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"and we laughed until we cried. we laughed because the world is absurd and beautiful and small."
"I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short,
with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love,
and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes,
my noseholes—everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe.
I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!"
with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love,
and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes,
my noseholes—everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe.
I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!"
Audre Lorde (via nezua)
(Source: octogatita, via tranqualizer)
"11. Don’t get confused, though: Unless you are actually poor, you are not actually poor.
I know I said “poor” in item #10, but I was being lazy. I’m sorry. What I really meant was “broke.” Don’t get some chip on your shoulder about how disenfranchised you are because all you have is a liberal arts degree and 100 Top Ramens. It will make you sound silly and careless. Some people have been systemically disadvantaged their entire lives and now they live in their cars and don’t even have Bottom Ramen. Here’s an easy way to tell the difference: If you got arrested, do you have someone that could bail you out of jail? If the answer is yes, then you are broke and not poor. “Poor” is not a game. You are “broke."
I know I said “poor” in item #10, but I was being lazy. I’m sorry. What I really meant was “broke.” Don’t get some chip on your shoulder about how disenfranchised you are because all you have is a liberal arts degree and 100 Top Ramens. It will make you sound silly and careless. Some people have been systemically disadvantaged their entire lives and now they live in their cars and don’t even have Bottom Ramen. Here’s an easy way to tell the difference: If you got arrested, do you have someone that could bail you out of jail? If the answer is yes, then you are broke and not poor. “Poor” is not a game. You are “broke."
List of non-ableist words
I want to compile a list of words folks can use instead of ableist slang, I grabbed a few from this page to start this off, please add to the list as this circulates. And reblog!
- flimsy
- inadequate
- insufficient
- unconvincing
- unsatisfactory
- undesireable
- inept
- pathetic
- deficient
- hollow
- meager
- perfunctory
- absurd
- ridiculous
- lousy
- fucked up
- rubbish
- irrational
- cruddy
- frustrating
- aggravating
- troublesome
- tiresome
- overwhelming
- obnoxious
- abhorrent
- gross
- shitty
- icky
- uncalled for
"Our culture expects women’s – and men’s – bodies to be a certain way. People are very invested in the idea that Men Look Like This and Women Look Like That and Never the Twain Shall Meet. Well, guess what? Nature doesn’t give a fuck about your sexual binary. Nature puts us together in a million different ways – actually, about seven billion, give or take a few hundred thousand – and a lot of us are going to walk that imaginary line. There are going to be short, hairless men with high voices and tall women with deep voices and people who are intersexed in a bunch of different ways, and here’s the great thing – it’s all okay. Every single one of us. There’s not a thing wrong with any of us."
QUEER ODOR ▽*: So when is the Black Community (TM) going to get an analysis from LGBT pundits about its racism? →
I’m dead serious.
We’ve been seeing all these fucked up reports about how “The Black Community” has always been against LGBT rights because most of Black people are religious, and religion said so, and thus we are the reason why LGBT legislation hasn’t been passing.
Where’s…
A particularly vibrant adult Western Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon vehiculum), yellow-striped morph, discovered beneath woody debris, Coos County, OR, USA
(photo: Squamatologist)
"Here‘s the thing about rights—they‘re not actually supposed to be voted on. That‘s why they‘re called rights."
