is cutoff shorts (I recently cut off a whole bunch from great-fitting jeans that were holey-kneed or slightly too short at the ankles) and florals on florals and white dresses and intense, unmanageable hot-weather goth yearnings.

I’m following goth fashion more than usual lately and I think I’ve decided that I need a corset, although where the hell I would wear it remains to be seen.

Sometime this week, I’m giving myself the sartorial challenge of doing goth vibes in a little white dress. Will attempt to make pics happen if I succeed.

sylviawrath:

Edith Head meets Pretty in Pink, the entire essence of Goonies & whatever the clothing equivalent of an 80s Rube Goldberg machine is, classic silhouettes embellished with vests and brooches (aka function first, fill in the details later), draping over structure, Little Edie Beale always seeking out the most effective accessorizing potential circa Grey Gardens, Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall in 3 Women, equal part whimsy and “chic” with a sense of humour about the whole thing, the first act of Mystery Train (teenage punks from Japan visiting Memphis in the 1989s), complexgeometries, clothes that can disguise coffee stains, eyebrows you can see from space, the unholy love child of Patti Smith in the 70s and Moschino in the 80s dipped entirely in lavender (i’m feeling lavender), fancy underwear and not wearing a bra, lots of stripes and just the right amount of glitter, putting all the scarves I inherited from my grandmother to use, stuff that probably isn’t practical to wear in the summer,

Is it bad that since starting a new job my first thought was “soon I can afford to buy more clothes!”  G., are you reading this?  Let’s go to the salvation army!

What’s a good program to use when making moodboards?

karnythia:

thestoutorialist:

ethiopianbutamerican:

Forty-six million white  adults today can trace the origins of their family wealth to the Homestead Act of 1862. This bill gave away valuable acres of land for free to white families, but expressly precluded participation by Blacks.

The deed to the house my father grew up in explicitly said the home could not be sold to “negroes.”  Given that neither grand parents were light enough to pass, I wonder how they managed that.  I can’t get an answer from my family and I’m not sure if that’s because no one knows, or because they don’t want me to know (because it was awful)

It was probably willed to someone. The land our family farm is on wasn’t actually sold to my great grandfather or his siblings. It was part of their owner/father’s will left to them along with their freedom.

(via cabell)

cabell:

ethiopianbutamerican:

Forty-six million white  adults today can trace the origins of their family wealth to the Homestead Act of 1862. This bill gave away valuable acres of land for free to white families, but expressly precluded participation by Blacks.

I don’t know the exact numbers, but ~90 years later, low-rate government mortgages were basically the same deal.  Black Americans were shut out of the post-WWII housing market, a major contributor to the continuing wealth gap between Black and White Americans today.

vikkiisagenderneutralname:

why can’t it just be like

a party?

just like, send people invitations

“you are cordially invited to vikki’s coming out party
because zie is queer and now you know
please RSVP unless you’re going to be a douchebag about it” 

if they’re cool with it, they’ll come to the party

and bring gifts idk

I really have always felt we should resurrect the Coming Out Party for the modern sense of the word.

strawberrypookmoo:

respectissexy:

strawberrypookmoo:

respectissexy:

strawberrypookmoo:

respectissexy:

strawberrypookmoo:

respectissexy:

strawberrypookmoo:

yeeeeaaah 

like maybe “cispassing queerperson” I’d been thinking about

but that doesn’t make it clear immediately which one I pass for

personally I’m okay with calling myself a woman in regards to talking about difficulties encountered due to misogyny because the reason I encounter them is because I’m read as a woman

but I always feel weird thinking that maybe it’s not my place to call myself that

I mean, it’s your place to call yourself whatever is most convenient at any given time. But I know that’s easy to say as a cis woman who is never going to confuse the Identity Police.

I guess you could say “cispassing CAFAB (or FAAB, whichever you prefer) queerperson”?

bahahaha like I will ever remember that

I don’t even know what CAFAB stands for XD

maybe I’ll just continue along with my old ways as long as it doesn’t offend anyone

Hahaha, it is true, there is SO MUCH jargon.

