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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
My chronic hives are often triggered by weather and temperature, which is really inconvenient when it’s gorgeous outside. I didn’t realize I was in the sun long enough to trigger a flare-up, but here they are - itchy painful and making me feel weird about myself. So I combat the weirdness with a smile.
I found this nice tutorial/anatomy advice spread created by meghanhetrickof deviant art.
She gave me permission to post it up here to share so go make sure to visit her and look at her other creations of goodness!
I get what they’re doing here and I think it’s cool, but I mean it’s weird to be all “boobs come in all shapes and sizes!!” and then to shame people with implants whose boobs DO look more like all the “no” examples.
I do my best to draw diverse body types, and I very much support seeing more diversity in the way women are portrayed in art. But we can do that without shaming ladies whose bodies aren’t “natural”, because frankly they get enough shit anyway.
True. Reblogging again for corrections and commentary
Why It’s Okay To Be Fat: Golda Poretsky at TEDxMillRiver
Watch this. Up-vote it on Youtube. Share it. <3
I call this look “fat slut wanna be punk astronaut accountant from outer space with thighs the size of the moon”
Please reblog this if you love it to boost my ego.
Omg! This has so many notes n__n
Just a mega post of some of my favorite outfits this year
Photographer: Petra van Raaij
Model : Tina J
A study into whether physical activity alleviates the symptoms of depression has found there is no benefit.
Research published in the British Medical Journal suggests that adding a physical activity intervention to usual care did not reduce symptoms of depression more than usual care alone.
This contrasts with current clinical guidance which recommends exercise to help those suffering from the mental illness, which affects one in six adults in Britain at any one time.I thought this was true and all - fuck yeah, randomised controlled trials!
Chelsea Coreen - “Fart”
“But how @%^# up are our standards of beauty, or gender constructs… that we make little girls hold in their farts until no one is around to smell them”
“When I used to visit my grandmother in the hospital she would make me apply her red lipstick for her - she said she couldn’t be seen without it.”
Chelsea Coreen, of SUNY Oneonta, performing during Semi-FInals at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.