Cora Harrington
@lingerie_addict
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Formerly The Lingerie Addict. Seen in NYT, WSJ, WWD, etc. Author In Intimate Detail. MA student Fashion & Textile Studies. Not straight. I block annoying people
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“I must be a mermaid...I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” ~ Anais Nin
Robe by
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Someone said, “What are we supposed to do…recycle the same outfit for years?”
And that’s the truly the fundamental disconnect because I’m like, “Yes! You should wear stuff for years!”
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People are being extremely weird to that lady who found the blanket she crocheted for a friend in a thrift shop. She’s allowed to be sad about it.
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Police departments get hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but children have “school lunch debt.”
Make it make sense.
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“Statues like this typically depict a married couple. It was unusual for two women to be sculpted side by side. The relationship between these two women is not specified.”
Obviously, they were roommates.
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Currently sitting on a flight. The woman across the aisle from me is wrangling a toddler + a child who is maybe 5 yrs old. The toddler is crying and the child is throwing a tantrum. The husband? Sitting in the row in front of them wearing noise canceling headphones. A useless man
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What Margot Robbie *should* wear to the Barbie premiere
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Nice is not the same as kind.
Nice is not the same as ethical.
Nice is not the same as moral.
The older I get, the less interested I am in “nice.”
Nice is the gift wrap; it says nothing about what’s inside.
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Ever since I was told these good-old-days, Western fetishization Twitters with marble profile photos were fashy accounts meant to onboard people into white supremacy through “aesthetics,” I haven’t been able to unsee it.
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My husband went to the gym at 5:30, then we met up at 7, got coffee together and walked to the farmer’s market for fresh cherries. It’s really nice being married to someone you enjoy.
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Never going to be over a perfect match illusion tulle
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Sometimes I just think about how there’s absolutely no silver lining to Shein. The clothes are full of lead. The clothes are made in exploitative conditions. The clothes are contributing to pollution and global warming. The clothing designs are stolen. And the clothes fall apart.
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Random Person: Lol...why don’t you have kids? Don’t you want them? 🤪
Me: I’m infertile.
Them: *stare*
Me: *stare back*
Them: Well, I didn’t expect all that.
Me: And now you know not to ask.
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Marie Antoinette decided to wear lingerie as outerwear which increased demand for cotton which made it the primary crop of the South which instigated a dramatic rise in American slavery.
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This is a Renaissance painting
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Absolutely fascinated by how VS has gone back to doing the thing everyone complained about and now people are loving them for it. The anterograde amnesia of the internet.
exclusive first look at victoria’s secret comeback ‘icon’ collection featuring the og vsfs angels — gisele bündchen, adriana lima, naomi campbell and candice swanepoel ☆
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I just saw a commercial that was like, “Do your clothes still smell bad when they come out of the dryer? Add our scent beads!”
If your clothes smell bad when they come out of the dryer, the solution isn’t to cover that smell up with fragrance. It’s to adjust the way you wash.
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When visiting someone’s home, never open a closed door.
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Your conflict-avoidant friends will also be the ones most likely to abandon you when you need them.
Whats your opinion about Adulthood that will have you like this?
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I’m in a FB group for the emergency identification of plants and mushrooms in case of ingestion/poisoning, and it’s one of the most fascinating places. There’s an international team of botanists & experts on call 24/7. And you can’t comment in the group unless you’re one of them.
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I really need white people to understand that by the time a Black person speaks up and speaks out about racism, things have gotten really really bad. Intolerably bad. Unconscionably bad. Because if we spoke up about every little, small thing, we would do literally nothing else.
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One of the most important lessons I learned in adulthood is that once someone decides to dislike you, for whatever reason, everything you do after that point - no matter now inoccuous - will be filtered through the lens of reinforcing why they don’t like you.
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I remember when it came out that Cheddar Man (Britain’s oldest human skeleton) had dark skin + blue eyes. White people were ready to riot. They’ve since discovered other European skeletons with the same combo. Maybe it’s time to rework those models of Stone Age humans in museums?
