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August 22, 2012
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But seriously…

fuckyeahchoice:

Do not compare something that isn’t slavery to slavery. Do not compare something that isn’t the holocaust to the holocaust.

I don’t care what marginalized group you’re a part of. I don’t care what side you are on. 

Please just don’t. If you can’t present the terrors of what you are fighting against without this you are not good at presenting arguments and you should leave it to someone else. 

I see it literally ALL THE TIME. On every side of everything. Everything is Hitler or slavery. No. Stop. 

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August 22, 2012
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courageouscampaign: But seriously.

courageouscampaign:

But seriously.

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July 10, 2012
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"Because women are not deemed as important as men in most Muslim majority or minority communities, Muslim women do not enjoy a status equal to men. If the definitive basis for what Islam means is determined by what Muslims do, then women and men are not equal. However, I reasoned that only explicit Qur’anic indication that women and men were other than co-equals could require acceptance of this inequality as a basis of faithfulness to Islam. Mercifully, the more research I did into the Qur’an, unfettered by centuries of historical androcentric reading and Arabo-Islamic cultural predilections, the more affirmed I was that in Islam a female person was intended to be primordially, cosmologically, eschatologically, spiritually, and morally a full human being, equal to all who accepted Allah as Lord, Muhammad as prophet, and Islam as [religion]. What remained was to advocate the details of this research as legitimate grounds for contesting the unequal treatment that women have experienced historically and continue to experience legally in the context of Muslim communities.
The confirmation of women’s equality that resulted from my studies in the Qur’an ws overwhelming… ."

— Amina Wadud, Qur’an and Women: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Women’s Perspective (via rahgheer)

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July 10, 2012
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courageouscampaign: You are not alone.  I, too, am 1 in 3.  

courageouscampaign:

You are not alone.  I, too, am 1 in 3.  

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damnedswitchbitch:

Hachiko, a dog who waited at the train station for his owner to return from work everyday. One day, his owner suffered a heart attack at work and never came home. Hachi continued to wait for his return - appearing exactly when the train was due at the station - for the next nine years.

Great, now I am fucking crying!

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April 29, 2012
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foreheadtittaes: theoriginalsettler: Nicholas Sparks’ newest book/film should be called “White People Embracing”. Ooh, now I kinda want a collection of short stories from Nicholas Sparks

foreheadtittaes:

theoriginalsettler:

Nicholas Sparks’ newest book/film should be called “White People Embracing”.

Ooh, now I kinda want a collection of short stories from Nicholas Sparks

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April 15, 2012
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browncoatashaman:

alice-unchained:

my dad ate a cucumber today and he was like “wow this is pretty cold” and then he just slowly put the cucumber down and stared into space for a really long time until he turned to me with wide eyes and quietly said, “oh my god. cool as a cucumber.” 

omg I laughed way harder than I should have.

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April 15, 2012
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klorella:

Don’t we all, really.

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April 15, 2012
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"I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society."

— Marilyn Manson (via sylviamorris)

