January 2012
December 2011
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“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via reading-as-breathing)
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genderfork:
I wish that asking all people their preferred gender pronoun were as natural and common as asking them their name.
Respecting Kids' Bodily Boundaries and Teaching... →
thefremen:
Most of us can remember being pressured to just “suffer through it” from our own childhoods. Who doesn’t recall being forced to kiss “Great Aunt Edna” as a kid, or getting scratched by Uncle Bob’s beard as he leaned in for a squeeze? Or, being told to just ignore the teasing and roughhousing of our cousins?
As a mother, I can relate to the embarrassment that a parent might feel when...