A nearly 6,000 year old piece of chewing gum, found in Scandinavia, perfectly preserved the DNA of its chewer. She was a young, hunter-gatherer girl, with dark skin, brown hair & blue eyes, who had recently eaten a meal of hazelnuts & duck. Archaeology is amazing.
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The difference in quality btwn the clothes I bought a decade ago and the clothes I’m buying now is unbelievable. I have stuff - not expensive stuff, just things like leggings - I bought 12 years ago and still looks new. Then I have stuff I bought 2 years ago that’s falling apart.
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Honestly, the crux of the fast fashion conversation, for most consumers, is that they think it’s beneath them to have one winter coat they wear for five years or one dress they’ve worn so often, people recognize it. The underpinnings are rich people cosplay.
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Honestly, the fact that I say things like “wear your clothes as long as possible, wash them properly, don’t overuse laundry detergent, don’t use dryer sheets, don’t do hauls,” and ppl will still scream shows the real issue - for a lot of folks - is not wanting to change ANYTHING.
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Old money has dress codes that normal people can neither recognize nor imitate. It’s a language you have to be brought up in, and 99% of us don’t speak it.
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I think about this Thom Browne coat on Lizzo a lot. 22,000 hours of skilled, physically taxing, hand-embroidered labor. Actual human beings were paid to create a work of art.
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Sometimes I think about how cheap clothing 10 or 20 years ago is often better than mid clothing now. I have t-shirts from college that I bought at Target I still wear regularly. However cotton is literally not the same now as it was then, and clothes aren’t being sewn the same.
fuck fast fashion but my clothes purchased in 2014 from urban outfitters have lasted 8x longer than your “sustainable” slow fashion brand
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Why dryer sheets and fabric softeners are bad:
They “work” by putting a thin film of lipids or waxes over the fabric to make it feel soft to the touch.
But that waxy coating can build up on clothes. It also holds on to moisture…which is why some clothes smell bad after awhile.
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So many people citing The Hunger Games and The Handmaid’s Tale today, forgetting the meta critique of both books is that they are founded on the conceit of, “What if we treated white people the way we already treat people of color?” Irony thick enough to stand a spoon in.
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I want to learn something. Share one interesting fact you know.
I’ll start. We were able to get an idea of when humans first began wearing clothes - which was 10s of 1000s of years earlier than the oldest clothing we’ve found - because of when body lice diverged from head lice.
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I can’t stop thinking about how we’re all about to be stuck at home for months and no one wants re-watch Game of Thrones. Biggest television screwup of the decade.
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The shoes off discourse reminds me of the time I said my home is a shoes off household, and someone said, “Tell me your home is inaccessible to wheelchair users without telling me your home is inaccessible to wheelchairs users,” and I was like, “My guy, I live in a walkup.”
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I think a lot of parents don’t realize, that when they put a chokehold on their kids lives, all their kid is gonna do is fantasize about getting as far away as they can as soon as possible. And that feeling won’t go away just because they’re in their 30s or 40s.
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I just learned it can take as long as 20 years between when you’re bitten by an animal and when you show your first rabies symptoms, and that is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever heard in my life. Because as soon as you’re symptomatic, you’re dead.
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The “outside clothes” to “inside clothes” to “dust rags” sustainable fashion pipeline
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How many folks never progressed beyond high school emotionally.
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At this point, Shein could sell clothes made of human skin, and folks would get on this app and say, “Poor people deserve clothes made from human skin too. Where else am I supposed to find cheap clothes made from human skin? It’s classist to tell me not to wear human skin.”
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I went street bazaar where someone was selling shawls their Mom made with handwoven fabric and hand embroidery for $40, and there were people walking by saying it was too expensive and I felt so sad because they were practically a steal and people couldn’t recognize it.
