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Hi, I look pretty today. Here are some beauty products...

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Hi, I look pretty today.

Here are some beauty products I’m really into lately:

Clinique Lash Power Long-Wearing Mascara in “Dark Chocolate"– I bought this because I’d heard good things about Clinique’s mascaras and I was not disappointed. This is a super dark brown and it stays on my lashes FOREVER. Something about the shape of the brush causes me to continually poke myself in the eye with it by accident, but it’s non-irritating (?!) and I love the formula enough that I don’t care.

A brow kit from Sephora which has since sold out so I can’t link to it – It included some brow stencils, a little tinted brow gel compact (similar) with two tiny brushes, a tube of brow gel, some tweezers, and an angled brush for applying brow powder. Seriously a genius kit. I didn’t think I’d use it very often but I’ve been using it every single day.

Body Shop Mango Body Butter and Puur Body Sugar Cookie Body Butter– Perfect for just-shaved legs. I also like to dab a little bit behind each ear in lieu of perfume (I alternate between the two products, depending on whether I want to smell like the tropics or like a bowl of cake batter).

Mario Badescu Enzyme Cleansing Gel– A lovely, gentle cleanser. I received a sample of this and will be buying more, methinks.

Jojoba oil– An ideal overnight moisturizer. Great for oil control. Not too heavy.

Boscia Luminizing Black Mask– It makes you look racially insensitive when it’s on, but it’s great for extracting crap from your pores. Plus it’s a peel-off, which is fun!


this is literally a message I just received on OkCupid

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omg….see.. the picture is just a channel to you, it just feels like you are numbed…like you exist not live…please say if i am wrong….

See some people live for gain….for glory…for greed….you live for humanity…thats what i sense…but youve slipped off your path…like youre lost and cant find your way i do not know what is happening around you…but it seems that you are engulfed in some kind of spirit Struggle…some dark fight

when i looked at your pic, i get this deep sense of saddness…and noone seems to notice…its like everyone knows you to be upbeat..to be strong…but ifeel deep saddness in you… you have to develop your gifting…..use it to your purpose it was given to you

strengthen your spirit….you have good energies….you seem gifted in some way…..look inward and upward and meditate….let your spirit arise to god

am i wrong here???…should i just go away??

I permanently have a thing for the type of person who is female-assigned-at-birth, identifies as...

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I permanently have a thing for the type of person who is female-assigned-at-birth, identifies as queer and/or trans* and/or genderqueer, is vegan, bikes a lot, cares about politics/activism, and probably has an undercut… but I feel that this type of person isn’t naturally drawn to a person like me. Not only because I eat meat but also because I… don’t look queer enough?… or something.

few things improve my self-esteem quite like filling in my...

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few things improve my self-esteem quite like filling in my eyebrows til they look fierce as hell

theprophetlilith: ciscritical-not-cisphobic: What do the concept of virginity, the idea of “gold...

babypudding: i was talking with my gf about this guy i used to work with who switched his major to...

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babypudding:

i was talking with my gf about this guy i used to work with who switched his major to womens studies and we were both like oh that’s awesome, a GUY in WOMENS STUDIES, but then we started talking about it and i started thinking about it and it’s led to this:

I refuse to celebrate men who “take an interest" in feminism or major in women’s studies, etc, because giving a shit about equality and wanting equality for the woman who gave birth to you and the women in your life is NOT a radical notion and you do NOT deserve to be treated like a special snowflake simply because you are a MAN who finally realized that women don’t have it so easy and that it’s mostly your fault.

why is my feminism annoying? why is my feminism dismissed, why is my care for women’s rights ignored but when a man says anything about women’s rights, it’s heard and he’s a hero? oh, wait. i know exactly why.

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I HIGHLY recommend making grand exciting plans for yourself several months in advance. It makes life...

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I HIGHLY recommend making grand exciting plans for yourself several months in advance. It makes life feel so much more joyful and anticipatory.

