelin]

painting “the trans experience” as inherently suffering is so. damaging and insidious like someone doesn’t have to be miserable at all times to be “trans enough” for anyone. y’all who want to act like you have a right to watch someone suffer and have their struggle be an open show that you can sit and watch and judge truly is some of the ugliest shit i’ve ever seen and it’s soooo unhealthy for young trans kids to hear “well if you ever feel comfortable with yourself/your body EVER you’re a dirty faker” like.. everyone is allowed to explore their gender and it doesn’t have to be a personal journey for YOU. that’s why it’s personal. you don’t get to measure and calculate someone else based on what you see. trans people are allowed to be happy, trans people are allowed to be loved, trans people are allowed to feel safe, trans people are allowed to feel comfortable, trans people are allowed to be in love with THEMSELVES and have a life and future and have every step of their journey supported. if that upsets you to read tough luck lmao continue being a bad person i guess!

[greelin]

tl;dr my transness is not a fucking spectacle for anyone else and neither is yours and you’re allowed to be okay and feel okay. you’re going to be okay

[junepours]

plenty of emotions.

[valtsv]

*on a date* so. um. i don't watch tv. seen anything weird in your dreams lately?

[oodlenoodleroodle]

I’m getting fed up with this whole “feminism as an identity” thing. Time for “feminism as an action.”

So instead of asking “can a feminist do x?” ask “is doing x a feminist action!”

Can a feminist take her husband’s last name? Mu. Null. Question un-valid, please un-ask question.

Is taking your husband’s last name a feminist action? No it isn’t. It doesn’t challenge the patriarchy in anyway, it is the status quo thing to do, it is what is expected of women, and it carries a lot of historical baggage about ownership and shit like that.

But that’s okay, your life choices don’t have to be 100% dictated by your politics unless you want them to. And it’s okay to really want to take his name while recognizing that you also want to do the feminist thing and keep your own, and it’s okay to feel conflicted and have a hard time making the choice. But no more of this enabling “as long as I made the choice myself it is a feminist choice” -bullshit. Own your choices, even the ones that aren’t informed by your feminist politics. You are still a human being and people do shit that contradicts their politics and even interests all the time. Just stop pretending that everything you do is feminist because you are a feminist, that’s not how it works.

[hauntedpamplemousse]

^^this is why bell hooks challenges us to say “i support feminist movement” or “i support feminist action” rather than “i am a feminist.” she says that once we say “i am a feminist” and make “feminist” an identity rather than a political movement or a set of beliefs and the actions resulting from those beliefs, we can become complacent and think the battle is over. 

[ch0keherwithaseaview]

You need sleep

Based on your messed up sleep schedule

[jeou]

Vogue Taiwan, January 2022, which showcases the “polluted popsicle” art project of a team of Taiwanese art students who turned 100 dirty H20 samples into polyester resin popsicles to showcase the long-term effects of pollution in the environment. (x)

[quotespile]

“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

[neshamama]

mari eastman, "untitled (consequences)," colored pencil on paper

[brwngalmimi]

i have an individuality complex, imitation is not flattery to me.