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Sometimes I think about how the landlord in my first NYC apartment turned off the gas to drive out rent-controlled tenants (which meant no heat + couldn’t cook). The market rate renters moved but the rent-controlled tenants stayed because a bad apartment is better than none.
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Etsy went to complete and total trash the minute they decided to be Diet Amazon rather than a place for indies.
You may be audacious, but are you “passing off a set of bowls from Walmart as handmade antiques at an over 700% markup on Etsy” audacious?
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It’s a great day to remind people that silk and satin aren’t the same.
Silk is a fiber. Satin is a weave.
These sheets are (polyester) satin. Not silk satin.
Very important to know what things are called so that if you’re wanting silk, you’re buying actual *silk.*
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Re: Bridgerton discourse, why anyone is looking for perfect historical accuracy from a show that is the definition of “vibes” and “aesthetic” is wild to me.
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Brought us this All-time, Hall of Fame serve
'HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS' premiered 23 years ago today
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The USPS could easily turn a profit by abandoning mail delivery to places deemed too remote or by charging certain rural zip codes more.
But we don’t do that because the point of the USPS is to provide a service to EVERYONE, not just the most profitable parts of the country.
The U.S. Postal Service is in the midst of a 10-year plan aimed at erasing losses and eventually turning a profit. But in its last fiscal year, the agency reported a loss of $6.5 billion, a major step backward.
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In modern day currency, these are all like $10,000 dollar fits.
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The issue with capital punishment isn’t that some people don’t deserve to die. There are crimes folks should absolutely die for. The issue with capital punishment is it can never be implemented justly, so someone innocent will (or has) died. And one innocent life is not worth it.
What’s your most right wing view that could get you like this (for leftists)
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I honestly wonder how many people don’t keep a journal as a result of this. I rarely think of it as a trauma, but never writing down your thoughts and feelings anywhere because you weren’t “entitled to privacy” and punished for even making the attempt has some lingering effects.
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“I’m not being paid enough to afford brands that pay their people ethically.”
You’re so close to figuring out the real issue. So close.
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Reddit’s big secret is that it’s turned into the best social media platform. So long as you stick to the moderated subreddits you’re interested in, you’ll find the best answers, advice, and discussion over there nowadays.
Wait, why are y’all searching for shit on Reddit? That’s a discussion forum is it not? Like I think I get it, but I need to know what y’all be looking up.
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The idea of wearing something for years being a negative thing baffles me. Because why wouldn’t you want to hang on to your clothes for as long as possible? It’s time for my velvet pajamas and fleece-lined leggings to make their annual appearance, and I’m excited.
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Are people aware there’s actually no good reason to be shitty to service workers? If they’re asking how your day is as part of a script inflicted on them by their job, you don’t actually have to be terrible to them in return. What do you get out of that?
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Everytime I see a dress from the Russian Empire, I’m like, “Omg, that’s stunning, I can see why they had to get rid of the lot of you.”
Good night all. Russian ceremonial court dress, late 19th - early 20thc. From Olga Bulbenkova's Studio, St. Petersburg Silk, embroidered w/silk, silver & gold thread, imitation pearls, metal, tulle, brocade & satin. Courtesy The State Hermitage museum
@state_hermitage
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To be clear, I have no problems with children struggling on flights, especially first thing in the morning. They’re children. But what an utterly feckless man.
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Thrifting discourse has gotten so weird.
I once wore a shattered silk party dress from the 1920s to an apocalypse party.
The dress had no historical value. It was irreparably damaged. And since clothes should be worn, I wanted to give it one last, 1920’s style party hurrah.
a girl made a video where she got a 1970s dress & retooled it to be modern while still keeping the vintage feel & ppl are losing their gd minds. Bc she had the audacity to cut up a dress no one is wearing🙄the internets obsession w preserving unused items as is is unhealthy
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“Shein has lead in their clothes.”
“Other brands have lead in their clothes too! Why are you always picking on Shein!”