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damnedswitchbitch: asindifferentchildren: teawithturtle: blueandbluer: iapetusneume: historymiss: kei-9: marian-vael: leafychan: surrealsadi: aroihkin: randomminer: don’t forget anxiety!! Everyone who knows me knows someone with lupus, fibro, and chronic fatigue. If you don’t know anyone else with an invisible illness, you know me. My mother suffers Arthritis, Depression, and probably a few others. Asthma is an invisible illness, which I suffer. It may not be painful, but the coughing and shortness of breath can be terrifying to live with. I also likely have some form of Depression. My best friend has RSD(which is sorta like fibromyalgia, but not), and is Bi Polar. I know at least one person close to me for every one of these illnesses listed above as well as some other not listed. And while my own severe ADD and my migraines pale in comparison to many of these, I am entirely full of sympathy for anyone having to deal with them. Having hypothyroidism is like having PMDD every single day of your life. It makes every single tiny thing a possible trigger for a mood swing from hell. It makes you fat, it makes you tired, it makes you depressed, it makes you cold year round, it makes your body ache, it causes insomnia. And these are just the problems that I have, there are loads more effects I’m lucky enough to dodge for now. I suffer from depression, as do some members of my family and several of my friends. About five years ago I nearly lost one of my closest friends to depression. Every day I wish I could have seen it sooner, and I thank God she’s still alive. Anyone with an invisible illness has my utmost sympathy. I know dozens of people who suffer from invisible illnesses.  I’m also one of them - I have clinical depression. Almost everyone I know has one of these at this point.  When my migraines became chronically out of control, and I was having daily headaches, I just stopped talking about them altogether. I didn’t want to sound like a complainer, so people thought I was fine — when really I was waking up with headache, working with a headache, and trying to sleep with a headache.  I actually forgot what it felt like to not have pain in my head. I was born to a family where everyone (this is no joke and no exaggeration) suffered from severe depression at some point of their lives. It destroyed my family. One of the unpleasant side effects of depression is migraines and me and my mother have them at least once a week it seems. We are blessed enough not to have any of those other illnesses though I had asthma as a child and still suffer from some other chronic illnesses. I know what it is like to go not a single day without any form of pain and I’m very grateful other people become aware of those invisible illnesses too. POTS, anxiety, & depression myself. PCOS, Endometriosis, hypermobility, chronic pain, etc. Don’t judge a person. If their are wearing a smile, doesn’t mean they aren’t suffering, it just means that they are much better than most at fucking hiding it!

damnedswitchbitch:

asindifferentchildren:

teawithturtle:

blueandbluer:

iapetusneume:

historymiss:

kei-9:

marian-vael:

leafychan:

surrealsadi:

aroihkin:

randomminer:

don’t forget anxiety!!

Everyone who knows me knows someone with lupus, fibro, and chronic fatigue. If you don’t know anyone else with an invisible illness, you know me.

My mother suffers Arthritis, Depression, and probably a few others. Asthma is an invisible illness, which I suffer. It may not be painful, but the coughing and shortness of breath can be terrifying to live with. I also likely have some form of Depression. My best friend has RSD(which is sorta like fibromyalgia, but not), and is Bi Polar.

I know at least one person close to me for every one of these illnesses listed above as well as some other not listed. And while my own severe ADD and my migraines pale in comparison to many of these, I am entirely full of sympathy for anyone having to deal with them.

Having hypothyroidism is like having PMDD every single day of your life. It makes every single tiny thing a possible trigger for a mood swing from hell. It makes you fat, it makes you tired, it makes you depressed, it makes you cold year round, it makes your body ache, it causes insomnia. And these are just the problems that I have, there are loads more effects I’m lucky enough to dodge for now.

I suffer from depression, as do some members of my family and several of my friends.

About five years ago I nearly lost one of my closest friends to depression. Every day I wish I could have seen it sooner, and I thank God she’s still alive. Anyone with an invisible illness has my utmost sympathy.

I know dozens of people who suffer from invisible illnesses.  I’m also one of them - I have clinical depression.

Almost everyone I know has one of these at this point. 

When my migraines became chronically out of control, and I was having daily headaches, I just stopped talking about them altogether. I didn’t want to sound like a complainer, so people thought I was fine — when really I was waking up with headache, working with a headache, and trying to sleep with a headache. 

I actually forgot what it felt like to not have pain in my head.

I was born to a family where everyone (this is no joke and no exaggeration) suffered from severe depression at some point of their lives. It destroyed my family. One of the unpleasant side effects of depression is migraines and me and my mother have them at least once a week it seems. We are blessed enough not to have any of those other illnesses though I had asthma as a child and still suffer from some other chronic illnesses.
I know what it is like to go not a single day without any form of pain and I’m very grateful other people become aware of those invisible illnesses too.

POTS, anxiety, & depression myself.

PCOS, Endometriosis, hypermobility, chronic pain, etc. Don’t judge a person. If their are wearing a smile, doesn’t mean they aren’t suffering, it just means that they are much better than most at fucking hiding it!

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