staceythinx:

Jennifer’s McCurdy’s porcelain pottery looks almost as alive as its inspiration. 

McCurdy on her work:

Emotion fills me when I see perfect forms in nature, from the cracked conch shell on the beach revealing its perfect spiral, to the milkweed pod burst in the field, its brilliant airborne seeds streaming into the sunlight. The ordered symmetry and asymmetry of nature’s forms reveal the growth of life, the movement of life.

Living on Martha’s Vineyard, island time, especially in the winter, seems to conform to nature’s cycles. As a potter, I strive to make my work reflect the balance of life around me. It is important that the patterns I see around me are integrated into my forms.

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20 Things Never to Say to a Friend Who Confides in You That They've Been Sexually Assaulted

thisisrapeculture:

This list is by no means exhaustive. Unfortunately, many people will know or do know someone who’s a survivor of a sexual assault or rape. If you find yourself in the position of confidant, please …

As the article mentions, it’s from the author’s experience/POV so it is in reference to male-on-female assault, but the gist of the article is solid.

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jesuslovemusic:

kmelo410:

fuckcalmandtrainhard:

Watch this in case you feel like complaining about how hard your last training sesh was. 

I will tag this everything I can cause everyone who calls themselves a “fitblr” needs to see this for a reality check. 

❤

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I know some of us with disabilities have issues with the term “inspiration” as if some of the able-bodied population think that’s we’re there for. Or that it’s somehow special or jaw-dropping, or shocking that some of us can live independently, work, and generally lead lives that able-bodied people consider “normal” and therefore take for granted.

But this video TRULY IS moving. This guy is more physically independent, more social, has more mobility, and his quality of life has skyrocketed upward.

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thescienceofreality: alittlecoconuttart: [Article excerpt] New Study Shows Hillary Clinton’s Face Makes Women More Confident Tess VandenDolder Apr 25th at 1:07 pm  In the study individual men and women were asked to give a speech in front of a panel of six strangers. For some there was a picture of Bill Clinton on the back wall and for others there was a picture of Hillary. Overall the men spoke longer and were judged as better speakers than the women, except for the group of ladies who spoke while looking into Hillary’s baby blues. That group blew the men out of the water as far as the length of their speeches and overall confidence and success in conveying their ideas publicly. The conclusion researchers drew from this study was that when women are exposed to powerful female role models in leadership positions they gained instant boosts in confidence and the ability to achieve at high levels. ”Female political role models can inspire women and help them cope with stressful situations that they encounter in their careers, such as public speaking,” the authors of the study wrote. ”A lack of female powerful role models leads to a vicious circle, because if women fail to take leadership positions, they also fail to provide role models for junior women to follow.” “They go on to recommend that ‘active steps should be taken in order to increase the number of women in leadership positions, which would consequently increase their visibility and empower other women on their path to leadership.’ ” via POPSCI
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thescienceofreality:

alittlecoconuttart:

[Article excerpt]

New Study Shows Hillary Clinton’s Face Makes Women More Confident

 Apr 25th at 1:07 pm 

In the study individual men and women were asked to give a speech in front of a panel of six strangers. For some there was a picture of Bill Clinton on the back wall and for others there was a picture of Hillary. Overall the men spoke longer and were judged as better speakers than the women, except for the group of ladies who spoke while looking into Hillary’s baby blues. That group blew the men out of the water as far as the length of their speeches and overall confidence and success in conveying their ideas publicly.

The conclusion researchers drew from this study was that when women are exposed to powerful female role models in leadership positions they gained instant boosts in confidence and the ability to achieve at high levels. ”Female political role models can inspire women and help them cope with stressful situations that they encounter in their careers, such as public speaking,” the authors of the study wrote. ”A lack of female powerful role models leads to a vicious circle, because if women fail to take leadership positions, they also fail to provide role models for junior women to follow.”

“They go on to recommend that ‘active steps should be taken in order to increase the number of women in leadership positions, which would consequently increase their visibility and empower other women on their path to leadership.’ ” via POPSCI

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In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen Miller or Dr. Brian Miller, fictitious applicants for an academic tenure-track job. The CVs were identical, apart from the name. Yet strangely, the male Dr. Miller was perceived (by both male and female reviewers) to have better research, teaching, and service experience than the luckless female Dr. Miller. Overall, about three-quarters of the psychologists thought that Dr. Brian was hirable, while only just under half had the same confidence in Dr. Karen. The same researchers also sent out applications for the position of tenured professor, again identical but for the male and female name at the top. This time, the application was so strong that most of the raters thought that tenure was deserved, regardless of sex. However, the endorsement of Karen’s application was four times more likely to be accompanied by cautionary caveats scrawled in the margins of the questionnaire: such as, ‘I would need to see evidence that she had gotten these grants and publications on her own’ and ‘We would have to see her job talk.’

Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (via cockchomp)

THIS IS REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT AND INCREDIBLE 

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…the neat sorting-out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.
C.S. Lewis (via muralofsolitude)

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A child doesn’t know HOW to walk when she first begins to try. She just knows that she doesn’t want to crawl anymore. She sees others walking and thinks, if they can do that, I must be able to do that too. I crawled for a long time. And I’m here to tell you that when you decide, no matter what, that you aren’t going to crawl anymore, I promise you…you WILL learn to walk.
A Recovered Life (via a-recovered-life)

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khaetlyn: The fact that he addresses the girls in question as “Gamer Girls” but then proceeds to tell them how they aren’t actually gamers is strange. He acknowledges that the girls he’s addressing do indeed play games and engage in gaming culture is various ways (wearing shirts, discussing games) but asserts that these things, even when combined, aren’t enough to classify oneself as a capital-G Gamer. The questions beg to be asked: What does it take to be able to identify as a gamer? And why are people within the gaming community so concerned with policing the identities of their peers?
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khaetlyn:

The fact that he addresses the girls in question as “Gamer Girls” but then proceeds to tell them how they aren’t actually gamers is strange. He acknowledges that the girls he’s addressing do indeed play games and engage in gaming culture is various ways (wearing shirts, discussing games) but asserts that these things, even when combined, aren’t enough to classify oneself as a capital-G Gamer. The questions beg to be asked: What does it take to be able to identify as a gamer? And why are people within the gaming community so concerned with policing the identities of their peers?

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thesmithian:

…up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and poor public services took to the streets. Protesters in Rio de Janeiro burned cars and looted buildings as police attempted to disperse them with teargas and rubber bullets. Aerial images showed thousands of people attempting to storm the congress building in Brasilia. The rallies…are some of the biggest ever seen in the country…

more.

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megumiovvo:

chuck-charles:

i made a makeup tutorial for all my fellow feminists out there bye

jfc

watch it

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