Guide to loving your body:
1. Get naked and take a good long look at your body. Trace your stretch marks, feel your hip bones poking out, place your hand over your tummy and take a fistful of yourself in. Appreciate your scars and pimples, your uneven,large,or nonexistent breasts. Take pride in your un/shaven, un/cut, fantastically odd private bits. Hold up a mirror to yourself and study your body. Love it.
2. Be Ugly, reclaim words that are used to put you down and shut you up and scream right back at these fascist beauty standard reinforcing scumbags. Give them the finger and tell them to kiss your fat/skinny/somewhere in between ass ‘cause you ain’t got time to waste with their body hating bullshit. and remember, you don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Validate yourself by accepting yourself.
3. Wear clothes that don’t fit, that are too big or too small and show all your “problem areas” that cosmo insists you hide and walk down the street like the fucking fabulous queen you are. Sashay the hate away.
4. Do what YOU want with YOUR body. Shave or don’t, wear makeup or don’t, whatever choice you make is yours to make, and anyone who shames you for your decision can keep it moving. This also means respecting the choices of others, even if they differ from your own.
5. Surround yourself with loving and supportive people. Rid of the toxic bullshit in your life if possible, and immerse yourself in a community that embraces body positivity and diversity.
brazen bitch (via pussy-envy)
a rebloggable version courtesy of pussy-envy
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Disrobing the Chief Justice: Who was Renato Coronado Corona before he joined the Supreme Court in 2002? Rappler investigates.
(Source: rappler.com)
Anti-Black Race Riot Erupts In Tel Aviv, Israel
Violent race riots that shook south Tel Aviv sparked shock in Israel last Thursday, but also prompted top-level calls for the immediate arrest and expulsion of tens of thousands of African migrants.
The latest unrest to sweep the impoverished neighbourhoods around Tel Aviv’s central bus station erupted when a demonstration of around 1,000 people who were protesting against the rising number of Africans moving into the area, turned violent.
“Shock, violence and hatred of foreigners in Tel Aviv” was the headline in the Maariv daily, which described scenes of chaos as demonstrators went on the rampage with sticks and stones, attacking African-run shops and smashing up a car driven by two African men.
“Blacks out!” shouted demonstrators in the crowd, while others yelled: “Send the Sudanese back to Sudan,” several news reports said, as other protesters derided the “bleeding-heart leftists” working to help them.
Wow
Wtf is up with Israel and ethnic cleansing!!! You stole Palestine’s land! You have no right to tell people they don’t belong there!!!
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Khmer Rouge guerrillas during the war of liberation against U.S. imperialism and the Lon Nol puppet regime.
not really seeing how posting/reblogging photos of brown children holding guns is “fuck yeah marxist leninism.” to me this just brings up typical leftist nationalist patriarchal bullshit that romanticizes violence and war.
youth having to weaponize themselves in this way is not something revolutionary, romantic, or good. fuck this.
Philippine photos in LIFE magazine, archived by Google
For those who have a passion for scenes of the bygone eras in the Philippines, @eskapo has been kind enough to share this link. I must admit though, I do get some of the old photos on this blog from that link above.
And just a reminder kids, if you use any of the photos from the link, be courteous enough to put in the name of the photographer and credit the source. It ain’t cool to steal someone else’s photo and post it as your own, especially if you were virtually nonexistent when it was taken. You’d be nothing but a fraud.
Thanks @eskapo!
EDSA, formerly known as Highway 54. When the avenue was constructed during the presidency of Manuel L. Quezon, it was named 19 de Junio (June 19), after the birthday of national hero José Rizal.
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Patsy Mink (1927-2002)
-The first woman of color in the US Congress
-The first Asian American to run for president (1972 Democratic primaries)
-Represented Hawaii for 12 terms
-Authored Title IX
-Served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs under Carter
-As a student at the University of Nebraska, mobilized a coalition to end segregated student housing
-Mother of social justice advocate Gwendolyn (Wendy) Mink
