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Strongly agree

one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

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He didn't want my love but I still have it with me. What do feelings want? To be heard? To be validated? To have space? To be expressed?

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You owe it to yourself to see how great it can get.

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“It is easy to tell when my desires are not meant for me. They push against my grasp, bite my palms, wrestle my hands until I can no longer hold on to what is meant for someone else. I now know not to capture them, rather to set them free.”

— Noor Shirazie, Not meant for me.

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gotta say i don't like how many "how to pass ftm" guides are straight up just like. be monotone and uninterested and don't engage in your "feminine" hobbies and don't wear bright colors and don't be polite and don't smile at people and don't show emotion ever. like how precisely is this a healthy thing to be teaching people (especially the young people these are often targeted at)??? i am a bubbly boy. a cheerful chap. a merry man. a good-humored guy. a glowing gent. a veritable ray of fucking sunshine and i am NOT toning that down!!!! fuck you!!!!!!!

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excerpt from the last poem ‘I grant you refuge’ by Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada before she was martyred by an israeli air strike on the twentieth of october, translated by Huda Fakhreddine

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sorry my family didn’t teach me that i have a place among others so now i’m weird . sorry

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The pursuit of self expression does not feel liberating, which is counterintuitive I would say. but then I thought...

Self expression would not feel liberating to someone who was taught that expressing yourself means that you're asking for conflict. Expressing yourself means asserting your difference, and also celebrating it in a way that requires attention. it puts you on a higher position than everybody else, and in a society where everyone feels fundamentally oppressed, they would fight back anyone who enjoys being who they are as if he/she is not suffering like all of us.

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Overthinkers need partners who naturally express their love through reassurance.

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— Mary Oliver, "Why I Wake Early"

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staying over at your parents is like. wow I’ve spent some of the worst times of my life here feeling trapped and alone. I’m so glad I don’t live here anymore. I’m so sad I’ll never live in the same house as my siblings ever again. I miss being a child. I miss living with my family. or maybe I miss the concept of a happy family. the idea of something I never truly had. I’ve cried in this bed so many times. things have changed so much. I feel the ghosts of my younger selves in this room still. it’s good to be home.

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GTA VIBES ..

Cairo, Egypt

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‏"واليوم أخطو برفق أكثر، بعد أن ركضت لوقت طويل، خوفًا من أن يفوتني شيء، وفاتني كل شيء."

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Alice Walker, from “Even As I Hold You”, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990

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Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'