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December 2018

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Why ‘female-presenting nipples’ matter

lettersbyelise:

aibidil:

When I was 10, my mom made me wear a bra and it felt like a punishment for being different.

When I was 10, I took the bra off when changing for gymnastics and accidentally dropped it in the school hallway. A teacher picked it up and said, “Oh, this must belong to you” and handed it back to me in front of everyone. I quit gymnastics.

When I was 11, I thought maybe the boobs would be okay so long as they didn’t get any bigger than would fit in my hand, so I kept measuring it, but they did.

When I was 12, I started wearing two or three sports bras to smush them down, until one day a classmate said, “Are you wearing two bras?!” while laughing.

When I was 13, a boy told me he wanted to squeeze my boobs “until they popped.”

When I was 14, I got cast in a play as an older character and a classmate told me I got the role because I had boobs.

When I was 17, my mom told me to return a swimsuit because it would be too distracting for my boyfriend’s father.

When I was 21, I got properly fitted for a bra and everyone felt the need to tell me how much better my boobs looked.

When I was 26, I got pregnant and my immediate fear was that my boobs would get bigger.

When I was 28, I got shamed for trying to feed my screaming baby in public without a cover.

When I was 28, people asked me “why are you bothering to use a breastfeeding cover?”

When I was 30, people gave me weird looks that I wasn’t yelling at my kid for putting their hand on my boob.

When I was 31, I avoided going to the beach or pool because I didn’t want to have to deal with boobs in a swimsuit.

When I was 32, I got asked, again, “why don’t you get a breast reduction?”

When I was 33, I watched a 5yo girl get shamed for running around in sweltering heat without a shirt on and had to reprimand a bunch of tween boys who thought it was okay to shame her for doing something they do all the time.

When I was 34, my kid kept patting my breast and saying “Mommy’s squishy breast!!” They will never see me express any shame about tits, because I want them to have a different mindset than I had. Yes, boobs are nice! They’re squishy! They’re fun! That’s the end of that.

I’m 35 and no longer give a fuck. I don’t care anymore. As a teenager my tits were covered in stretch marks. They’ve been engorged with milk. My nipple changed shape with pregnancy. Give it another couple decades and my breasts will probably be all wrinkly. It’s sexual when I’m using it sexually. I don’t fucking care, and I won’t be ashamed anymore. 

Every time a policy or cultural hangup treats people with breasts differently, it fucks us over. 

Tumblr’s new policy makes an active choice to participate in this culture of shame. By classifying “female-presenting nipples” as explicit material, Tumblr has taken a stance that any chest or breast that differs from a male default is worthy of shame and unavoidably sexual. The idea that breasts are shameful and unavoidably sexual is exactly what fucked me up for so much of my life.

Stop shaming people for having bodies. 

I’ve been seething in rage thinking of this all day and @aibidil put into words what was reeling in my mind.

Our bodies are not porn.

Dec 8, 2018 81,805 notes
the workmans heart

Dedicated to A,
Who has always had a heart for the world.

My heart has become
At some point
A delicate and fragile thing
An object d'art
instead of a Workmans tool

What happened to the vigor
The strength and resilience?

What made me wish to display
My grease stained wrenches
My mauled hammer
My pneumatic jack stand

And in the display
To observe myself

To seek to polish out
the well earned dings and scratches

And how did I not know
that all this sanding and polishing

Would remove too much
And the metal would lose it’s strength

So break out the welders boys
And invest in brazing rods as well

We’re not in this for a perfect bead.
We’re building Workmans tools

So fit it comfortably to the hand
And make it strong and powerful
And fuck any and all aesthetic
Except that which truly follows function

Build up a heart for war
And weld to it a mind which can process
And an ear to hear
And eyes to see
And feet to go
And arms to hold

And let our battles be won
Let us turn all the power of our new pneumatic hearts
to the world
And lets effect some cures
And lets listen to those who are hurting more
And lets see those who are in pain
And lets go to where they are
And let us hold out our arms.

For even if the mind can not find a solution,
It can understand the problem

And even if our arms can not overcome the enemy
We can wrap them around those who have been injured

And in this way our hearts can feed each other
And grow strong

Stronger than the enemy
Stronger than our fears
Stronger than ourselves
And in this way, we will return
To the one true God,
To the only true God,
Who is Love
For all
And nothing more.

Dec 7, 2018
Alternatives to Tumblr if Yahoo goes any further

mckaytriarchy:

arubbishmedic:

bollymusings:

nickthenerd:

  1. Soup.io - well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.
  2. TypePad - Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.
  3. Jux - Artful posts, beautiful blogging experience

Reblogging cause one day it just may be neccessary.

It became necessary

WordPress will also import Tumblr blogs.

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