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(Madaline)

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Truly. We don't.

WE DONT DESERVE DUSTLAND FAIRY TALE

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this blog hates donald trump

Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁

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what do you call a boner at a funeral

mourning wood

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Bisexual people see twice as many attractive people in their lives but have a much higher chance to be rejected

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this blog hates donald trump

Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁

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military worship in this country is out of fucking control

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on the left u have a golden goddess doing her part to keep the daylight bright

and on the right. some fucking. loser straight fucking T-posing on some hill.

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what do you call a startled train

freightened

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Stop dating abusive women 2018

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Reblogging for you my dear

Hello everybody!

That’s me and I need a breast reduction. I wear a bra size 32F, something not commonly found anyplace you can pick a bra up for less than $70. My breasts weigh me down, they are tender and painful at all times, and they give me extreme back, neck, and shoulder pain. Add all of this to the dysphoria I feel as a butch nb lesbian, and you can see why I desperately need a breast reduction.

Unfortunately, my insurance will not provide any kind of pre-approval, even to tell me for sure that they would not cover this procedure. My surgeon feels that, going by the stated guidelines for my insurance regarding these procedures, they would be very unlikely to cover the costs, and I would only find out either way after billing insurance for my surgery after the fact. If they did not accept my claim - which they likely would not - I could be left with a bill of around $50,000 in medical fees. Obviously, I can’t afford this. However, if I bill my procedure as cosmetic and pay for it myself, it would only cost $8,165.

Regardless, I don’t have the money either way. I just got hit with a huge vehicle repair bill recently which drained me of $3,000. Given another few years, I could probably get that money back and even pay for my procedure, but that would destroy my life savings ever since graduating high school in 2013. As much as I feel I need this surgery, not only to ease my physical symptoms but to calm my dysphoria, I can’t justify that extreme depletion of my savings for both school and my future in general.

I’m hoping to reach my goal this summer, by the end of August. I don’t honestly know if that’s possible, but I hate the thought of entering a new year of life as a 24 year old, stuck with the same painful chest. I can’t run, clothes that fit properly are hard to find, and every time I glance in the mirror I’m reminded of the literal burden I carry. I really can’t overstate how dysphoric my chest makes me. I can’t even wear a binder because of the disproportionate nature of my chest. I’ve tried everything I could think of to minimize my chest, from making binders myself from old shirts to trying transtape (which would probably work for someone with a more proportional chest, but again, I’m cursed so it doesn’t work for me) to just layering as much as possible. None of these are viable long term solutions, nor do they do anything to address the physical pain I endure. Please consider donating, or at least sharing with your friends! Also, forgive the deadname and vague generalizations at the link - I’m not out in every context and I want to spread this as far as I possibly can. For everyone who donates, any size donation is helpful and I appreciate you all! For everyone who shares, thank you so much for bringing visibility to my fundraiser!

https://paypal.me/pools/c/84m0lS0um3

Thank you again, everyone. I really appreciate everything and anything you can do! I love you!

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Stop reducing native issues to “they had their land taken”.

Our sisters are still murdered and missing. Our children go hungry and cold. Our elders can’t afford health care. Our parents suffer from untreated mental illness and have addictions because they self medicate.

And thats not even on the reservations. Thats just in farming communities of the Lumbee. And we are doing well by comparison to other groups.

Stop reducing us to stolen land and erasing our real struggles.

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my Eid spirit first and foremost goes to all other LGBT Muslims who suffer during Eid: those who feel like they can’t be Muslims and LGBT both; those whose loved ones has used Islam to disown, become violent, or not support them, when Islam preaches acceptance and love; to those who can’t be proud of being an LGBT Muslim due to Islamophobia.

Eid Saeed to all of you, Eid Mubarak, and happy Eid. there’s a Muslim LGBT community waiting for you to embrace Islam and your gender and/or sexuality both, at any capacity that you were meant to.

Allah loves you! as do I!

if you’re not a Muslim, you can reblog, to spread the love, but please refrain from commenting

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BF 2004/2018

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Someone: What are you thinking about?

Me: 

Me: Nothing :)

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Euripides, from “Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

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A new documentary about Ursula K Le Guin shows the late author reflecting on the impact of feminism on her work, revealing that she had been “a woman pretending to think like a man” and that her much-loved Earthsea books “are a total complete bust” as feminist literature.

Le Guin’s first three books about Earthsea centre on the male wizard Ged, with women “either marginal or essentially dependent on men”, according to the author herself. In director Arwen Curry’s forthcoming Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin, which Curry worked on with Le Guin for 10 years, the novelist speaks of how when she started writing, “men were at the centre” of fantasy and admits that “from my own cultural upbringing, I couldn’t go down deep and come up with a woman wizard”.

The third book in the series, The Farthest Shore, was published in 1972. When Le Guin came to write the fourth, which centres on the female character, Tenar, she found it “just wouldn’t go”. It took her another 17 years to work out how to tell Tenar’s story, with the 1990 novel Tehanu.

“What I’d been doing as a writer was being a woman pretending to think like a man … I had to rethink my entire approach to writing fiction … it was important to think about privilege and power and domination, in terms of gender, which was something science fiction and fantasy had not done,” Le Guin tells Curry. “All I changed is the point of view. All of a sudden we are seeing Earthsea … from the point of view of the powerless.”

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