My thoughts on style, fashion, beauty, body acceptance other things.
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Giveaway - Summer Reading
The beach is a awesome (but often difficult) place to enjoy body positivity. Hot and Heavy, feature essays by “Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion. I just ordered a copy for myself and an extra to give away to my followers. For me, it doesn’t hurt to have a little inspiration as I enter those months meant for bathing suits, shorts and tank tops. Also included in the giveaway, a cute pair of shades from Old Navy.
Details:
- I will ship for free within the United States only
- Winner chosen via Random.org
- Giveaway will run through June 1st
Rules:
- Must be following to enter.
- One entry for each reblog.
- You may reblog up to ten times (ten entries)
- Must have ask box open for me to contact you if you win.
- You must reply within 5 days with a shipping address.
- Must be 18 or over or have parent’s permission to enter.
Good luck.
Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'?
“So I shouldn’t be surprised that the Mother’s Day Parade shooting has largely been forgotten. On Sunday, shots were fired into a crowd during a parade in the New Orleans 7th ward. Police said they saw three suspects running from the scene.
This is the largest mass shooting in the United States where the shooters were still at large after the crime was committed. Think about that for a minute. From Columbine to Virginia Tech to Fort Hill to Aurora, all the shooters were either killed or apprehended on site. But the person or people responsible for shooting 19 Americans are still free.”
One of the people who got shot was an antiviolence blogger. Somehow we aren’t seeing massive solidarity for New Orleans or the entire city going on police lockdown to find the perpetrators. Two reasons: 1) This mostly affected Black people, and we all know how much the media and the police give any fucks about Black people in New Orleans; 2) This was a gun crime, so we can’t criticize it because GUNS ARE FREEDOM!
(Source: daughterofalkebulan)
(Source: trenzallore)
‘The Great Gatsby’ Still Gets Flappers Wrong
In her June 1922 piece for Metropolitan Magazinecalled “Eulogy on the Flapper,” 22-year-old Zelda only hints at the radical edge of the flapper movement.
“The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair ofearringsand a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure, she covered her face with powder and paint because she didn’t need it and she refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart. She had mostly masculine friends, but youth does not need friends—it needs only crowds.”
But in 1925’s “The Great Gatsby,” Scott depicted a more dire view of flappers. Narrated by a man, thecautionary tale seems to warn against the wiles of The New Woman—the feminist ideal of an educated and sexually liberated woman that emerged in the 1900s. So instead of intelligent, independent women telling their own stories of rebelling and rejecting their mother’s values, you have male war buddies sharing how vapid, spoiled socialites carelessly wrecked their lives. In “A Feminist Reading of the Great Gatsby,” Soheila Pirhadi Tavandashti points out the pattern:
“The novel abounds in minor female characters whose dress and activities identify them as incarnations of the New Woman, and they are portrayed as clones of a single, negative character type: shallow, exhibitionist, revolting, and deceitful. For example, at Gatsby’s parties we see insincere, ‘enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names,’ as well as numerous narcissistic attention-seekers in various stages of drunken hysteria. We meet, for example, a young woman who ‘dumps’ down a cocktail ‘for courage’ and ‘dances out alone on the canvass to perform’; ‘a rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter’; … a drunken young girl who has her ‘head stuck in the pool’ to stop her from screaming; and two drunken young wives who refuse to leave the party until their husbands, tired of the women’s verbal abuse, ‘lifted [them] kicking into the night.’”
An excellent discussion about how Fitzgerald, and in turn the movie, treated women in the Great Gatsby.
Game of Thrones Night with Noah, Molly, & Justin SQUEEEE!!!
(Source: kushandwizdom)
Picture of me in my wheelchair on an ice rink with the words “still not a fucking vegetable” above my head.
I originally made a more complicated one but then I saved it incorrectly and then when I started over again I realized I could boil it down to ‘I’m not a fucking vegetable’. Before anyone flips out on me about how it’s “just a joke” let me say, I know you think it’s just a joke.
But this joke? It’s rooted in the idea that disabled people are incapable of absolutely anything. The idea is that we aren’t anything more than a squash or a zucchini. That we can’t think for ourselves, that we can’t have opinions or we can’t go places or enjoy life.
It’s disgusting and wrong. It creates controversy where there should be none. For an instance, this picture was taken at an ice rink where I was told I should leave because people didn’t think I was capable of moving and stopping my wheelchair on my own. Sure, I can’t walk on my own. But I can move with help from my beloved Tara. (Yes, I named my wheelchair)
This “joke” sets forth the idea that disabled people are better off dead. We’re not worth saving. We’re not worth alive. We’re just a burden on society. And that’s a bunch of bullshit.
It’s not just a joke. It’s offensive, derogatory, discriminatory, ableist shit. And as human beings, we deserve better.
So much love for this.
The women’s magazine we really need vs. the one we get.
I’d buy the one on the left in a shot.
A MacBook Pro and a Teddy Bear and Finn the Human is my only friend. I guess we’ll make it through together
Tic tacs, a packet of ginseng slices and Elementary Sherlock. With that last part, I’m sure we’ll do fine
Pencil case, a pair of scissors, and Archer.
Utterly boned. I think I’d just ask Archer to shoot me.
I have a cup of tea, a pair of tights and Blackadder from the WWI series. I don’t think I’m getting very far.
A mug, an iPhone and - wait for it - Leslie Knope. I’m going to be just fine.
crisps, a duvet, and sam & dean winchester. it wasn’t looking promising, but i reckon i’ll be just fine.
A cell phone and a pair of shorts are my weapons. However, my surviving friend is The Doctor, so I’m pretty sure I’ll be fine.
(Source: disaster-incarnate)
Giveaway - Summer Reading
The beach is a awesome (but often difficult) place to enjoy body positivity. Hot and Heavy, feature essays by “Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion. I just ordered a copy for myself and an extra to give away to my followers. For me, it doesn’t hurt to have a little inspiration as I enter those months meant for bathing suits, shorts and tank tops. Also included in the giveaway, a cute pair of shades from Old Navy.
Details:
- I will ship for free within the United States only
- Winner chosen via Random.org
- Giveaway will run through June 1st
Rules:
- Must be following to enter.
- One entry for each reblog.
- You may reblog up to ten times (ten entries)
- Must have ask box open for me to contact you if you win.
- You must reply within 5 days with a shipping address.
- Must be 18 or over or have parent’s permission to enter.
Good luck.
