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WE NEED YOUR PARTICIPATION!!! You have been invited to create a world in which menstruation is not a barrier! Follow these steps to raise awareness about the lack of feminine hygiene products in developing nations... 1. Snap a photo of yourself holding any kind of clean feminine hygiene product. Keep in mind that not all women in the world have access to products like this one. 2. Copy and paste this whole post as your caption. 3. Invite your friends to repeat these steps and tag at least 3 others to do the same. Even if you are not tagged, please feel free to participate and use ‪#‎PadsForEmpowerment‬ Please donate to the Dare Women's Foundation crowdfunding campaign for the Project Inspire semi-finals at https://www.chuffed.org/project/dare-womens-foundation to help Tanzanian women start reusable sanitary pads businesses! I'm tagging championsaremade, agirlnamedally, aubernutter, fitnika, and themarzipanvolta because you ladies are everything empowerment is about!

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A reality show in which CEOs have to live off their lowest paid employee’s salary for a month.

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Holy shit turn on the audio

PLEASE TURN ON THE AUDIO

I will reblog this every time I see it because literally every time I cannot handle it

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Since becoming vegan, I have come to realize this: the wider you open your eyes, the darker the world becomes. No matter how hard you try, you can never close them tight enough. The truth sears an everlasting image of the suffering into your retina. From then on, you’ll eternally understand that ignoring the pain of others is truly the cruelest action we can do as conscious beings. Inaction is the plague of the world.

Bianca Nicole Valle (via foster-the-morning)

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We need more people in the world like you agirlnamedally

Weight Loss Tea

I have a great deal of resentment towards tea companies that promote weight loss to young girls, especially those with ‘thin’, ‘skinny’ or ‘detox’ in their name. It’s disappointing to see something that can be such a positive, powerful aid in wellbeing be twisted into another diet scam. I’m getting emails from a different tea brand every week, each containing the same annoying key buzz words and each as frustrating as the last. I have a stock response that I send back to all companies explaining that it doesn’t fit my values or what I want to represent to my followers, but have had almost all of them encourage me to promote it anyway, stating that many of their clients don’t even drink it.

Not only can these products cause dehydration and have powerful laxative effects, the sheer psychological impact of the campaigns is just so toxic. They glorify this incredibly thin physique and market right into diet culture, targeting impressionable, body conscious young girls to spend their money in the hopes of looking a little bit more like their favourite celebrity or blogger. You don’t need tea to ‘detox’; your liver does that for you. You don’t need tea to lose weight, eating healthy and being active will help your body find it’s ideal shape.

They do not care about your health, they want to make sales. Please do not buy into these gimmicks, and if your favourite bloggers are promoting them it’s likely because they’re getting paid. If you’re an influencer online, please take responsibility for the brands and messages you endorse. 

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Friendly reminder for anyone planning on buying a goose jacket this season, this is what you’re supporting 😷

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Me: I like that

Me: *looks at price tag*

Me: I don't like that anymore

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I laughed way too hard at this

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Like seriously I wish we had a more comprehensive sex education program in the U.S. You know how many guys I know who had no idea an unaroused vagina is only 2-3 inches deep? Or that the cervix raises up when aroused to accommodate dick? Or that if a girl is “tight” that generally means she’s not turned on and you’re shitty in bed? Or that the cervix has an entire cycle it goes through throughout the month where is changes hardness, placement in the vagina, wetness? Like, when you’re ovulating your cervix gets soft and raises high up into the vagina and your hormones get you really horny. It’s like natures way of moving the furniture around and fluffing the pillow for dick because it wants to get pregnant. And before menstruation, it gets really hard and low in the vagina. It’s basically inactivating it’s Facebook and saying “I just need some alone time for a few days”

Ladies and gentlemen, take a moment to learn about vaginas. Men, take an interest into your woman’s menstrual cycle!

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Something we learned in nursing school is to eat a big breakfast before you take your medicine so you've at least gotten a decent number of calories in before you lose your appetite.

I just started taking vyvanse for my ADHD and its putting off my appetite a lot. I've lost about 5 pounds so far because I'm rarely hungry, which is fine because I wanted lose weight anyway. But I'm worried when I stop taking it over the summer or something I'm going to eat a bunch and rapidly gain all the weight back.

Yeah that’s probably going to happen if you continue not eating. Not eating is going to slow your metabolism along with a lot of other negative effects. Taking adhd medication is not how you should lose weight. You really should try to eat normal amounts even though your medication is making you not hungry. Weight loss is about eating better, not less!

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Celebrate your body. Not just today, but every day. Think good thoughts and your soul will shine.

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Tell me why you became a vegan, what changed your mind on eating meat?!

I became vegan after I watched Earthlings (youtube it) in February of 2014. I used to eat meat everyday twice a day because I desensitized myself and didn’t see these precious creatures as beings, but as food. Earthlings changed that. It humanized animals so we can relate easier to their suffering. We are all beings, earthlings, sharing this planet together and to coexist we must love each other, animal and human friends alike. 50 billion land animals are killed a year for food and that’s disgusting. Billions of fish are killed a year for food and that’s disgusting. Millions and millions of animals are killed a year for leather/furr etc. and that’s disgusting. 

So I originally went vegan for moral/ethical reasons but another huge/important part of my vegan journey is the environmental aspect of animal agriculture that no one knows about. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change, ocean dead zones, deforestation, and pollution. Some Facts: Livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Animal agriculture use ranges from 34-76 trillion gallons of water annually. Animal agriculture is responsible for 91% of Amazon destruction. For every 1 pound of fish caught, an average of 5 pounds of unintended marine species (whales, seals, dolphins, etc.) are caught and disregarded as by-kill. 6 million animals are killed for food every hour. A person who follows a vegan diet uses 50% less carbon dioxide, 1/11th oil, 1/13th water, and 1/18th land compared to a meat-eater. 

We have a responsibility to be aware of how our actions affect other beings/the earth and we must choose compassion and nonviolence.

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Serendipity saying it how it is

(Dogma, 1999)