I bought my front-row-centre tickets for Angels In America 6 months ago and I’ve been waiting eagerly for August to come ever since. I’m going to see it in 11 days and I’m SOOOO EXCITED.

My mom just made me show her a map of the Soulpepper theatre and where my seat is located (A-8!!) and it just amped up my excitement even more.


"The same Hebrew word that is used in Genesis 2:24 to describe how Adam felt about Eve (and how..."

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“The same Hebrew word that is used in Genesis 2:24 to describe how Adam felt about Eve (and how spouses are supposed to feel toward each other) is used in Ruth 1:14 to describe how Ruth felt about Naomi. Her feelings are celebrated, not condemned.

And throughout Christian history, Ruth’s vow to Naomi has been used to illustrate the nature of the marriage covenant. These words are often read at Christian wedding ceremonies and used in sermons to illustrate the ideal love that spouses should have for one another. The fact that these words were originally spoken by one woman to another tells us a lot about how God feels about same-gender relationships.”

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Ruth loved Naomi as Adam loved Eve

#in your bible#emphasizing your queers

(via colinfirth)

Seriously: there’s no arguing with Language. It will tell you what’s going on, if you just listen.

(via dduane)

Face for a lazy Sunday afternoon. MAC Studio Fix powder...

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Face for a lazy Sunday afternoon.

MAC Studio Fix powder foundation; Sugarpill eyeshadows in Dollipop, Poison Plum, and Tako; Sephora eyebrow wax; Maybelline Baby Lips in Cherry Me; DiorShow mascara; L’Oreal Lineur Intense liquid eyeliner.

Caitlin sent me a bunch of naked pictures of myself today. I am feeling alternately anxious and...

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Caitlin sent me a bunch of naked pictures of myself today. I am feeling alternately anxious and joyous about how I look in them.

SELF-ESTEEM IS HARD YO

beauxbatons: oh my god i’m fucking sick of this generation’s mentality that your sadness is...

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beauxbatons:

oh my god i’m fucking sick of this generation’s mentality that your sadness is beautiful and somebody will fix you and all this fucking john green shit nobody will find you in a bookstore reading bukowski and want to lie with you and nobody will kiss your scars and you will not be like effie and freddie you’ve got to be your own fucking hero and surround yourself with positivity

ugh, preach. I am so tired of hearing people (ALMOST ALWAYS GIRLS) say that they don’t want to make an effort to be happy because they think their sadness is a signature part of them, or they think they’ll be boring when they’re happy, or some shit like that.

Look, happiness feels good, that’s why it’s called happiness. Being unhappy is inevitable sometimes, but to make it into a habit or a lifestyle (when you don’t have to, i.e. aren’t suffering from clinical depression, etc.) is boring as hell.

Look for things to feel good about. Make a gratitude list every day. Highlight the best parts of yourself and work on changing the parts you don’t like. Choose not to dwell on the shitty things that happen. If you have a functional brain, you have the power to do this stuff. And you should.

"You invited me to your 40th birthday party a few weeks later. You asked me if I would pick up your..."

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You invited me to your 40th birthday party a few weeks later. You asked me if I would pick up your Italian rum cake from Dianda’s Bakery at 25th & Mission and bring it with me to your party in Oakland. I was honored to be the bringer of the cake. And I was so nervous to impress you that I ended up running late.

You threw your party at your ex-girlfriend’s house because it was bigger than your one-bedroom apartment. (And because the two of you are those kinds of dykes.) Her kitchen and living room and backyard were stuffed full of beautiful, freaky, tattooed & pierced queers & perverts & sex workers. I saw people I’ve known for years. I met people I had never met before. At 27, I was one of the younger folks in the room. I felt a little bit like I’d been invited to hang out at the Grown-Up Table.

