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“I watch him in the kitchen, and I think of how much it hurts to love somebody. How deep the hurt is, how almost unbearable. It’s not the love that hurts; it’s the possibility of anything happening to the object of your love.”

— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking

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FKA Twigs wearing VALENTINO – Live Performance at the Fall/Winter 2020 show

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onceuponadreamjournals

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"Lucky" by me

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TOKYO, JAPAN

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Ying Oyang in Vivienne Westwood for Vogue China photographed by Zhong Lin

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my boyfriend is so hot. I’m not posting any pictures or anything tho bc I’m selfish.

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do you all remember in the early 2010s where people were talking about freeing the nipple and that mixed-gender sports should become a thing and the removal of period tax and all of that and then some people realised that would mean trans people too ans they instantly decided to revert to bioessentialism 101 and now i have to see grating sentences like Well maybe jeopardy should be gender-segregated because males have a biological advantage in pressing a button

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engraved carabiners

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“Ugliness is a pathway to intimacy. You can’t have intimacy without trust, and you can’t have trust without vulnerability. In order to be vulnerable, you have to reveal parts of yourself that are dismissed as capital-U Ugly. There’s also this piece around disability — the interdependence of disability is inescapable. I feel like access is not a burden, it’s an amazing opportunity to be generative, to deepen community, relationships, everything.

When I think about intimacy and its connections to beauty, I feel like it’s more connected to ugliness than beauty. I think the only way that we can build intimacy is through ugliness. For example, there is something very magnificent about how disabled people build access to intimacy — that kind of intimacy that comes with not being afraid to state your access needs. Not beauty, but the magnificence or the learned experiences that ugliness teaches you on how to survive. People see this as an extremist thing, but what I’m saying is that it’s been a way in my life to not let go of people, and to live in that interdependence that doesn’t always feel revolutionary and good. Sometimes it fucking sucks — sometimes you just want to be able to take a walk by yourself. Sometimes it sucks to have to depend on someone to help you take a walk by yourself.

There are times when it’s incredibly hard. I’ve learned and we have all learned so many different pieces of how to survive, how to be and thrive within our lived experiences. The alternative is to pretend it away, but I also think there is something with disability that doesn’t allow you to turn away. You could try to pretend it away even though your reality is not such. But there’s a concreteness to me about disability that doesn’t allow you to pretend it away.

Shitty things happen. Ugliness is all around us all the time. Sometimes shit is not beautiful and that’s okay, that’s actually more generative, there is a depth to that. If I was able-bodied and I didn’t fall all the time, I would never know that experience and that depth. There have been so many amazing strangers who have helped me pick up all of my things from the sidewalk, from the floor, helped me get some ice. All of these pieces of everyday life are so connected to those moments of intimacy. There’s something in that.”

Why Ugliness is Vital in the Age of Social Media - Mia Mingus

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sophiakelly

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the last days of judas iscariot, stephen adly guirgis

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30 Antifa Actions

For our 4th anniversary in June 2018, we posted a different anti-fascist action every day, partly in response to the flood of questions we get from people that want to take antifa action but aren’t sure just what to do.  Each one was something we reported on at some point over the last four years and most of them are actions that anyone could pull off anywhere, no matter their age or (dis)abilities.  Here’s the full, linked list for handy reference: #1: Show ‘Em Where You Stand #2: Table Shows #3: Take The Streets Away From Fascists #4: Know Your History #5: Go Where They Go #6: Love Football, Hate Fascism #7: Declare An Anti-Fascist Zone #8: Welcome Refugees #9: Write Your Bulgarian Ambassador #10: Cancel Their Plans #11: Get Them Fired #12: Go On Patrol #13: Start ‘Em Young #14: Keep The Fash Off The Beach #15: Ride With Them #16: Put On A Dance Party #17: Know Their Signs #18: 100 Nazi Twitter Scalps #19: Start Training #20: Show Some Solidarity #21: Movie Night! #22: Expose ‘Em #23: Stop Deportations #24: Write To Antifa Prisoners #25: Raise Money For Antifa Causes #26: Keep Your Town Nice & Clean #27: Banner Drop #28: Start An Anti-Racist Neighbourhood Watch #29: Work On Yourself #30: Read And Share

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i could crank hog to a rothko and i don’t even have carbon monoxide poisoning

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interesting how transmascs & transfems alike think losing weight is the answer to pass as our chosen gender.... almost as if fat people are never Truly afforded a passing gender regardless of trans status. as fat people we are never Truly seen as Men or Women. anyway fuck that notion & if u think u need to lose weight to pass that's the devil talking

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my boyfriend is so hot. I’m not posting any pictures or anything tho bc I’m selfish.