I was standing in line at dairy queen and I saw an elderly lady crying because she didn’t have enough money to pay for her small blizzard, so I bought her a large and helped her out to her car, and she cried and said ” I hope God made someone just for you out in the world so that they can treat you as special as you are” and I am sobbing right now.
(via toast--to-the-coast)
“We’ve been friends since we were 13.”
“What’s the most fun you’ve ever had together?”
“Oh, we don’t know…”
“Well, what’s the hardest you’ve ever laughed together?”
“Now you listen here! I want you to write down these questions you’re asking us, pull them out when you’re 85 years old, and see if you can answer them yourself!”
(via beware-of-the-dementor)
Many of you have probably heard of the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch’s controversial and flat out rude comments that the company doesn’t sell XL or XXL sizes for women because they want “cool” people to wear their clothes. Well, this blogger wrote an open letter to Jeffries and included these photos of herself and what is considered a “typical” male model body type.
Some quotes from her letter:
“The only thing you’ve done through your comments (about thin being beautiful and only offering XL and XXL in your stores for men) is reinforce the unoriginal concept that fat women are social failures, valueless, and undesirable.”
“This is largely attributed to companies like yours that perpetuate the thought that fat women are not beautiful. This is inaccurate, but if someone were to look through your infamous catalog, they wouldn’t believe me.”
“P.P.S. You should know your Large t-shirt comfortably fits a size 22. You might want to work on that.”
This has to do with fashion, though perhaps not in the way this blog has so far posted. But this sort of confidence is the sort of thing that we want our choices in clothes to reflect. You should be able to wear whatever you want and feel confident - no matter what other people may say or think.
(via stophatingyourbody)
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.
(via gtfothinspo)
Over the last decade, as companies chased after an effective chemical, there was fretting within the drug industry: what if, in trials, a medicine proved too effective? More than one adviser to the industry told me that companies worried about the prospect that their study results would be too strong, that the F.D.A. would reject an application out of concern that a chemical would lead to female excesses, crazed binges of infidelity, societal splintering.
“You want your effects to be good but not too good,” Andrew Goldstein, who is conducting the study in Washington, told me. “There was a lot of discussion about it by the experts in the room,” he said, recalling his involvement with the development of Flibanserin, “the need to show that you’re not turning women into nymphomaniacs.” He was still a bit stunned by the entrenched mores that lay within what he’d heard. “There’s a bias against — a fear of creating the sexually aggressive woman.”
phat ass | via Tumblr on @weheartit.com - http://whrt.it/109Salg
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You’ll never get invited to one of Justin Bieber’s house ragers, but if you do, don’t even think about live-tweeting it. The precocious singer will sue you to high heaven.
The 19-year-old is now making friends and acquaintances sign a waiver before entering his Calabasas, Calif., home. The waiver, obtained by TMZ, warns “under no circumstances will you divulge the details of you entering and being on the Property or engaging in the Activities by any means or through any media whatsoever, including without limitation, through photographs, video, blogging, texting, ‘Tweeting’ or posting any such information on any social media site.”
Among other concerns, guests are banned from bleating about the “physical health, or the philosophical, spiritual or other views or characteristics” of Bieber or anyone else associated with him.
The “activities” also cover what would appear to be bawdy parties. Just how rowdy do those shindigs get? Well, the waiver suggests activities carried out in the home are “potentially hazardous” and urges those who are not “medically able” or “properly trained” to avoid taking part.
It adds those activities carry “certain inherent risks that cannot be eliminated completely, ranging from minor injuries to catastrophic injuries, including death.” The waiver, of course, absolves Bieber and his associates of any liability.
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You’ll never get invited to one of Justin Bieber’s house ragers, but if you do, don’t even think about live-tweeting it. The precocious singer will sue you to high heaven.
The 19-year-old is now making friends and acquaintances sign a waiver before entering his Calabasas, Calif., home. The waiver, obtained by TMZ, warns “under no circumstances will you divulge the details of you entering and being on the Property or engaging in the Activities by any means or through any media whatsoever, including without limitation, through photographs, video, blogging, texting, ‘Tweeting’ or posting any such information on any social media site.”
Among other concerns, guests are banned from bleating about the “physical health, or the philosophical, spiritual or other views or characteristics” of Bieber or anyone else associated with him.
The “activities” also cover what would appear to be bawdy parties. Just how rowdy do those shindigs get? Well, the waiver suggests activities carried out in the home are “potentially hazardous” and urges those who are not “medically able” or “properly trained” to avoid taking part.
It adds those activities carry “certain inherent risks that cannot be eliminated completely, ranging from minor injuries to catastrophic injuries, including death.” The waiver, of course, absolves Bieber and his associates of any liability.