I set the rum cake on your ex’s counter with an “Oomph” & a sigh, and I looked up at you. You grinned that unmistakable grin at me, your wide mouth just a little crooked at one corner. The tiny sparkles in your cat-eye glasses and the little gold star embedded in your upper lip glinted in the late afternoon sun. You held out a spoonful of caviar. You asked if you could have the honor hand-feeding me Sex With A Sturgeon. “Um…” I gulped, “Yes?”

I don’t remember what the caviar tasted like, but I still remember how delighted you looked to be feeding it to me. A little dirty, a little sweet. A little wicked, a little maternal.

You kept handing me tiny cups of exquisite booze – cognacs, and liqueurs, and grappa, and things I don’t remember & can’t pronounce. “I don’t usually drink, like, ever…” I remember saying somewhere around the fourth glass of whatever awesome thing it was you were handing to me. “Oh, then you should eat more,” you said, and you smiled that smile at me again, prepared me a plate full of all of the best foods of my childhood, every single Italian delicacy that I love, cured meats & salty cheeses, olives & artichokes, figs & apricots & cherries. Later, we drank hot chocolate with more cognac in it, roasted marshmallows & made s’mores by a roaring fire. That party felt like Christmas & Pride & Folsom all wrapped up together but without any of the bullshit of Christmas or Pride or Folsom. I slept better that night than I’d slept in months.

I woke up the next morning to an email from you entitled “Your Face.” It is still one of the best emails I have ever gotten. “You were the bringer of the cake,” you said. The cake was special. The cake was about family, a thread that tied your childhood in that neighborhood in South Phillie where you bought cannoli & capicola from the corner store & learned the Calabrese & Sicilian slang that you use with me, to the Jewish family of origin that you haven’t talked to in years, to the queer family that you’ve worked hard to build.

I know this story down to my bones. I spent the entirety of my twenties trying to figure out how to have a relationship with my big, fucked-up, broke & broken Paisano family full of drunk men & weary women. I know all too well the things about family that you hold dear, the things you want to keep alive, the ways you struggle to reconcile where you come from & where you can’t go back to, at least not without hardship, at least not without losing some important parts of yourself. The complicated choice of either getting to hang out with other outsiders who don’t understand the culture you come from, or hanging out with family of origin who don’t understand your other cultures – your queerness, your gender, your perversion, your politics.

This is a pain many people at the sexual & gender margins feel with their families, but it is a deeper pain for some of us than it is for others. For me, it’s about how I move my body in the world, what I choose to say & show, whom I choose to say & show it to. It is about my family of origin knowing a few things about my queerness & genderqueerness, information up to a very specific & limited point, but understanding absolutely nothing about my life or how I conduct my relationships with friends & lovers.

My friends know that I have a chronic illness. My friends know why I am sick & laid up & in pain a lot; my mother doesn’t. My friends know that my heart got shattered into a million pieces last year, that it took me months to recover; but I will never talk about my intimate relationships with my father. My friends know that I have struggled with eating disorders for my entire life; but I will never talk about anorexia with my viciously fatphobic grandmother. And. Still. Nobody else makes gnocchi or pizzelles like my Nana. Nobody else lights candles for me or prays for me like she does.

It is easier to hate your fucked-up family or your fucked-up friends when they are actually hateful, but humans are human. Humans fuck up. You can want to wring someone’s neck & still love them endlessly. You can be glad someone is out of your life & still miss them every single day.

I understood the rum cake, is what I’m trying to say. I know how important the connective tissue between very different & very precious worlds can be.



- Quoth DaveEnd: “So this is the ‘How To Have A Family’ chapter of How To Have A Body, right?!" (via howtohaveabody)

sazquatch: When I stopped giving a shit about male approval, I became about twice as confident in...

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sazquatch:

When I stopped giving a shit about male approval, I became about twice as confident in myself, and my insecurity levels went down substantially.

10/10 would recommend.

"Fat people have the right to exist in fat bodies regardless of how we got fat, what being fat means,..."


Size 10 jeans, please: Why do girls wear makeup to the gym!?

