Thoughts and inspirations of a neurotic sociology undergrad student. INFJ. I'm a bit obsessive, that you should know.
I will have a habit of being quite emotionally revealing here. I suffer from depression and GAD, so there will be posts correlating to that. I have low self-esteem, and have to deal with that consistently.
I don't mind good conversations, so if you're up for one, just message me whenever and I'll get back to you when I can. We can trade contact details in the inbox if you're interested. I like making friends who have similar interests as mine.
I'm just trying to find my place in the world.
I'm trying to explore, develop who I am as a person, for the better and the positive. I would like to be able to use my life, my experiences, my education and skills to help others. I've got things to contribute and would like the opportunity to do so.
If you don't mind exploring my stream of consciousness, which can be mercurial and random...keep reading.
Interests: politics. literature. design. social justice. philosophy. films. photography.
poetry. imagination. art. ideas. possibilities. theories. creativity. music.
current events. existentialism. human rights. technology. social sciences. Fincherclub of course.
“If you don’t define yourself for yourself, then you will be crushed into others’ fantasies of you and eaten alive.”
— Audre Lorde
"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another—physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."
— Toni Morrison
"The world is an iron cage of rational systems from which there is no escape."
— Max Weber
“When we critically examine the traditional role of the university in the pursuit of truth and sharing of knowledge and information, it becomes painfully clear that biases that uphold and maintain white supremacy, imperialism, sexism, racism, etc. have distorted education so that it has not been about the practice of freedom.”
— bell hooks
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Science - Critical Theory: Excerpts from C. Wright Mills – The Power Elite
The powers of ordinary men are circumscribed by the everyday worlds in which they live, yet even in these rounds of job, family, and neighborhood they often seem driven by forces they can neither understand nor govern. ‘Great changes’ are beyond their control, but affect their conduct and…
Capitalism doesn’t inspire creativity, it stifles it. There are millions of geniuses that might be doing something brilliant, but instead are putting stickers on packets of biscuits they can barely afford for 12 hours a day so some lazy prick can play golf every Sunday with all the other impotent do nothing pricks.
Ourben: (via theorthodoxheretic)
One interesting thing about the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression, is that they actively employed artists, to be artists. Not to work in factories or farms, but to be artists.
(via brosephstalin)
Fuji (by femtowork)
I don’t know how much movies should entertain. I’m always interested in movies that scar
David Fincher (via candicelee)
(Source: daisybuchanans)
Why am I compelled to write?… Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger… To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispel the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit… Finally I write because I’m scared of writing, but I’m more scared of not writing.
Gloria Anzaldúa (via youormeamplified)
Agnes Cecile
female casting of Thor and Loki.
(Source: v1v13nn3)
Idris Elba reveals the story behind the name of his production company ‘Green Door’ [x]
(Source: oh-whiskers)
If you say that a woman wearing revealing clothes deserves to be sexually assaulted, you are saying that a woman’s body is inherently deserving of rape. That women are inherently deserving of rape. That women have to make sure their body is hidden in order not to deserve to be raped. That is misogyny in its purest form.
(Source: introspectivestardust)
Study of Arbore Virgin
Arbore women are well know for their long headdresses. The girls shave their heads to indicate virginity, and only start growing hair after marriage.
Arbore tribe, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia
© JOEY LI’m a little disturbed the title of this photograph. I don’t like that he went there and went around photographing young virgins. I mean, would it be OK for me to head on over to Denmark and start photographing young virgins there too? Let’s not ditch our ethical standards just because we find ourselves ‘fascinated’ by a culture that’s not our own.
She is so beautiful. What is her name, how old is she, what are her dreams, what are her hopes and her fears? I wish you had asked her those things so you can tell us about her. You took away her name and her identity. Who is she? The title of this photo is extremely insulting.
perfect flotus is perfect.
Soviet Luna 24 probe found water on the Moon in 1976, researcher says
Was Moon water actually found two decades before the Clementine probe?
When we make fun of an attitude, the truth is often in this attitude, not in the distance we take towards it: I make fun of it to conceal from myself the fact that it actually determines my activity. Someone who mock his own love for a woman, say, often thereby expresses his uneasiness at being so deeply attached to her.
Slavoj Zizek - Less than Nothing (via stickyembraces)
8 year old girl of color gets a humiliating award from her teacher.
This is how children of color are treated in schools, people, especially brown children. How will this child trust teachers actually care about her again? Huh? Tell me that.
The teacher tried to brush this shit off and say it was “just a joke.” Yeah… because humiliating a child in a classroom full of her peers is just fucking hilarious. I’m willing to put money on the fact that she’d never do this shit to a nice little white child.
Motherfucking Arizona.
i can’t believe there are people out there who think this was because she’s black
IT’S BECAUSE SHE NEVER DOES HER HOMEWORK
and mother, tell your child to finish her homework before you defend her against getting shitted on for not doing so.
- The child wasn’t black.
- Even if she didn’t do her homework, THAT IS NO REASON FOR A TEACHER TO PUBLICLY HUMILIATE THEIR STUDENT!
- Please do everyone on the internet a favor and deposit yourself into the shame cube
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heheh. Shame cube.