Like…if you know of other brands using lead or uranium or mercury or whatever, add them to the damn thread!
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Who knew that running hospitals as for-profit entities on the razor’s edge of viability might backfire?
BREAKING: U.S. hospitals are warning that they are so strapped for cash that without some financial relief, they will be unable to meet their payrolls in a matter of weeks and some could be forced to close just as coronavirus cases are surging.
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This is part of why people lose their minds at the possibility of considering something other than fast fashion.
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This garment does not exist
Not sure if i could pull this off but i would sure as fuck try
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“You’re blaming poor people for Shein!”
Listen, poor people are not to blame for the rise of Shein, because poor people are, presumably, not making hauls.
Your work wardrobe or occasional party dress is not why they currently have a $70 billion valuation.
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Breaking News: Fashion students at fashion school experiment with fashion.
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Anna Wintour needs to go
The September Vogue US cover is genuinely disheartening to look at. Some of the greatest names in fashion and this is all they could do...
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These dresses almost disintegrated until they were saved by textile conservators in 2010. To me that’s interesting because not only were these gowns close to essentially disappearing, but also because there’s an invisible science to fashion we rarely see.
Everyday I wake up thinking about these costume designs from Gone With The Wind (1939), like they had no business looking this good. No business whatsoever.
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Stuff I do that’s “sustainable” that doesn’t involve buying from sustainable brands:
1) Wear clothes until they wear out - first as outerwear, then as house clothes
2) Only buy things I’m sure I’ll wear for the long term, instead of trends
3) Check sites like Poshmark and eBay
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I’m glad Betty White knew how much she was loved and treasured while she was still here to see it.
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Every fabric that isn’t made from a natural fiber (silk, cotton, linen, rayon, wool, etc.) or material (leather, fur) is made from petroleum. Polyester, acrylic, nylon, spandex...they’re all fossil-fuel derived plastics.
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The wedding day is not the day for couture knockoffs slapped together by the local dry cleaners.
Everybody was wrong. The bride for wanting a knockoff. The seamstress for taking a commission she knew couldn’t deliver. And you never wait until the final day for the garment.
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People are being a bit odd in the comments, but I’m guessing it’s because they don’t know better, so let’s explain! A professional fashion archivist is a real, skilled job. It is one (of many!) things I am learning how to do in my program and is more than just collecting clothes
Tommy Hilfiger’s archivist, gives a fun fact about Aaliyah’s iconic Tommy Hilfiger look
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The way they had an entire period-accurate costume for Black Philip that the audience never gets to see tickles me to no end
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Refusing to rewear an outfit once it’s been photographed and posted to social media is wild behavior. Why should it matter if people see the exact same outfit? Someone explain that mindset to me.
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One of my favorite historical examples of this, for intimate apparel, is how open-crotch underwear was once the norm and closed-crotch underwear was seen as scandalous…when it is very much the opposite today.
The issue of respectability in dress, and what constitutes "proper" attire in public, has raged for as long as people have worn clothes. People who take this position fail to recognize that their own clothes were once the "yoga pants" of their day. I will run through examples 🧵
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It truly distresses me when people describe bras as some patriarchal plot invented by men because apart from being an ahistorical denial of reality, it also ignores the fact that pretty much every major innovation in bras was done by women.
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I remember how someone said young people on the internet today don’t have a metaphorical sandbox to be privately stupid in for a few years, and I think about that whenever one of these <25s go viral for saying something ridiculous.
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Babies in snowsuits! Those little Staypuft Marshmellow Michelin man babies with just their little chubby faces peeking out into the cold? One of the best parts of winter. Makes me smile everytime.
No more unpopular opinions. Tell the world something that brings you joy
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There’s “Soul Food is bad” discourse going around the feed today, and I wonder if the folks saying that have some generational distance from the South and don’t know what soul food is, because I never ate so many fresh vegetables and good cuts of meat as when I lived in Georgia.
