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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
If I were your good friend, I would want you to become SOME FORM OF MISFIT out in the open with me. That’s feminism, after all: making room for something other than the twisted world we endured. A nonbinary identity isn’t a betrayal of feminism. It’s perfectly in step with the spirit of feminism. It’s not rejection. It’s a model for casting off what doesn’t fit.
Ask Polly: ‘My Kid Is Nonbinary, and I Can’t Get Over It’
Source: thecut.com
nonbinary hmm i like this
lemonsweetie

Disabled characters are written into stories for one reason: the disability. Do most people actually believe real disabled people spend our days obsessing about being cured? Or rhapsodizing about killing ourselves? Here is the truth: Disabled people barely ever even think about our disabilities. When we do think about them, it’s usually because we are dealing with an oppressive, systemic problem, such as employment discrimination. Can’t there ever be a disabled character in a book or film just because? Where the topic doesn’t ever come up? All sorts of interesting stories can be written about a disabled character, without the disability ever being mentioned. You know, just like real people.

The vast majority of writers who have used disabled characters in their work are not people with disabilities themselves. Because disabled people have been peripheral for centuries, we’ve been shut out of the artistic process since the beginning. As a result, the disabled characters we’re presented with usually fit one or more of the following stereotypes: Victim, Villain, Inspiration, Monster. And the disabled character’s storyline is generally resolved in one of a few ways: Cure, Death, Institutionalization.

Susan Nussbaum, Disabled Characters in Fiction (via kassapti)

I know of a disabled woman who, in a writing class, wrote a disabled character into her story.  The rest of the class spent all day trying to determine what her character’s disability “symbolized”, and refused to believe her when she said the character just had a disability, she wasn’t there for some grand purpose.

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Looking back on 2013

  • 1: What did you do in 2013 that you’d never done before?
  • 2: Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
  • 3: Did anyone close to you give birth?
  • 4: Did anyone close to you die?
  • 5: What countries did you visit?
  • 6: What would you like to have in 2014 that you lacked in 2013
  • 7: What dates from 2013 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
  • 8: What was your biggest achievement of the year?
  • 9: What was your biggest failure?
  • 10: Did you suffer illness or injury?
  • 11: What was the best thing you bought?
  • 12: Whose behaviour merited celebration?
  • 13: Whose behaviour made you appalled?
  • 14: Where did most of your money go?
  • 15: What did you get really, really, really excited about?
  • 16: What song will always remind you of 2013?
  • 17: Compared to this time last year, are you: (a) happier or sadder? (b) thinner or fatter? (c) richer or poorer?
  • 18: What do you wish you’d done more of?
  • 19: What do you wish you’d done less of?
  • 20: How did you spend Christmas?
  • 21: Did you fall in love in 2013?
  • 22: What was your favourite TV program?
  • 23: Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
  • 24: What was the best book you read?
  • 25: What was your greatest musical discovery?
  • 26: What did you want and get?
  • 27: What did you want and not get?
  • 28: What was your favourite film of this year?
  • 29: What one thing made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
  • 30: How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2013?
  • 31: What kept you sane?
  • 32: Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
  • 33: What political issue stirred you the most?
  • 34: Who did you miss?
  • 35: Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2013.
  • 36: Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
hmm this sounds fun you guys do it too!