Klonk! [x]

How would one word a text / message to someone in this situation? (I don’t really handle calls well so I probably wouldn’t answer, it’d likely make the issues worse)

If I’m struggling with depression / anxiety / whatever else I’m struggling with at that time, how do I word that? Especially in those states of mind, I don’t really put things well. And ESPECIALLY if it’s planned months ago. I don’t have the biggest grasp on “social decorum”.

How do I do it without being called a faker or told to “stop making excuses” or “stop being lazy”?

“Hey, I’ve really been looking forward to hanging out with you, but I’m not feeling great today and can’t make it. When can we reschedule for?”

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Evil Eyes (2019)

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daily I.

Brown eyes are so iconic and beautiful

Green eyes are even more iconic and beautiful.

If i met a white person irl I’d beat the shit out of them and mug them just because of this post. Because of you. Maybe even kill them. Because of you. You had to say this and now some random cracker bitch is gonna die. Are you happy? Was it worth it?

certified iconic post

*sits on the bathroom counter trying to get my entire outfit in the pic*

I’m a non-binary, Black Juliet. I really appreciate being involved in programs that highlight Blackness and people of color.  INDYA MOORE for the 2020 Pirelli Calendar

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“… she returned to eating meat after learning that the soybean and corn monocultures that accounted for much of her vegan diet were wreaking havoc on the environment.“

“When we first opened, people were surprised at the prices,” he said. “But our costs are much higher than what a giant company pays. We are paying to have control over the quality of our animals, what they are being fed, how they are being treated, transported, slaughtered and cut up. Once people understood that, the business took off.”

“As soon as I started eating meat, my health improved,” she said. “My mental acuity stepped up, I lost weight, my acne cleared up, my hair got better. I felt like a fog lifted.”

“You can’t be healthy unless the animals you eat are healthy,”

“Rather than being passive and just not supporting an industry I don’t like, I’m taking an active approach by taking thousands of dollars out of it, “ he said. “When people come to me, they aren’t going to Costco for meat.”

“Referring to themselves as ethical butchers, they have opened shops that offer meat from animals bred on grassland and pasture, with animal well-being, environmental conservation and less wasteful whole-animal butchery as their primary goals.”

Instead of trying to poise this as “haha vegans look even y’all can’t do it” express it for what it truly is.

“It’s a sharp contrast to the industrial-scale factory farming that produces most of the nation’s meat, and that has come under investigation and criticism for its waste, overuse of antibiotics, and inhumane, hazardous conditions for the animals. The outcry has been so strong that some meat producers say they are changing their practices. But these newer butchers contend that the industry is proceeding too slowly, with a lack of transparency that doesn’t inspire trust.”

I think it’s also worth noting that this highlights the way that it’s not meat-eaters or vegans that are a problem. It’s the way that our food supply has been shaped by the forces of business.

Fixing it means not fighting about who’s identity is better, but fighting against the business practices that allow companies to torture animals and produce unethically grown and unsustainably harvested foods.

And as a reminder of the past, the US meat packing industry and food production industry have often tried to cut corners and serve filth in order to make a profit. That changed after the release of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle, which portrayed the conditions in the Chicago meat packing industry in such stark relief that it lead directly to the creation of the FDA and the wide scale adoption of food safety regulations.

He told the US that we might be getting the occasional human finger in our ground beef and it worked. We listened and forced the system to change. I think it’s time for another dose of that same medicine.

It is “Home”.

Emily Dickinson’s herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of science and poetry.

women of eden: nyobi and isis for flesh magazine mx oct. 2019

the moon shines for you …

Portraits of Jewish women in Cairo, Egypt. George Montbard, 1882.