CAFAB = Coercively Assigned Female At Birth, whereas FAAB is the less accusatory Female Assigned At Birth, both indicating “When I was born, a doctor took a brief, cursory look at my junk and decided I was a lady.”

hah I totally like CAFAB better now

oh nooooo now this is all starting more stuff in my head

(like “ahhh I like my name but it is sooooooo gendered so maybe I would like a different one but my mom gave me this name so I want to keep it and would feel weird if I changed it but IT IS SO GENDERED”)

Haha, aww! I’d suggest coming up with an optional shortening or something, but I already have a bff named Cori, so that could make my life marginally harder xD jokes aside, it’s all worth thinking about! The cool thing about being our age is we can try on a ton of things to see what works, with less than typical levels of disruption.

yeah I’ve never really been hugely into shortenings of my name though. they’re all so much less beautiful and melodic than my full name

I feel like even if I started using a different name I would just start aching for my old one because I’m so attached to it though. 

grrr why does a have to be the go-to ending for women’s names :( I wish a-endings were gender neutral

the only other name I think is really beautiful is benjamin but I don’t know how I feel about going by a truly male name plus everyone would shorten it to ben which is so whatever

plus I’ll probably never get over the hang up of “but my mooooom gave me this name”

at one point I was thinking maybe I could go by a different name to strangers?? or people who aren’t my family?? but that would be complicated too ._.

Yeah, all of that sounds way more painful and annoying by just using your birth name. No reason to give up something you love. If you felt REALLY strongly about balancing it out it seems like it’d be less painful to switch to a neutral pronoun or slide more masculine in your appearance, but it seems like it doesn’t bother you all that much.

it *does* bother me, but it bothers me more that my name is so gendered than that it is the name I have. does that make sense? I’ll always treasure my name but I just wish it didn’t scream “THIS PERSON IS A GIRL”

at least I have the perk of it being an uncommon name, so people have less… preconceived notions about a “cordelia” 

It does make sense. And it is nice that it’s so uncommon :-)

strawberrypookmoo:

respectissexy:

strawberrypookmoo:

respectissexy:

strawberrypookmoo:

respectissexy:

strawberrypookmoo:

yeeeeaaah 

like maybe “cispassing queerperson” I’d been thinking about

but that doesn’t make it clear immediately which one I pass for

personally I’m okay with calling myself a woman in regards to talking about difficulties encountered due to misogyny because the reason I encounter them is because I’m read as a woman

but I always feel weird thinking that maybe it’s not my place to call myself that

I mean, it’s your place to call yourself whatever is most convenient at any given time. But I know that’s easy to say as a cis woman who is never going to confuse the Identity Police.

I guess you could say “cispassing CAFAB (or FAAB, whichever you prefer) queerperson”?

bahahaha like I will ever remember that

I don’t even know what CAFAB stands for XD

maybe I’ll just continue along with my old ways as long as it doesn’t offend anyone

Hahaha, it is true, there is SO MUCH jargon.

CAFAB = Coercively Assigned Female At Birth, whereas FAAB is the less accusatory Female Assigned At Birth, both indicating “When I was born, a doctor took a brief, cursory look at my junk and decided I was a lady.”

hah I totally like CAFAB better now

oh nooooo now this is all starting more stuff in my head

(like “ahhh I like my name but it is sooooooo gendered so maybe I would like a different one but my mom gave me this name so I want to keep it and would feel weird if I changed it but IT IS SO GENDERED”)

Haha, aww! I’d suggest coming up with an optional shortening or something, but I already have a bff named Cori, so that could make my life marginally harder xD jokes aside, it’s all worth thinking about! The cool thing about being our age is we can try on a ton of things to see what works, with less than typical levels of disruption.

yeah I’ve never really been hugely into shortenings of my name though. they’re all so much less beautiful and melodic than my full name

I feel like even if I started using a different name I would just start aching for my old one because I’m so attached to it though. 

grrr why does a have to be the go-to ending for women’s names :( I wish a-endings were gender neutral

the only other name I think is really beautiful is benjamin but I don’t know how I feel about going by a truly male name plus everyone would shorten it to ben which is so whatever

plus I’ll probably never get over the hang up of “but my mooooom gave me this name”

at one point I was thinking maybe I could go by a different name to strangers?? or people who aren’t my family?? but that would be complicated too ._.

Yeah, all of that sounds way more painful and annoying by just using your birth name. No reason to give up something you love. If you felt REALLY strongly about balancing it out it seems like it’d be less painful to switch to a neutral pronoun or slide more masculine in your appearance, but it seems like it doesn’t bother you all that much.