▲15 | reblogThis is Akureyri, considered the “Capital of the Northern Iceland”.
Iceland is my DREAM destination, I would love to see the landscape, the small villages. I don’t have a particular part of the country that I want to see first, but something about the “last” city in Iceland grabs my attention.
Real women have curves” was a marketing slogan thought up to sell people overpriced, ill-fitting pants. It does NOT promote body positivity – it only perpetuates body policing by turning the tables on people who don’t fit into yet another arbitrary ideal.
The job is to BUST THE FUCKING PARADIGM APART, not shift it a little bit toward the fat side. The job is to remind people, bodies are not public property and your opinion about an individual’s body is only an opinion, not a valid judgment of their worth as a human being. The JOB is to destroy systemic oppression of nonconforming, rebellious bodies no matter what those bodies look like. (via blck-grrl)
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The job is to BUST THE FUCKING PARADIGM APART, not shift it a little bit toward the fat side. The job is to remind people, bodies are not public property and your opinion about an individual’s body is only an opinion, not a valid judgment of their worth as a human being. The JOB is to destroy systemic oppression of nonconforming, rebellious bodies no matter what those bodies look like. (via blck-grrl)
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via creatingaquietmind)
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Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819. Happy birthday, you poet of the people! Explore the NYPL’s collection of Whitman Manuscripts here: http://ow.ly/bgLIN
Happy Birthday to the great American poet.
