#nl_art

[oh-noplss]

my DD & haley 👫🐶

[heartofoshun]

OMG! Nailed again!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/30/opinion/privacy-targeted-advertising.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20190430&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=0&nlid=63889185emc%3Dedit_ty_20190430&ref=headline&te=1

[librarycards]

"When I play with my stuffed animals — many of which come from the Pusheen cuteness empire — I’m not trying to reach a new developmental stage. I am, for the most part, just trying to amuse my partner or myself. I hold Sloth like an ersatz dirigible until he slowly, inexorably boops her in the head. Birthday Pusheen celebrates my partner’s birthday every time she sees her. Even when I’m alone, I will often squish one of them, watching its expression and mood shift as it swells and settles into a new shape. I can cherish the strange way one animal inflated, or the way my partner’s face lit up at another’s antics. Like daydreams, like sweet pastries consumed in secret, what the animals and their gags offer is pure delight. They enhance our private vocabulary and emotional flexibility, adding texture to conscious feelings, domesticating the unconscious ones."

[dykehaus]

can’t stop thinking about these

[jbthom]

Is North Carolina getting ready to flip blue?

[shakespearenews]

“In the 57 years that the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park has played at the Delacorte, “Othello” is the first production with four core design roles filled by women“ 

[oh-noplss]

Doodle Robin Dick from Batman/Superman world’s finest.❤️💚💛

[librarycards]

Today, even though one-third of diagnosed eating disorders are found in men, we overwhelmingly associate the medical diagnosis of anorexia nervosa with women (a more obscure term, anorexia mirabilis, denotes undereating as a form of religious asceticism, and is not listed as a medical condition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). All this suggests that in society when a woman intentionally fasts, we are more likely to see her as sick; and when a man does it, we consider him spiritual.

[...]

To point out this gender disparity around fasting is not to ignore the very real problem of eating disorders. In an age where anorexia nervosa and bulimia are prevalent among both men and women, there is sufficient reason to be cautious in branding any fast as “spiritual” — doing so might give cover by offering a religious justification in cases that may very well be psychological and physical in nature. The American cultural obsession with thinness and the demonization of body fat that magnify critical self-image and the psychological aspects of eating disorders should not be taken lightly. But that does not negate the misunderstanding and gender stereotyping that often surrounds intentional fasting for spiritual or political purposes.

[splitnibs]

Monday after holiday break: Don’t wanna work. Just wanna read. 

[mikkeneko]

It’s funny; usually when a new year begins I have trouble making the adjustment from the old year. I find myself having to scribble out “2017″ when writing dates and writing over them -- yet not this year. I’ve had no trouble at all remembering that we’re in 2018 now.

February is almost over and 2018 has well begun. This is the year of midterm elections. While the big date isn’t till November, there’s lots of stuff going on before then, starting even now -- Arizona special House primaries are today, February 27th. Texas primaries are March 6th.

Don’t wait until November to get busy. Check your state’s voting schedule. Make sure you’re registered, and make sure you know where and when local polling stations are open. Voter suppression is a real, huge problem, but in many places you CAN still vote if you’re able to jump through the hoops. Don’t let anything stop you.

Tag this post with “Voting Reference” so you can always find it again later.