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I’m not always political on the internets, but when I am, it’s going to be a long post. This is why Twitter doesn’t work for me. 😉 Up front I’m going to say if you read this whole post and this post offends you, then please unfriend me, but just know that, that probably means you are part of the problem. To my White friends, I know most of you are on the same page as me and trying hard to check your own privilege and unconscious bias on a daily basis and educate yourself about issues of racism so that you can vote and act accordingly. But if you don’t know what privilege, unconscious bias or systemic racism is, it is your responsibility to educate yourself. Just because you have not experienced something or witnessed something yourself doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. That in itself is a privilege. If your are looking at that photo of that officer kneeling on an African American man’s neck and I ask you, how would you feel if that was your son and your very first instinctual thought is “that would never happen to my son” that is privilege. If you go out jogging at any time and any place you please and never consider that you might get shot for it, that is privilege. If you get pulled over by the police for running a stop sign and you aren’t terrified that you might get shot when you reach for your license, that is privilege. If you can put on a virus mask and your biggest worry is that your glasses will fog up, not that you will be mistaken for a criminal, that is privilege. You and I can never truly understand what it is like to be a person of color in America. But the only way to build empathy is through knowledge and understanding. I am of the opinion that most people in America are truly ignorant about most of American history. The history of African Americans in this country involves 400 years of brutal slavery, 100 years of Jim Crow, and only about 55 years since the start of the civil rights era. If you don’t think there is still scars and trauma from 500 years of oppression that can’t be erased in 55 years, then I don’t know how to explain it to you. I am a student of history and a librarian by training so if you are interested in learning more about these topics, my go to move is going to be to recommend some books and a couple of podcasts. You can’t get all your information from Facebook or clicking around the Internet. Sometimes you have to read some books. You don’t even have to read them anymore. Most of these books are available as audiobooks and you can probably check them out for free from your local library. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin D’Angelo. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy The Children in Room E4: American Education On Trial by Susan Easton Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum Plus the two part series that This American Life did called “Cops See It Differently Part 1 & 2” (link) Also, understanding redlining is a good way to understand how systemic racism works. (Link)

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i dont understand why y’all are drawing eddie brock as a twink like??? sure he dresses in baggy clothes n isn’t 6ft tall but he cannonically looks like this

And y’all are drawing him like he’s an 18 y/o kpop singer

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This Michael Hobbes thread literally made me cry on my commute to work. Was weirdly thinking about this subject this morning. I’ve been overweight my whole life. The first time I went to a weight watchers meeting I was in elementary school. Anyone who believes genetics is not involved should look at my family. I take after my father’s side. He and my grandmother also battled weight their whole lives. My entire mom’s family is the type of people who can eat McDonald’s every day and still be stick thin. But in addition to my body’s genetic predisposition to retain Wilmington, I honestly believe that the size I am now is directly related to the amount of shaming I experienced from the time I was about 6 right through high school. I felt so badly about myself, that I felt I was not worthy of anything, including love. I took myself out of activities and being social and I was terrified to try any experience because I believed I was too fat. I missed out on most of the social experiences that “normal” people have in their 20s, because I was felt I was too fat to experience them. I was a dancer—a pretty good one according to my teachers. When I hit 13, I stopped doing that even though I loved it, because I felt so judged about being overweight. If you think someone in this state of shame and self-hatred is going to get healthy and lose weight, you know nothing about mental health. Add to this the stress of my mother dying of breast cancer from late high school until I was 24, being forced to drop out of college because of my family’s financial difficulties and my weight ballooned to the biggest I ever was. People who know me might be surprised to know that at one time I was even bigger than I am now.

Anyway, I’m going to stop this feelings dump since this isn’t the thing I usually do. But this thread definitely touched a nerve this morning. My body and what it looks like is not anyone else’s problem or business but mine and why it should be so offensive to people who don’t even know me is mind-boggling to me.

“Diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. “

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This clap back deserves a 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Oh Lord, I relate to this too much lately.

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My favorite one is the brown garden costume in the bottom right and the red one in the center.

claire + paris wardrobe

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I can live with that.

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Dear lord. 😍

More of my boy Julian Edelman 

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@provenance I told you this was in “my orbit.”

Jittermuffin

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😍😍😍

When he was 15, he was given a clinical diagnosis. “‘He’s minor psychotic, schizophrenic with psychopathic tendencies.’ That was a doctor’s opinion of me,” says Hardy, taking a deep drag on his vape. “Which was fucking amazing. That’s a heavy fucking label for a 15-year-old. And it’s a bullshit label. I smoked a bit of weed and I had antisocial behaviour and I was hurting, and maybe I acted out in front of the doctor to get a reaction. Or I was feeling frightened, or feeling judged, and it was a cry for help, which comes out the side of your neck, like a toddler, but it happened as a teenager, and the next thing you’re in the shit. And then how are you going to get out of the shit once you’re in it?”

Read the full interview in Esquire UK and pick up a copy on newsstands now. Interview by Miranda Collinge @mcollface  Photographs by Greg Williams @gregwilliamsphotography Styling by Nicole Schneider @nschneiderstyle Wearing @gucci 

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@provenance Proof that Tom Hardy has grown into his face.

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And he said that the child at the table next to us was possessed--I'm pretty sure he was correct.

Lobster Pot

Provincetown, Massachusetts - 7/1/14

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@provenance I will literally put my money down this moment to preorder a ticket to make this happen.

TAKE MY MONEY, DISNEY!!!

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@provenance this is accurate.

THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF

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I would so go to this if I was local

The Library of Congress will be hosting a series of disco themed programs and events (the series is named “Library of Congress Bibliodiscotheque”) this spring! Some of the bigger events are the disco party with Gloria Gaynor, an interview with Tim Gunn on disco fashion, and a range of movie screenings.

Tickets will be available beginning at 10 a.m. on March 30 at this website.

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#TBT to March 6, 2015 and @punchbrothers at the House of Blues, Boston. #punchbrothers #hobboston #livemusic #livemusicphotography #concerts #concertphotography (at House of Blues Boston)

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Don't look so down. #graffiti #wideangle #olloclip #winthrop #beach #winthropbeach #goldenhour #advice #publicserviceannouncement (at Winthrop Beach)