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“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.”

— Victoria Erickson (via luna—belle)

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777 followers, who is feeling lucky? 😊

Obligatory 10K shmoney shot. 🤑🤑🤑

Reblog for good fortune & follow for more! xx

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Thank you for sharing @safespacesdc. We support sex workers and those fighting for the decriminalization of sex work across the globe. #DecrimNow #decriminalizesexwork (en Bogotá, Colombia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrgLxRHnc_j/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ceq463l4mydz

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There’s a real suspicion of women that you see over the past century and longer, the sense that if women get to choose how they live their lives, they’re going to choose against marriage, childbearing, the family. They’re just going to live these selfish, decadent lives. And it’s really shocking to think about the implications of that. … So you have to control women in order to keep them enclosed within the domestic sphere.

R. Marie Griffith on how sex divided American politics  (via nprfreshair)

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If a kid that’s bi is watching TV and doesn’t really see anyone that identifies as bi or queer that is in a happy, functioning relationship, that has a good job, that lives past a 3-episode guest star arc — or maybe the bi character is hypersexualized or possibly a villain, [which] happens a lot — what does that mean for a 12, 13-year-old watching television and consuming media, and thinking, ‘Well who am I then? I guess I’m not this thing because I’m not a villain, I don’t want to be hypersexualized, I want what everybody wants, to live happy and well.

Stephanie Beatriz

(via johnnydora)

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Honestly it’s not that surprising people can’t accept bisexuals exist when people still think you can’t like both dogs and cats

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The Self-Care Masterpost of Masterposts ||

Physical self-care masterpost ||

(& head-to-toe self care) ||

Psychological self-care masterpost ||

Emotional self-care masterpost ||

Spiritual self-care masterpost ||

Personal self-care masterpost ||

Professional self-care masterpost ||

|| I apologize for this taking so long. <3 ||

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stop romanticizing unhealthy relationships.

stop thinking you can change someone. you can’t. they need to change for themselves.

stop romanticizing the idea of you two being together some day. if it isn’t happening now, let it go. 

no more pouring your heart out for someone who gives you little to no reciprocation. 

find someone who values your long letters and passionate attempts. this person will reciprocate, with twice as much fire.

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No one is allowed to speak over you if your feelings are hurt. Not even other survivors. If someone hurts you it is not your responsibility to make it okay. 

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I’m really tired of only seeing posts for trauma survivors who have managed to stay kind. not all of us can. not all of us can do that and still cope.

shoutout to my fellow trauma survivors who expect the worst, who are unfriendly, who have learned not to be vulnerable because people have used vulnerability to hurt you, who are quick to bare teeth, who are jaded and exhausted, who learned to compartmentalize and shut to things away and not feel, who are called bitter and disappoint people who expect us to be model survivors.

we are no less valuable or human than anyone else.

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Teaching the kitten to play fetch.

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 For more information, please visit www.whowillanswer.org. 

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Shout out to everyone who calls themselves a victim of abuse instead of (or in addition to) calling themselves a survivor.

Calling yourself a victim doesn’t make you weak.

Calling yourself a victim doesn’t take away any of your power.

Calling yourself a victim doesn’t mean you are accepting or okay with your abuse.

Calling yourself a victim says nothing about your strength, your willpower, or your value as a person.

If anyone tells you otherwise, screw them.