“We have only just opened our eyes.”
- Episode 4: Hiding In The Light, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
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s/o to all the girls with hairy tummies, hairy arms, hairy knuckles, bushy eyebrows, deep set under-eye circles, and hyper-pigmentation of their skin. s/o to girls with “man-hands,” “masculine-framed bodies,” brown eyed, dark skinned, acne scarred bodies, and stretch-mark scarred bodies.
i hope that you love yourself as much as i love you and that someday you meet people who love you as much as you love yourself.
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every time i point out that sexualising things explicitly linked to little girls/children is fucked up i get messages like “be careful not to kink shame!! uwu!!” go fuck yourselves you deserve to be shamed
(photos and article by Mariah Stewart)
Two Prominent Ferguson Protesters Get Engaged
“You are looking at two people that stood shoulder to shoulder, faced rubber bullets, tear gas and discrimination. … To be a black woman in America is an unfathomably deep struggle to go through day in and day out. And being a lesbian black woman in America — you just see how each level compounds,” Spann said. “These two women represent the idea of freedom. They represent the idea of love and that black lives matter and have power and passion. It comes full circle; it’s like watching poetry write itself.”
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ppl always ask me how i became comfortable with my body despite my size; the process of coming 2 luv urself is long and complicated and nuanced and personal and cant rlly be summed up in a neat lil package, but here are some questions to consider that helped me a lot: who is making these rules? why
Empathy & Compassion in the brain
Empathy is a complicated task for the brain.Reptiles probably can’t do it and it’s going to occur in pretty simple forms for most mammals. But in humans, it really engages the frontal lobes: these newer regions of the brain that are involved in more complex symbolic processes like language, considering alternatives and imagining the future. Empathy requires that you think: there’s someone else out there who has feelings and thoughts that may be different from mine. That’s a complicated cognitive achievement!
Compassion —the caring instinct— is located down in the center of the brain, near the top of the spinal cord where a lot of our basic instincts are regulated. It’s a very old part of the brain called the periaqueductal gray, which is common to mammals when they take care of their young.
So that’s striking: there’s one kind of thing —empathy— that’s really about understanding people (very complicated!) in the frontal lobes. But caring is is really old in the nervous system.
Learn about the evolutionary roots of compassion & empathy →
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aintnothingbutaveganchickenwing:
i’m watching unwrapped and it’s all about donuts and i just
The definition of food porn. Thank gawd for Krispy Kreme!!
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