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Fragmented Perception.

@distorted-ambience / distorted-ambience.tumblr.com

Danielle 😌|| 21 || INFP ||
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let 👏 bisexual 👏 girls 👏 love 👏 boys

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LET 👏 BISEXUAL 👏 GIRLS 👏 LOVE 👏 BOYS

who’s stopping them

Lesbians who say they’ll never date a girl that has touched a man. People that say bi girls will cheat because they’re bi. There’s so much biphobia not only with straight people, but in the gay community

my lesbian friends who told me they were “high-key disappointed” when i started dating a cishet boy. my ex girlfriend who asked me “wait weren’t you gay” and then when i explained i was bi went “um. ew lol”. the whole “gold star lesbian” bullshit. can we face the biphobia in the lgbt community instead of shoving it under the rug lol

I’ve seen and reblogged this for the boy version as well, so it’s only fair if I do it for girls as well!!

LET 👏 GIRLS 👏 LOVE 👏 WHOEVER 👏 THEY 👏 LOVE

Girls, guys and non bianary people that are bisexual are at constant war with biphobia. Don’t be an ass we aren’t whores or dirty we exist as much as you. You biphobic fucks jut aren’t cool enough to hang with us!

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All of the angry anti-radfem stuff that I see about periods has lately been bothering me. I’ve been in my bed today, with heating pads and ibuprofen, trying to distract myself from my uterus twisting around, and I’ve been giving it some thought.

A few days ago I saw someone say that older radfems “teach younger women to drink period blood”. I see complains about uterus artwork, about women who use period blood in their wiccan/witchcraft rituals, women being asked not to speak about their periods as women, and of course women describing vulvas as a “nightmare of flesh”. We’re accusing of reducing ourselves to genitalia, of being obsessed with our periods, told that nobody is oppressed because of their menstrual cycle (sometimes, of course, they add “in America”, as if female oppression is something else we’ve outsourced).

My mom told me that, when she was a kid, she didn’t wrap up a tampon enough when she threw it in the trash. Her dad called her in and hit her because “her brothers could have seen”. She tells me that one of the first times she fell in love with my dad was when she found out he kept tampons in his bathroom “just in case”. 

I remember being told that I couldn’t use the bathroom once in middle school, as I had already gone that class. My friend gave me a sweatshirt to tie around my waist after I bled through my pants. 

I remember in gym class, when we went out to run, trying to explain to my male teacher that I couldn’t run because I was on my period. He told me that I didn’t have a sick note and that telling him was inappropriate. I threw up on the track.

When I talk to doctors about my irregular periods, they tell me I must use hormonal birth control. We don’t have any medications that weren’t made to make women sexually available. The “period” you get on birth control is withdrawal from hormones. Nobody tells me for years that hormonal birth control doesn’t mix with mood disorders. Five doctors put me on this routine. Each time I go crazy. When I refuse with the last doctor, tell her I can’t do it again, she tells me to “grow up”.

My period hurts, hurts more than it should, with PCOS. My grandmother had it, had surgery after surgery like many women in her family, to remove ovaries bit by bit. They wouldn’t take them all out at first because, the doctors said, they might want to give birth. My grandmother calls it “her cancer”, because that’s how the doctor described it to her.

I know a woman who passed out in class. The teacher called an ambulance, and when they got there and she woke up she was mortified. She had endometriosis and she was angry that others had seen her in pain. I read later that cramps can be more painful than a heart attack. 

I ask if I can postpone a meeting at a job until the next day. My co-worker asks if I am PMSing because I’ve been so grumpy all day. I go to the restroom and vomit, because the nausea from my period is so awful. I miss days sometimes because I can’t make it out of bed.

So when I see positivity about periods, when I see people trying to make art about this thing we have in common, when I see women talking about ways to make their period more comfortable, when I see the stitched pads they make, when I see people who can view the period as somehow divine, I truly do appreciate it. It isn’t gross, or awful. What’s gross and awful is telling us to be silent, not letting us learn, not making accommodations, the idea that this is a thing that we have to actively hide.

I don’t think those things are “glorifying” periods, but so what if they are? I think that taking something that hurts and making it into something positive and beautiful is incredible. I think that accepting ourselves as we are and finding ways to love that are some of the best things we can do in life.

So, as I lay here, in a lot of pain, I just want to say thanks for all the talk about menstruation. I love your uterus art. I love the things that I’ve learned from women about menstruation–why we have periods and how that relates to our bodies avoiding pregnancy, what normal periods should look like, signs and symptoms of gynecological disorders, and how to use menstrual products that are less toxic to our bodies.

Our periods shouldn’t have a stigma, and we should remember that we aren’t alone. Cheers, and I hope all of you have a great day today :)

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sseureki

black men on twitter: we’re officially cancelling issa rae me:

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Wait tf why would we cancel her shes awesome

What she do lol

I’m not canceling Issa.

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igrantwishes

Candle her for what tho? Black men been sayin shit like this🤔

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yemme

The spectrum as it’s been said is that Black Women and Asian Men are considered the “undesirables.”  It makes sense in her logic that if our counterparts are not interested, find happiness in those that would.  

niggas just want something to be mad at lmao. i love my boo issa.

This all circles back to the people who r giving Kanye a pass but suddenly wanna cancel Issa Rae @black men wassup w that

Wait until the Lawerence Hive finds out that Jay Ellis isn’t filming for season 3 of Insecure

she ain’t getting cancelled for shit. all these dusty niggas complaining can fall back

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moodbig

Good morning tumblr, Who are we cancelling today??

The founder of Adidas was aligned with Adolf Hitler so they’ve been cancelled since WWII

Niggas bout to just start wearing sketchers at this rate =(

I mean they light up and are kinda cute so hey

Im in.

What we wearing in 2018 if this keeps up.

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Being dark skinned with curly and/or wavy hair…

What kind of product do you use to make your hair like that?

Is your hair texturized?

How can I make my hair like yours?

Is your hair naturally that wavy?

You must have Indian in your bloodline.

Wow! I was not expecting your texture to be so manageable.

Is it curly when it’s dry?

I wish my daughter’s hair was like yours. You’re the same complexion.

You lucky you got good hair!

I know I’m hearing all this because I’m dark skinned and people cannot wrap their minds around darker people with looser curls or lighter people with tighter textures.

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African Americans are valid. Their culture is valid.

That being said, stop with the superiority complex (I’m looking at my fellow West Indians and also continental Africans).

We are of one diaspora. Respect and value AA culture and people (respect does not mean only acknowledge it when u want to use it up or shame AAs for learning about African cultures).

Also, stop weaponizing our heritages, languages, phenotypes, and bloodlines and throwing it in their faces. That is evil and dirty.

I felt like this had to be said.

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