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Excerpt from Florence Welch’s book Useless Magic out the 5th of July, 2018.

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There’s actually a lot of research showing that being raised WITHOUT a male parent (whether it’s lesbian mommas or a multigenerational household of women) is really good for kids. They statistically end up more confident, self-loving, and motivated to achieve goals that society tells them they can’t. Plus girls raised by women typically start having sex at an older age (researchers speculate that its because they are more likely to recognize and less likely to tolerate manipulation from men)

*twirling ballerina emoji that doesn’t exist*

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this is so cute lol

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If you play “Feeling Myself” by Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé at exactly 11:58:50 pm on New Year’s Eve, Beyoncé will say “World Stop” in 2017 and “Carry On” in 2018.

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The guy in Bring It On is actually a passing butch and the cheerleader character is a lesbian too and that’s the tea

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Raise your daughters to shout, to scream, to hold their heads up high for being themselves before society tries to teach them how to silence themselves, how to wear shame like it is a second skin. Let them taste rebellion from the moment they are born and watch them become flames to start a revolution.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

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the best thing you will see all year

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Drink water, eat if you’re hungry. Go outside for a minute, stand by a tree. Feel the sun on your skin. Remember all that the tree has endured. Remember you are strong. Remember you have a core; you have roots.

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It wasn’t necessarily easy for me to come out. But I couldn’t betray myself or lie about myself. I was on The View not long before I came out. Barbara said something like, “You’ve never been married. Have you just never found the right guy?” I said, “Now Barbara, you and I both know that’s not the reason.” And she just shut right up. Those kind of things happened a lot. From the 1970’s forward, I wouldn’t lie. I just couldn’t. - Lily Tomlin

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I’m perennially sickened by people who distort the relationship between AIDS and the fight for state-recognized partnerships (gay marriage/civil unions/etc.). It’s not that AIDS and the backlash made people get “”socially conservative”” or “”homonormative”” or whatever the buzzwords are; it’s that the AIDS crisis illustrated how vulnerable our communities are without protections for our relationships. You can argue all you want that we shouldn’t need legal protections to be safe, but please understand that terminally ill gay men were evicted from their apartments immediately after watching their partners die horribly because they couldn’t inherit the lease or the property (or couldn’t do so without paying heavy taxes). Gay men were unable to attend the funerals of their long-term partners because homophobic parents had custody of the remains.

This still happens, in states without gay marriage; a woman in Indiana was told that she was an “unrelated third party” when she tried to arrange her wife’s cremation. Reducing this real suffering to “you want marriage rights because you want to prove you’re just like straight people” is horrible, and I don’t know how that argument ever left someone’s typing hands without them realizing that they were absolute garbage.

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Anyways, this is the article Person Formally Known as Work Crush sent me. The recipes in here look A+, and I figure it would be of interest to many of us. 

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i put the series i’ve been working on onto my redbubble as prints! Roses | Greenery | Sunflowers

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$476,716 /1 br

NOLA

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