The Grandest of Gaucheries
"I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me." -Jane Rule


I believe we need more love in the world. We need the courage to live and love wholeheartedly, to be vulnerable and out there, with the belief that those we love will see our beauty and worth and give us the love we deserve. This blog is part of my attempt to live fully, to love generously and courageously.


May this serve as a refuge for anyone else out there feeling like an alien in a foreign land.

glitterpolitic:

This song is heart-breakingly beautiful.  So is Adele.

God I love her.

(via heavymuffintop)

  2:10 pm  |   January 27 2011   |  34 notes  

If we cannot be courageous in our kindness we are not being truly kind.

  2:05 pm  |   January 27 2011   |  12 notes  

youcanchangethisatanytimeanyway:

Explain to future generations it was good for the economy, when they can’t farm the land, breathe the air nor drink the water.

youcanchangethisatanytimeanyway:

Explain to future generations it was good for the economy, when they can’t farm the land, breathe the air nor drink the water.

  2:16 am  |   January 24 2011   |  1,240 notes  

“It is important we talk in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”

—

President Barack Obama (via pinkpanthers)

Yes, we can.

(via missmatie)

  2:13 am  |   January 24 2011   |  342 notes  

From: http://chalkboardmanifesto.com/index.php?comicNum=659

From: http://chalkboardmanifesto.com/index.php?comicNum=659

  2:09 am  |   January 24 2011  

heathermck:

missworld:

grrrlVIRUS flyer made by the lovely Maranda Elizabeth <3

Yaay self-care!

I dream of a world where self-care isn’t a revolutionary act. Where self-care isn’t an act of subversion borne of pain. Until that day, when I am juggling too many balls, sure I can’t put a single one down I will remember that I resist by taking care of myself. That I help build that world of tomorrow by self-caring today.

heathermck:

missworld:

grrrlVIRUS flyer made by the lovely Maranda Elizabeth <3

Yaay self-care!

I dream of a world where self-care isn’t a revolutionary act. Where self-care isn’t an act of subversion borne of pain. Until that day, when I am juggling too many balls, sure I can’t put a single one down I will remember that I resist by taking care of myself. That I help build that world of tomorrow by self-caring today.

  1:44 am  |   January 24 2011   |  1,103 notes  

“I am a lady. As such, ANY decision I make, relating to my body, is controversial! For example: Always wanting to give consent to sex! Controversial. Having sex! Controversial. Having a baby or NOT having a baby: SO controversial, JEEZ. It’s amazing they even let me get dressed in the morning without a qualified male consultant. But Roe v. Wade reminds me that there were ladies who refused to put up with this. They said that deciding what to do with your own uterus was just common sense. And it reminds me that, when we work hard enough, people listen.”

—

Sady Doyle

  (via splatterdick)

38 years after Roe v. Wade and women’s reproductive rights are in extreme peril in the U.S. Fuck that shit. “When we work hard enough, people listen.” Let’s start rabble-rousing!

(Source: greycozyhouse, via thefeministhub)

  1:38 am  |   January 24 2011   |  408 notes  

“No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, who wants to gnaw off its own leg.”

— Frederica Mathewes-Green (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)

(Source: , via thefeministhub)

  6:39 pm  |   January 14 2011   |  234 notes  

“

Prejudice against transmen, that’s me, is based on the sense that we’re trying to muscle in on the privilege of being male that we don’t deserve, we are inadequate, we don’t have penises, and if we do, they’re either weird and tiny or crap. We’re inadequate men, with big bums and crap willies.

Prejudice against transwomen is based on the sense that they’re degrading themselves, they’re funny, a joke, why would you want to be a woman? They’re trying to take a step down in society.

So transphobia is rooted in sexism. Some people believe that transwomen can’t possibly know what it’s like to be a woman because they haven’t experienced sexism. But the transphobia that transwoman get IS sexism, multiplied by a hundred!

”

— —Jake Mason, standing ovation speech given at Hackney Pride (via stfusexists)

(via clitoritastic)

  5:09 am  |   January 13 2011   |  405 notes  

Love it.

Love it.

(via callmebrandy)

  4:58 am  |   January 13 2011  

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