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sebastan-stan: ‘It doesn’t take an intellectual to get that I am...

sebastan-stan:

‘It doesn’t take an intellectual to get that I am bisexual.’

thereturnofwomen:Celebrating Butch: A Powerful Photo Collection...

thereturnofwomen:

Celebrating Butch: A Powerful Photo Collection on Female Masculinity

September 19, 2014byMeg Allen

In a world where gender is a strictly enforced binary of male or female, female masculinity can make lots of people uncomfortable – who then make it uncomfortable and even dangerous for butch individuals to just be themselves.

In spite of the harassment and violence experienced by butch folk, butch is being reclaimed with pride to more accurately describe people who identify...

"Do you need an explanation for why there are dragons when the real world doesn’t have dragons?..."

“Do you need an explanation for why there are dragons when the real world doesn’t have dragons? Because it’s a story. Do you need an explanation for why those dragons can fly when logically a creature of that size shouldn’t be able to do so? Because it’s a story. Do you need an explanation for why a human wiggling their fingers and saying certain words causes lightning to shoot out of them and fry that dragon to a crisp? Because it’s a story. Do you need a reason for why that finger-wiggling...

"Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly..."

“Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.”

- David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
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actressesofcolour:Constance Wu photographed for Variety’s Actors...

actressesofcolour:

Constance Wu photographed for Variety’s Actors on Actors

“My birth name is Constance, so I never had to deal with people trying to bastardize my name. There was a scene [in Fresh Off the Boat] where I go to my professor and he says, ‘I don’t call on you because I can’t pronounce your name.’ I say, ‘You could learn to.’ And he says. ‘But most people probably won’t.’ It made me realize how it must have felt for my oldest sister, who didn’t have an American name. That was very...

janesvillanueva:What advice would you give to the young girls of...

janesvillanueva:

What advice would you give to the young girls of the world?

Make Shit

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment:

the-golden-ghost:

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment:

This is your Saturday pep talk.

Today’s topic is: Creating garbage.

Producing bad work is always going to be better than producing nothing. The idea of making trash can twist something dark and nasty in the gut, but making garbage does not mean that you are garbage. You don’t have to get it right on the first try– and if you don’t try at all, you’re never going to get it right.

Make your bad work. Burn it, smash it, bu...

kaylapocalypse:we-are-star-stuff:A Robot In Russia Has Made a...

kaylapocalypse:

we-are-star-stuff:

A Robot In Russia Has Made a Second Escape Attempt

A robot in Russia caused an unusual traffic jam last week after it “escaped” from a research lab, and now, the artificially intelligent bot is making headlines again after it reportedly tried to flee a second time, according to news reports.

The Promobot IR77 is programmed to understand and learn from its experiences and surroundings and has now twice escaped from the facility it is housed in. The robot is pr...

interludepress:BEACH DAY?Need a book for a lazy day? How about...

interludepress:

BEACH DAY?

Need a book for a lazy day? How about one of these summer reads?

Into the Blue by Pene Henson: Tai Talagi and Ollie Birkstrom have been inseparable since they met as kids surfing the North Shore. Tai’s spent years setting aside his feelings for Ollie, but when Ollie’s pro surfing dreams come to life, their steady world shifts. Is the relationship worth risking everything for a chance at something terrifying and beautiful and altogether new?

Seven Tears at High...