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Somewhere, right now. I’m always thinking that everybody is  the hero of his/her own narrative AND a secondary character in someone else’s.. The idea that incredibly powerful and life changing stories are happening right now probably just a few moments away from where we are is always mind boggling to me. #pascalcampion

Tomboy-esque

Am I uglier with glasses, or am I uglier because I can actually see myself with glasses?

Every year you pass your birthday and know that you were born that day; But every year you pass your death day and have no clue..

The pickup line “did it hurt when you fell from Heaven” is actually informing somebody that you think they may be Satan.

Let people live. It’s literally Fabric.

No one deals with rejection more than Internet Explorer requesting to be your default browser..

There shouldn’t be a stigma about going to the movies alone. The activity where you can’t talk to someone should be the one you can do alone.

what in slow motion

“Language is just a combination of sounds. So something like a name or a pronoun is just a sound that you would like to hear.”        ~ Miles McKenna, 2k17

Thought this was so cleverly creative and amazing.

Amazing :00

Slower version of the video -> https://youtu.be/c8XBT0Mlrfs

my ass just got stuck in a kids rocket ride i guess i’m officially too big to have fun

Idk

Dying in one hit after just getting into lane

Merry Christmas to you all !  

Here are some tiny studies of my foggy neighborhood. 

Months After Pulse Shooting: 'There Is A Wound On The Entire Community'

On June 12, 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and injured dozens of others in what became the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history. The Pulse nightclub, a popular space for the LGBT community in Orlando, Fla., was holding a Latin Night, and the club was packed with patrons both gay and straight, young and not-so-young, from the U.S., Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and elsewhere. The massacre sent waves through the many intertwined communities in the city.

Over the last six months, these communities of Orlando — whether LGBT, Latino, Hispanic, religious, or more broadly — have worked in different ways to overcome the traumatic events of that day. Photographer Cassi Alexandra spoke to people across those communities that were touched by the tragedy, either through personal experience, loss of a loved one, or the impact on the city itself. These stories examine the recovery process this community continues to go through, including questioning the acceptance of violence as a country and discussing the damaging legacy of violent acts such as this.

Brandon Wolf grew up in a suburb of Portland, Ore., and has lived in Orlando since 2008. He went to Pulse that night with three friends — Eric Borrero, Christopher “Drew” Leinonen and Juan Guerrero. 

“We made a break for the fire exit and just ran through the smoke,” Brandon says. “We didn’t look back and kept running from the building.”

Emily Addison and her 2-year-old son, Diyari, lost Deonka “Dee Dee” Drayton in the Pulse massacre.

“I can’t even begin to tell you how hard I prayed,” Emily says. “I wanted her to be in the hospital so bad, I didn’t care what kind of predicament she was in, because I knew I was going to take care of her. … But it didn’t turn out that way.”

Shane Young is chairperson of the Youth Council at Zebra Coalition, an advocacy group for LGBT+ youth in Central Florida. He and his mother, Trish Glad, live in Saint Cloud, Fla., where Shane attended three high schools before dropping out to study for his GED because of what he described as “terrible bullying” from students and staff members because he is transgender.

“Worrying if my kid was going to be alive when I picked him up at the end of the school day was horrible, and it was all the time,” Trish says. “Just kids threatening to slit his throat, and the police won’t do anything unless there’s actual bodily harm.”

Blue is a well-known figure in the LGBT community of Orlando and owner of The Venue.

“You can talk about gun control and you can talk about raising people with love and you can talk about ways that you would’ve changed upbringing … the world is a crazy place,” she says. “If I sat here and thought about all the ways that we could’ve prevented that I would probably be sitting here and speaking for hours. The fact of the matter is we have to look at what we’ve gotten from it and move forward with that.”

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Photos and interviews by Cassi Alexandra

9-year-old Avery Jackson has made history as the first transgender person on the cover of National Geographic. 

She’s pictured above a quote that reads “The best thing about being a girl is, now I don’t have to pretend to be a boy.” You go, girl. (via Teen Vogue) 

True... Just true...

Why is the concept of tomboy becoming synonymous with trans? Like don’t get me wrong, there can be and there are tomboys in the LGBT+ community, but being tomboy doesn’t automatically make you part of it. All tomboy means is that you’re a girl who likes things usually associated with guys.

This concerns me because we’re starting to see people go “THEY MUST BE TRANS” if a girl likes anything that’s traditionally associated with boys. I feel like that’s really damaging because it actually REINFORCES gender roles, which is, ironically, what most of these people want to do away with. It sends the message that a girl can’t like guy things while still being seen as a girl. It forces people to be put into neat little boxes. Your gender is not defined by your interests, people.

 ***All of this in reverse, as well. If a guy likes anything girly, some people are quick to call him trans***

Remember: breaking out of stereotypes does not make you trans. GENDER DYSPHORIA MAKES YOU TRANS. 

Gorgeous underwater photographs by  Benjamin Von Wong