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Guess what: women, including athletes, have nipples

Some people watching Wimbledon complained about Serena’s nipples poking through her shirt while she played tennis. Guess what? That can happen to women. See the best responses defending her.

Photos: Juergen Hasenkopf/REX/Shutterstock/Mark Greenwood/IPS/BPI/BPI /Wikimedia Commons/Sascha Grabow/Yves Picqhimba/Electric one/Amada44

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Exo Queen B by f1x-2

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*pours coconut oil over entire life*

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This is beautiful, please reblog and support these ladies!

Natural Dolls for Natural Girls

On Monday evening, little girls clutching balloons and cake couldn’t help but bust a move in Providence’s Social Enterprise Greenhouse. The youngsters were celebrating the launch of a $35K Kickstarter campaign in support of Healthy Roots, a collection of African-American, Haitian, Nigerian, Pacific Islander and Afro-Brazilian dolls designed to combat racism and racial stereotypes by encouraging young black females to embrace their natural hair. 

According to founder and creative director Yelitsa Jean-Charles 16 IL (top photo, second from left), approximately 50% of children in the US are of color – but only 8% of children’s books have main characters of color. “These numbers don’t add up,” she points out. “It’s time to bring true diversity to the toy isle…. No one should feel less than because of the color of their skin or the kink of their curl.”

The project also includes an instructive hair care manual and book series.

With a clear social mission in mind, team members Zanya Harriott, Ingrid Nelson 17 GD, Zharia Shinn 18 IL, Nitashia Johnson MAT 15 and Anisa Holmes BRDD 16 GD helped design 3D-printed models, which are now ready to be manufactured using synthetic hair fibers and non-toxic plastics. 

“To get these dolls in the arms of little girls, we need to reach our minimum order of 2,500 dolls,” notes Jean-Charles. “We’re ready to go. We just need everyone’s orders.”

Jean-Charles is optimistic about the prospects. Healthy Roots recently earned a Brown University Social Innovation Fellowship – a program that provides intensive skills training, complementary coursework and a community of social entrepreneurs offering mentorship and critique. The team has also found an outpouring of support from RISD’s E'Ship Program, Brown Breakthrough Innovation Lab and the MassChallenge Accelerator Program.

“Healthy Roots teaches girls of color self-love through education, diversity and positive representation,” Jean-Charles explains. “If the toys we play with influence how we perceive ourselves, imagine the kind of impact we can have with a toy that aims to inspire and empower.”

Learn more about the growth of Healthy Roots on risd.edu.

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the all-knowing woofular unit 

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A work in progress

Still mad dismissive and unappreciative but my sense of humour remains unparalleled.

Do you guys ever go through old messages and get a slap to the face when you realize that you have no recollection of having written half the thing you did. This digital form that bears great resemblance to present day you seems so absolutely foreign.

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The sun in H-alpha. 

Taken with a Takahashi telescope and a Cannon Rebel T2i

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Cuba

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Dog owner pretends to suddenly collapse while walking his dog and records the dog’s reaction.

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When your shift is ova and your manager say “Can you stay longer?”