Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m lacking scanner access at the minute so I had to take these photos on my phone
I was reading hyperbole and a half’s blog entry explaining their experience of depression and decided to make another sketchy comic based on my experiences with anxiety, which is another mental illness I think people tend to misunderstand quite frequently
Hopefully this will be of use to some people - whether they suffer from anxiety themselves or if they just want to know more about it
I will always find time
The Caroline Effect
Strings of converstation, daydreams and other useless things
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We need to reclaim the word ‘feminism’. We need the word ‘feminism’ back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only 29% of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42% of British women - I used to think, What do you think feminism IS, ladies? What part of ‘liberation for women’ is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? ‘Vogue’ by Madonna? Jeans? Did all that good shit GET ON YOUR NERVES? Or were you just DRUNK AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY?
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Why I love my Feminist Theory Class
A quote from tonight’s reading:
“The pictures of sucking and fucking that comprise the bulk of pornography may be unnerving to those who are not familiar with them.”
—Rubin, 1984, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of Sexuality”
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*Squeal*
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Sheesh
The last one..
This is fucking sick.
oh my god
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Ridiculous
Here is a quote from an old bible study leader (a woman in her late 20s/early 30s) who shared a link on her facebook that promoted avoiding abortions of kids with down syndrome.
“…So, please just pass along (and this is for anyone who ever reads this), if you every know of anyone who’d prefer to abort their baby because of fear of raising them for any reason, if they can carry their child, we will adopt him or her.”
Oh, please tell me MORE about how you love all of God’s little children and each one deserves a place in heaven. Because I would just love to get attached to a zygote/fetus/baby and then throw it in your arms. Abortion is abortion, so a zygote dies, deal with it. People die everyday, life is unfair, welcome to the real world.
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Some people spend their entire lives indefinitely preparing to live.
—Abraham Maslow
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Sometimes I feel like being alive is slowly killing me…It takes so much energy to exist. So much.
I will always try and own up to the fact that I can be a bitch. This just takes the cake so I had to reblog :)
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I do believe the person responsible for The Onion tweet in question would have made that tasteless joke about any nine-year old actress. This tweet was ill advised and repulsive, not just because the actress was nine, or because MacFarlane had, earlier in the evening, made a joke about her being too old for George Clooney in sixteen years, but primarily because young black women, black girls, are regularly hypersexualized. There was this additional, fraught context that someone didn’t take into consideration and probably couldn’t take into consideration because they are oblivious. They are oblivious to the context because they’ve never been around people who are familiar with it, because they’ve never been held accountable.
People often fail to understand the importance of diversity. They assume it’s all about quotas and political correction but it is about so much more. Diversity (and we’re talking race, class, gender, sexuality, political affiliation, religion, all of it) is about putting multiple points of view into a conversation. It’s about ensuring that no one is operating in the kind of cultural vacuum where they don’t stop to consider context. It’s why certain people and shows and publications keep running into the same brick wall of public outcry about diversity—because these people consistently demonstrate a callous and willful ignorance of context. They see these lines that shouldn’t be crossed and cross them anyway because they are blissfully unencumbered by context.
I’m not outraged about this one tweet. I’m outraged about the cultural disease that spawned this tweet, the one where certain people are devalued and denigrated for sport and then told to laugh it off because hey, you know, it’s humor.
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