PULCHRITUDINOUS

postplus-protest:

postplus-protest:

Every single person who reads this, I want you to create art. Write, draw, knit, sew, build, sing, compose, etc. I don’t care about your skill level, I don’t care if you think you can. I want you to create. Do it well or do it badly, just do it.

Write a sentence. Outline a story. Make a doodle. Strum a chord.

Then do it again.

Because art is resistance, art is the weapon, art is love, art is life, art is god like creation. Art is an act of love.

Make your art and never let them stop you.

Every once in awhile, I’ll log back in. I’ll glance at my notifications and I see the response this post gets. I see it and I love it. Reblogs with added tags that have such hope in the words. You are the reason I made this post. Sometimes I’ll even glance at the things you make and I’m so proud. You are creating, surviving, and giving the world some extra hope or happiness.

Keep making your art and never let them stop you.

(via flower-hermit)

rapeculturerealities:

Birth control access can be limited in places with Catholic health systems : Shots - Health News : NPR

Catholic health care's wide reach can make it hard to get birth control in many places

Religious rules guiding Catholic health care systems often mean their doctors can't prescribe contraceptives or perform tubal ligations. And

NPR.org

Last week, students returning to campus at Oberlin College in Ohio got a shock: A local news outlet reported that the campus’ student health services would severely limit who could get contraception prescriptions. They would only be given to treat health problems — not for the purpose of preventing pregnancy — and emergency contraception would only be available to victims of sexual assault.

It turned out the college had outsourced its student health services to a Catholic health agency – and like other Catholic health institutions, it follows religious directives that prohibit contraception to prevent pregnancy. They also prohibit gender-affirming care.

“I would characterize the student’s reaction as outrage,” says Remsen Welsh, a fourth-year Oberlin student and co-director of the student-run Sexual Information Center on campus. “A lot of people in my circles were sending [the news story] around like, what is happening?”

Although the college quickly came up with a new plan to offer reproductive health services to students on campus, the incident at Oberlin shows the wide reach of Catholic health care in the U.S., and how the rules these institutions follow can limit access to contraception.

failhag:

you need to be earnest. you need to tell people that you love them. you need to speak on how you’re feeling honestly. you need to be sentimental. you need to stop letting the fear of other people laughing at you have so much control over how you express yourself. you need to get over yourself. you need to be embarrassing but true.

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ripeteeth:

rosellacwrites:

ripeteeth:

ripeteeth:

One of my favorite things is taking someone to the Great Lakes for the first time - or describing how you can fly over them and see only hundreds of miles of glittering blue water and no coasts at all; how they have their own Coast Guard (the only lakes to do so); that the Earth’s rotation steers their currents; that they’re studied using ocean models; that they have wrecked more than 6000 ships - and watch them realize that the word “lake” is misleading and that they had no idea of the size and majesty of them at all.

Some fun facts about her majesty, Lake Superior:

• It has a surface area of 31,700 sq. miles, roughly the size of South Carolina or Austria.
• It’s incredibly deep and has enough water to cover all of North and South America to a depth of 12 inches.
• Waves over 30 feet have been recorded.
• Its deepest point is 1,333 feet, which is the third lowest point in North America
• Its average temperature is around 36 degrees Fahrenheit (2 Celsius), which inhibits bacterial growth in bodies, diminishing bloating and gas, and frequently shipwreck and drowning victims to sink to the bottom and never be recovered.

If you have not seen the Great Lakes you have no idea. As a kid, the first time I saw what most people call a “lake” I was like “but… I can see the other side!”

They are so big they make their own weather patterns. You’ve seen all those news stories about Buffalo getting some ungodly amount of snow? Lake effect.

I don’t miss much about where I grew up. But I do miss the lakes.

Originally posted by iokigai

All the love on this post for the Great Lakes and Michigan has absolutely got me tangled up in delight.

skelkankaos:

Okay. Reblog this and tag with a numerical response for how many of these artists you listen to. It’s stereotypical “tumblr user” music.

1. Lemon Demon
2. Tally Hall
3. Death Grips
4. Jack Stauber
5. Mr Bungle
6. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
7. Devo
8. Oingo Boingo
9. Aquabats
10. Weird Al
11. My Chemical Romance
12. 100gecs
13. Talking Heads
14. They Might Be Giants
15. Mitski
16. Girl In Red
    

(via princessprouvaire)

spindrifters:

hang on I’m trying to see something

don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name

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yellenabelova:

Behind the Animation for Nimona | Netflix

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xiaq:

My Mawmaw who recently passed made embroidery art to decorate her home. I was able to inherit several of these pieces (all of them older than I am!) and I hung them today. I love them. And I love having little bits of childhood memories at the farm crop up when I walk past them.