“Immigrant Song” by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross feat. Karen O
I can’t speak about what’s wrong anymore because I don’t even know.
I want so many things and don’t know how to get them.
I’m afraid of love now.
I’m afraid of dying horribly.
I’m sad that I’m not better at what I do.
I feel like someone carved out my guts and I’m trying to heal on my own. But I don’t even know what cut me. Or how.
I want to act Shakeapeare and fall in love without a care and to have friends and parties and feel glamorous whether I’m rich or poor.
And I want to lay down and die.
1. Get naked and take a good long look at your body. Trace your stretch marks, feel your hip bones poking out, place your hand over your tummy and take a fistful of yourself in. Appreciate your scars and pimples, your uneven,large,or nonexistent breasts. Take pride in your un/shaven, un/cut, fantastically odd private bits. Hold up a mirror to yourself and study your body. Love it.
2. Be Ugly, reclaim words that are used to put you down and shut you up and scream right back at these fascist beauty standard reinforcing scumbags. Give them the finger and tell them to kiss your fat/skinny/somewhere in between ass ‘cause you ain’t got time to waste with their body hating bullshit. and remember, you don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Validate yourself by accepting yourself.
3. Wear clothes that don’t fit, that are too big or too small and show all your “problem areas” that cosmo insists you hide and walk down the street like the fucking fabulous queen you are. Sashay the hate away.
4. Do what YOU want with YOUR body. Shave or don’t, wear makeup or don’t, whatever choice you make is yours to make, and anyone who shames you for your decision can keep it moving. This also means respecting the choices of others, even if they differ from your own.
5. Surround yourself with loving and supportive people. Rid of the toxic bullshit in your life if possible, and immerse yourself in a community that embraces body positivity and diversity.
(via fuckyeahpeoplewithstretchmarks)
I gave my first ever commencement speech to the graduating class of 2012 at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
I think I told them everything important that I knew about going out into the world and being an artist, so I may never need to give another one.
This is so valuable. If you are an artist of any kind, watch and take it in.
President Barack Obama
Freedom of Religion = Freedom from Religion. No debate necessary.
(via destroythegop)
