Putting your own wellbeing before others may feel selfish… but if you really WANT to help other people… you NEED to take care of yourself.

vampirequeenbrittany:

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hf748get9wihq:

if you have social anxiety and you made that phone call or put in that resume or told that person they’re funny or woke up today I am so proud of you and even if you didn’t do those things I am still proud of you okay

iridessence:

I’ll take your man, your girl, and your food.

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A ban on niqabs in France or mini-skirts in Uganda, or warped legislation on reproductive rights in the U.S. — all these efforts tell women that our bodies are not our own.

Sara Yasin, Palestinian-American blogger, on the distracting clash that is the hijab debate in the NYTimes
 (via alymeetsturkey)

adrain12:

snapdraws:

Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m lacking scanner access at the minute so I had to take these photos on my phone

I was reading hyperbole and a half’s blog entry explaining their experience of depression and decided to make another sketchy comic based on my experiences with anxiety, which is another mental illness I think people tend to misunderstand quite frequently

Hopefully this will be of use to some people - whether they suffer from anxiety themselves or if they just want to know more about it

#GPOY

Happy Birthday Naomi!

(Source: naomihitme)

(Source: heyveronica)

Rappers who publicly support gay marriage

ibetmittromney:

  • Kanye West
  • Jay-Z
  • Nicki Minaj
  • 50 Cent
  • Lil B
  • A$AP Rocky
  • Fat Joe
  • Queen Latifah

Please stop fucking acting like Macklemore is this special snowflake for being a rapper who supports gay marriage. I know yall love to pretend that black people are homophobes, so obviously the music we make must be homophobic, but that is bullshit and Wacklemore is not the first rapper to publicly support gay marriage.

fyqueerlatinxs: This is a very difficult question. We as a blog have decided to center queer Latinidad on the most marginalized among us (undocumented, trans*, women, black, indigenous, non-monosexual, non-binary, gender nonconforming, femme identified, and everyone at the intersections of all these axes of oppression.) That said, when addressing racism, we will always center the conversation on those who cannot (under no circumstance) ever be racialized as white. So are white Latin@s POC? Short answer: No. BUT Long answer: Sometimes. White, white-passing, and light-skinned Latin@s walk the world with the privilege to (under most circumstances) avoid anti-black and anti-indigenous racism. This does not mean, however, they do not experience discrimination based on their culture, language, surname, etc. Sin embargo, this is NOT racism — necessarily. In most cases, it’s xenophobia and anglocentrism that intersects with indirect racism. However, we are very hesitant to identity police. If you are a light-skinned/white/white passing Latin@, you can identify as a person of color. BUT — and this is IMPORTANTÍSIMO — you need to realize that you take up space in ways that black and indigenous Latin@s cannot. You can see yourself in Latin@ media with greater ease. You are considered more beautiful than your darker peers. You will be hired for a job before your indigenous/black Latin@ peers. This is the truth. Being a white Latin@ therefore gives you two options: contribute to marginalization of your herman@s who are not white, or use your privilege to challenge it. The choice is ultimately up to you.

fyqueerlatinxs:

This is a very difficult question.

We as a blog have decided to center queer Latinidad on the most marginalized among us (undocumented, trans*, women, black, indigenous, non-monosexual, non-binary, gender nonconforming, femme identified, and everyone at the intersections of all these axes of oppression.)

That said, when addressing racism, we will always center the conversation on those who cannot (under no circumstance) ever be racialized as white.

So are white Latin@s POC? Short answer: No. BUT Long answer: Sometimes.

White, white-passing, and light-skinned Latin@s walk the world with the privilege to (under most circumstances) avoid anti-black and anti-indigenous racism. This does not mean, however, they do not experience discrimination based on their culture, language, surname, etc.

Sin embargo, this is NOT racism — necessarily. In most cases, it’s xenophobia and anglocentrism that intersects with indirect racism.

However, we are very hesitant to identity police. If you are a light-skinned/white/white passing Latin@, you can identify as a person of color. BUT — and this is IMPORTANTÍSIMO — you need to realize that you take up space in ways that black and indigenous Latin@s cannot.

You can see yourself in Latin@ media with greater ease. You are considered more beautiful than your darker peers. You will be hired for a job before your indigenous/black Latin@ peers. This is the truth.

Being a white Latin@ therefore gives you two options: contribute to marginalization of your herman@s who are not white, or use your privilege to challenge it.

The choice is ultimately up to you.