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This swimsuit is the business.
oh shit
Hahahhaha I totally reblogged a talking-cat video here instead of on my personal blog last night.
WOOPS SRY.
i would just like to remind everyone that only about 1/3 of eating disordered people are underweight. you can die from an eating disorder even if you are at a normal weight or overweight. you deserve help and recovery no matter what you weigh.
“During the civili rights struggle, Birmingham canceled high school prom for many black teenagers. This weekend, the dance went on for the Class of 1963”
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/19/living/civil-rights-prom/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
The people who were teenagers during the Civil Rights Movement are still alive, y’all. Their lives were affected by blatant, government-sanctioned racism. It astounds me that people act like it was thousands of years ago.
yo i’m tearing up a little bit
This is beautiful. So beautiful.
This photoset makes me happy on many levels.
“Finally, the results of the Look Ahead study were published in 2012 with no fanfare because after all the years of treatment and support, the average weight loss was around 7 pounds. “Why? Why?” I ask myself, “Why does the scientific community refuse to admit this approach has failed?” There are a lot of reasons. The so-called obesity experts are still with us. Many of them are in their 80s and 90s, but they don’t dare retire and give up the influence they have on the public and the government. After all, if weight loss is not possible, then they have wasted their entire careers trying to achieve it. Then there is the aspect of “following the money.” What would happen to all of these obesity experts, diet programs, diet products, diet books, and diet gurus if we gave up trying to get people to lose weight?”- Joanne P. Ikeda, MA, RD, A Dietitian’s Road to HAESI thoroughly… thoroughly suggest reading the above quoted article in full.
Why It’s Okay To Be Fat: Golda Poretsky at TEDxMillRiver
Watch this. Up-vote it on Youtube. Share it. <3
This video has just been bombarded in the comments by a gaggle of anti-fat, healthist fuckers. Golda presents so much important info in this talk that is being overshadowed by hate and ignorance and its such a goddamn shame. If you have a moment, and the energy, to deal with combating these trolls…please consider helping out down-voting derogatory comments, up-voting constructive ones, and adding your own love to the mix.
Shelly, 18, NY
SO GORGEOUS!!!!!
why? how? its not fair that some folks are so stylish and im not.
^We will get there, exception.
In time.
White People Calling Kanye West Racist: A Collection
White people: willfully missing the point whenever Black people express their frustration with racism/white-supremacy and call white people out on their racist shit, and they (white people) claim to be the victims of an angry “racist” Black person…since for-fucking-ever. White tears and faux victimology.
[ three people with various leg types. left person is wearing pink shorts and yellow shoes and appears to have smooth legs with thighs that touch, middle person has pale, hairy, thin legs and is wearing heels with socks? and a purple pleated skirt,right person has on green boots, and a striped skirt and has thick thighs and scars.
texts “In Honour of Bare Legs ( if you want to have them )
It’s okay to have long legs, or short legs, or thighs that touch at the top, or hairy legs, or mottled skin, or knoggly knees, or cellulite, or scars, or stretch marks.
Don’t let the beauty standard give you more things to hate about yourself. Perfect is a social construct. Hot weather isn’t.”]
Haha, I love the last two sentences. - Sam