INTRODUCTIONS! Ah, I'm so nervous!!! Um...Hi, I like things that make me happy, and I do not like things that make me sad. LOVES: -Dancing -Reading -Singing -Musicals -Movies -History -Television -Queer Culture -Miscellaneous I am a serial re-blogger.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
EVERYONE GO FOLLOW
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AND LISTEN TO SOME TRILL SHIT
I don’t think white women have any place or business in any discussions concerning Black women’s hair.
I think white women can listen and learn (especially if they have black children), but the urge to tell us how we should feel about our hair is absolutely not one that they should give into. Ever. Anyone wanting to be an ally of black women around hair should use their voices in the workplace & the media.
(Source: notesonascandal)
Esoterica: The Right Look: Lightening Dark Skin For Beauty, Money and Cancer
Until today I’d assumed “whitewashing” (the practice of bleaching one’s skin to alter its color to a lighter and thus more appealing tone) had all but died in most parts of the modern world.
Holy fuck was I wrong.
This year, British Vogue’s November 2011 cover features…
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Ruser, 1950s
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Paul Lienard, 1905
Christie’s
Let me talk to you about books.
Specifically, one book. This book.
This book should be a best seller. This book should be required reading for graduating from high school. Before you get that diploma, you read this book.
This book deals with debunking “Neurosexism,” which is a very fancy term for all of that evolutionary psychology bullshit that people spill about those “brain differences” between boys and girls.
This book debunks such myths as:
- Boys are better at math than girls
- Women make crappy lawyers/business CEOs/etc, as their brains are not cut out for aggression.
- Men make crappy counselors/primary school teachers/primary parents/etc, as their brains are not cut out for empathy.
- MEN ARE BUILT FOR GOING OUT AND HUNTING WHILE WOMEN ARE BUILT FOR STAYING HOME AND BABYMAKING IT’S NOT SEXISM IT’S JUST BIOLOGY
- And many other such myths.
Furthermore, this book covers topics such as:
- Neurosexism and gender perceptions in multiple races (as this is not a singularly white experience, just as the western world isn’t a singularly white experience)
- Sex discrimination in the workplace, and how women are (or, more often, are not) allowed to behave
- How science is used (badly) to support many of these claims
- Experiences of trans* people, both through interviews and empirical studies.
AND FINALLY - It is all brilliantly researched, cited, compiled - and it’s easy to read! Cordelia Fine actually manages to be funny while writing this, which I think is important, because it makes all of this information infinitely accessible.
Delusions of Gender has reinforced what Oberlin taught me: The gender binary is stupid and arbitrary, and dangerous. And it is a self-perpetuating bias that needs to be addressed to be overcome.
(Source: likefrancium)
When we’re diminished by disharmony, when our soul cluster has taken a major hit, or when we’re in a state of stress, anxiety, or fear, we become vulnerable to intrusions entering our personal energetic field. When the intrusions are strong enough, they may take up residence, distorting the pattern of our matrix and producing the symptoms recognizable as illness.
In spirit medicine, illness is caused by intrusions — by something that comes into us from without. It could be a virus, a bacterium, an arrow, or a negative thought form. However, from the shaman’s perspective, the illness intrusion is not the primary issue. The real problem is the diminishment of our personal power or the holes torn in the fabric of our soul that allowed the intrusion to enter in the first place.
Negative thoughts, feelings, and intentions can be directed toward us like spiritual poison darts by those who hold us in disregard — an old lover or spouse who just can’t let go, a hostile neighbor who spews forth profanity at us, in-laws who find us unworthy, or a jealous sibling or co-worker who simply despises us. When this is done with outright malice, it forms the modus operandi of negative witchcraft and sorcery. The Yoruba people of West Africa call it juju.
When the negative thought forms become frequent, generated by another’s anger toward us, for example, they take on density, continually fueled by the heightened emotions of the sender. Our body soul immediately picks them up. Remember, the body soul is the perceiver of that which can be seen, as well as that which is unseen. It notices everything, even those things that we’re not consciously aware of.
Necklace
1880s
Christie’s
Brooch
Lang Antiques
