@white Feminists: Stop Telling Brown Girls They’re “harming” Feminism When They Shave Their Body

If you're in Texas and you're trying to stay warm during the power outages, here's some tips from an Illinoisan currently living in Texas. Obviously battery powered heaters or heated blankets can be great, as is a fire in a fireplace. But if those aren't options for you, try:

1. You can use tape around the edges of doors and windows to prevent drafts, or use towels or blankets to stuff around it. We currently have blankets taped up covering our doors and towels taped over most of our windows. Avoid going into rooms with an outside wall or multiple/large windows, they're going to be colder.

2. If you're getting power back every now and then, fill a sock about 2/3 full with rice, lentils, or dry beans, stick it in the microwave for about 30 seconds at a time, checking to see when it's nice and warm. Then put it at your feet under a blanket.

3. If you have a gas stove, boil a pot of water. You can make tea or soup with it, but even just boiling water will help warm and humidify the home a little. Good for avoiding nosebleeds.

4. Set all your faucets to drip. Moving water in the pipes keeps them from freezing, which is good because you don't want them to burst.

5. Got a significant other? Kids? Pets? Cuddle them. Never underestimate how much it helps to have another warm body sharing a blanket with you.

6. Do NOT drink alcohol. Yes, it makes you feel nice and warm. It also causes you to LOSE body heat.

7. Move around! Even just bicycling your legs will get your blood flowing, which will help warm you up. Then you can go right back to bundling up.

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

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Since trans day of visibility is tomorrow:

Trans day of visibility isn’t just for white gender-confirming passing binary trans people.

It includes every trans person. Trans POC. GNC trans people. Non-binary people. Trans people who don’t pass. Trans people who dont want to medically transition. Trans people who haven’t medically transitioned. Trans people who are still in the closet.

All trans people.

I have seen harmful beliefs, especially in the Transmasc community, that you have to medically transition, that you have to pass, you have to conform to gender roles, etc. to be ‘actually trans’.

And that’s not true.

Transmascs don’t have to be manly buff men they can be whatever they want to be. If a Transmasc wants to wear a dress. They can wear a dress. Transmascs don’t have to use he/him they can use whatever they want. If they wanna use she/her they can use she/her.

Transfems don’t have to be feminine dainty women they can be whatever they want to be. If a Transfem wants to wear masculine stuff. They can wear masculine stuff. Transfems don’t have to use she/her they can use what ever they want to use. If they wanna use he/him they can use he/him.

Non-binary people don’t have to be androgynous they can be what ever they want to be. Non-binary don’t have to use they/them they can use whatever they want to use.

Stop trying to control others gender and gender presentation. Because someone’s relationship to their gender is NONE of your business. Stop excluding trans people because they don’t fit your idea of ‘ideal trans’. All trans people are valid and deserve respect.

The person I reblogged this from is someone I enjoy seeing on my dashboard.

All the time!!!^^

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Let’s talk about the fabulous aromantics out there

feel like the world would be a better place if everyone had access to make pottery and ceramics for free