I like how sweden just decided one day that gender is fucking bullshit so they got a gender neutral pronoun and stopped separating boy clothes and girl clothes and have pictures of spiderman pushing a baby stroller in a toy magazine why isn’t every country like sweden
you push that stroller sassy spiderman!
you fight those bad guys girlfriend!
you style that hair lil’ dude!
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Hello all! I made this comic to help me get out my frustrations with my life-long body issues.Please check out my art if you like what you see! colleenclarkart.tumblr.com
And thank you Better, Drawn for this awesome concept!
-Colleen Clark
Can I just say WOW to this comic. god dang.
Really amazing!
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i am constantly determined to go out and be with the people i like and care about but it takes so much personal amping up for me to be emotionally prepared to be out, “on”, and social
and like sometimes the amping up itself is so exhausting i just give up and feel terrible about myself and stay in bed all night
it’s particularly difficult now with all the stress i’m under
WHY CAN’T BEING WITH PEOPLE BE EASY
edit: it’s doubly hard when the majority of my friends are neurotypical and not at all sympathetic to issues like anxiety or depression (“oh, you’re just nervous! oh, so you’re just sad? let’s just get drunk lolol”)
This is my biggest problem right now. I just came back to my hometown and I’ve been wanting to see my friends ever since…It’s been more than two weeks now and I can’t even get myself to text/call to tell them I’m here let alone actually meet up with them…
ugh! staying in touch with people/being with them is too hard.
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I didn’t fall in love
I walked to it in steady steps
With eyes wide open
I am standing in love
Not falling in love
I want you with every bit of consciousness in me.
- Ghada Al Samman
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Images from the series Irandokht by Najaf Shokri, 2006-2009 (via).
According to Shokri, “One day outside the Statistic and Registration Administration in Tehran, I discovered piles of discarded identity cards by the dustbins. They were all of women born in the early 1940s, who were photographed in their youth. The astonishing diversity of hair-dos – only a minority wore a scarf or chador – reflected the variety of choices that women had in the late 1950s and 60s. The ID cards also represented the many different classes and personalities of women of the time, from shy and demure to upfront, confident and glamorous.
When I found these pictures, sometime in 2005, I wondered whether these women had died, never renewed their identity or emigrated. It seemed to me that the government was most probably erasing evidence of our recent and distant past, for these photographs oppose the current dominant culture. I was shocked that these records of our community could be discarded so easily, without remorse. Photography is more about discovering than creating. Being a finder is the dominant, innate state. In Irandokht I have tried to stitch together another aspect of our history, one that is not about throwing away, ignorance and corruption. To me, discarding history reflects the intolerance and negligence of institutions in power. The Irandokht series invites the audience to face a certain period without any judgment. These women lived in Iran, and I feel I am in some way reviving and preserving their memory.” (quote source)
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