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The most honorable thing to do would be to pay her family.
Nearly 70 years after her death, Henrietta Lacks — whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge or consent and led to world-changing advances in medical and scientific research— was honored by the World Health Organization.
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I’ve noticed often that when we’re talking about “nice clothes” or “quality clothes” on here, people assume we’re talking brand about Louis Vuitton or Versace. But I’d like people to break apart the notion that nice or quality is the same as luxury or designer.
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Over the weekend, I learned my husband has been tipping 100% on all takeout and to-go orders since the pandemic began which 1) explains why everybody at the local pub knows his name and 2) is also just a really cool thing to have done?
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One historical fabric I’m currently obsessed with is French soufflé, which is a ultra fine French silk weave that gave the most *amazing* nude effect, but was so flammable it had to be outlawed. Some of the most iconic dresses in fashion history used it.
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One of the funnier things about saying 35 looks old (apart from the usual caveats that it isn’t old and there’s nothing wrong with looking old), is that, compared to our parents and grandparents, we are the youngest-looking 35 year olds that have ever existed.
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Ready to be a fake woman foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
A real woman is ready to sacrifice her career for the man she truly loves.
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The bit about reading faster than people can talk hits home for me. Listening to video (or audiobooks or podcasts) is like processing information in slow motion.
Also, we should talk about how people tend to trust video more, and how that’s messing with critical thinking.
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The “13 year old wishlist” conversation is really an interesting one because there’s such an obvious generational gap between people who were teenagers when social media was a thing and people who were teenagers when it wasn’t. Completely changed consumption patterns.
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I’ll say it again - one of the reasons that people with breasts and vulvas know so little about how they work and how to keep them healthy and what’s normal and abnormal, is because even the most casual discussion about our bodies is seen as pornographic.
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I don’t want to QRT Lex because I don’t have a problem with her or her opinion, but I think reducing these books to “slave” stories, as many in the comments are, ignores that only the first book is about slavery, and the rest of the series is about being newly free up North.
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People used to bring their kids to the airport just to watch planes.
Bro I’m confused, so before 9/11 you just walked to your gate? There was NO security???
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I would believe literally any story so long as it takes place in a Waffle House. Waffle Houses exist at the intersection of all dimensions. Anything is possible once you step in.
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Adults are so condescending to children. Just a complete dismissal of their feelings, interests, likes, and dislikes as unimportant and silly. Children can tell when you don’t think of them as real people.
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Today is May 1st. Also known as the first Monday in May. Also known as Met Gala Day. Also known as the day thousands of people decide they hate museum fundraisers because this one funds something they think of as valueless: the archive and preservation of fashion history.
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I’ve gotten a lot of new followers lately, so it’s a good day to urgently remind everyone that ALL clothing is handmade. It doesn’t matter if it’s a $2 t-shirt or $20,000 couture, someone had to make it. We don’t have automatic clothes-sewing machines.
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Reminder that you don’t need a “good” reason to block people. Getting too familiar is a reason. Being annoying is a reason. Responding with a joke when you’re being serious is a reason. You are under no obligation to allow strangers into your space, including online spaces.
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For as long as I am on this app, I am never going to forget that one person who was like, “Human rights abuses at Shein are okay because otherwise my friends and I can’t get alt clothes,” and they - and all the people agreeing - called themselves communists.
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The scream that just arose from deep within my chest at this stunning embroidery 😭
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Hey, you don’t have to “feel thin” to have thin privilege.
Thinness isn’t a feeling. If other people perceive you as thin, you are thin. If you are able to walk into any clothing store and expect to see a wide range of options in your size, you are thin.
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Love how Black people cleared their schedules on a Saturday to come together for Jamie Foxx. We really do love him.
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I am begging and pleading for everyone to understand that using a sewing machine doesn’t mean the garment is being made automatically and a human is sitting there chilling and smoking a cigarette instead of doing the work of sewing.
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