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Size 10 jeans, please: Why do girls wear makeup to the gym!?:

jellyboness:

the-exercist:

ron-burgundyy:

You look like a dickhead

People wear makeup because they enjoy it. It really is as simple as that - Going to the gym is no different than any other activity during the day, so why not look the way that you want to look?

Their makeup does not hurt…

Most girls wear makeup to the gym simply because they are usually out doing other things that day. After class I’d go to the gym, wipe off my face makeup but leave my eye makeup cause its a pain in the ass to remove. Plus I’d typically go grocery shopping or whatever afterwards and I still wanted to look decent.
I know that some people put on makeup specifically to go to the gym. This could be because makeup is a bit of a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t" situation in general. As women we are told we are naturally shallow, stupid, over emotional and high maintenance. If we wear makeup that is deemed “inappropriate" for a situation, we are shamed. If we wear “too much" makeup, we’re seen as fake and dumb.
As women, we are also told that we are worthless if we are unattractive. We are told by society that we must be beautiful. We must fit in. We must sit down, shut up and look good.
If you do wear makeup to the gym, people think you’re trampy and care too much about how you look.
You’re not taken seriously as an athlete. If you don’t wear makeup to the gym, people think you’re ugly and masculine. You’re not taken seriously as a woman.
Of course this isn’t the case 100% of the time. I’m only speaking from experience. I could go on and on forever about the sexism/racism/transphobia etc that takes place at the gym but I’ll leave it here.

"In the U.S. every year, 207,754 people are raped, so there are also a whole bunch of people..."

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“In the U.S. every year, 207,754 people are raped, so there are also a whole bunch of people committing those rapes. What that means is that any comic who regularly performs in front of an audience is likely to spend at least some time telling jokes to someone who’s raped someone. And when he hears a joke like Tosh’s, that starts with “How can a rape joke not be funny?!” and goes on to say that a woman who interrupts him deserves to be raped –- or a joke like Morril’s (“My ex-girlfriend never made me wear a condom… She was on the pill: Ambien!”) –- he’s probably going to feel pretty comfortable in that room.

When he hears the laughs in response to Morril’s joke, he’s not liable to feel shame about the night the girl from the bar passed out when he got her upstairs; he’s probably going to feel like he’s surrounded by a bunch of people who agree that what he did wasn’t really a big deal. He’s going to be reassured that he’s not in a society that takes it seriously.”

- What Do Rapists Think About Rape Jokes? | xoJane (via brute-reason)

captainkittysticks: My naked body is not sinful or immoral. It is not dirty or bad or wrong. My...

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captainkittysticks:

My naked body is not sinful or immoral. It is not dirty or bad or wrong. My naked body is not pornographic, obscene, or “slutty."

My naked body is just a body.

Any negative ideas you have about a naked body are due to sexualizing bodies, and the idea that sex is a dirty thing.

Why are you offended by and afraid of your own anatomy?

Get over it.

My naked body is just a body.

"The worst part of it is how it cements the fear that young girls are already battling, that the..."

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“The worst part of it is how it cements the fear that young girls are already battling, that the world is just waiting to judge you, your clothes, your weight, your looks. It baffles me that the vast majority of comments on some of my YouTube videos that have over a million hits are about the existence of my armpit hair, not the music, not the actual artistic content. And it’s 2013. I thought this was supposed to be the future. What happened?”

- Amanda (fucking) Palmer - ‘What now for Britain’s new-wave feminists – after page 3 and £10 notes?’ (x)
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from last week’s guardian newspaper.
full article : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/27/new-generation-of-feminists-set-agenda (via amandapalmer)

favorite things currently:

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-David’s Tea, especially Forever Nuts (it’s PINK and it tastes nutty and warm) + Movie Night (it has POPCORN in it!!)
-running on the treadmill
-Girls + Orange is the New Black
-Mario Badescu skincare products
-green grapes
-jamming with Max
-Will & Grace marathons with my mom
-writing + editing

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