We're all stories in the end

rebelwhodoesntknow:

You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, now in quarantine

oscarthefrump:

#every time I see this picture I am briefly overwhelmed#this piece of art outlived its context and milieu#but. but. in reality there is no such thing#because art is made anew with every glance. it comes to life. awakens laughing#and time compresses. softens. the past is not so much a mystery if we remember we weren’t the first to dance.#this is what art is for#this is what it can do#it doesn’t only speak to us of our own humanity#it reminds us that humanity is shared. this girl isn’t dancing in a mirror. she is dancing with a friend.#paintings don’t simply show us the world. they help teach us how to live in it. (via @robotmango)

rad-coven-deactivated20200526:

rue-bennett:

say it louder

A C.E.O sitting in an air conditioned office drinking their 5th latte of the day is not working harder nor do they have more skills than the construction worker working in 90F /32C weather, or the home nurse aid tending to sick/eldery people.

The millionaire heir/heiress who used their family fortune to become a billionaire *cough Kylie Jenner cough Ivanka Trump cough Paris Hilton* are not smarter or harder working than a retail worker.

These millionaire hotel owners do not work harder or have more skills than their hotel employees.

elisabetholsens:

my only four moods

madamedevideoland:

Friendly reminder that women are forbidden to read in some parts of the world right now. Friendly reminder that oppressive regimes are telling women what to wear, where to go, what they can and can’t do, right now. Friendly reminder there are plenty of men in government who view women only as incubators and nothing more right now. Friendly reminder that what happened to Ofglen at the end of episode 3 is happening to girls all over the world right now. 

Friendly reminder that The Handmaid’s Tale is already real, in various forms, for many women. No red dress and white bonnet necessary. 

mikanis:

autistics-speak:

hollowedskin:

curlyspoonie:

penbrydd:

Your periodic reminder that in people who have been subject to threats and punishment for having emotional responses or ‘inappropriate’ facial expressions, panic attacks look different.

They may look like the person has become calmer and less involved, dismissive, even. Some people become intensely subservient and silent. Some become catatonic.

Panic doesn’t always involve screaming, crying, and obvious signs of distress. It involves an extreme form of the person’s fear response – which can be altered by circumstance, ability, and what they’ve learnt to fear.

Which is to say, it’s not your place to decide someone isn’t having a panic attack, when they’ve told you that’s what’s happening.

Oh, so that time I just couldn’t move or talk or anything and was basically catatonic was a really thing? Why am I constantly finding out that experiences I’ve had are not just me???

See also: being totally fine until reaching somewhere safe like your car, your house or your room.

That also includes seeming totally fine to YOURSELF. The amount of times i’ve been like, oh wow that went better than expected then closed the door and lost my fucking shit while going “but i was fine????”…

it’s a safety thing. you weren’t safe in public to be seen with emotions you could be punished for, and now you are.

this includes panic attacks and meltdowns caused by sensory overload, etc. A LOT of people have the hard-won ability to delay or mask a panic attack or meltdown, but the physiological stress and distress is still very real even if it’s not immediate or vocal.

My PTSD episodes are an immediate shift into a contained/subservient body language, and dissociative mindset. If it’s bad enough, i will not remember it. I lose time, go on auto pilot, and it’s hard to undo the slip once I’m there.