Elizabeth Smart’s takedown of abstinence-based education as complete trash is absolutely wonderful.

“It’s feelings of self worth. Feeling like, who would ever want me now? I’m worthless. That’s what it was for me the first time I was raped. I was raised in a very religious household. One that taught that sex was something special that only happened between a husband and wife that loved each other. That’s how I was raised, that’s what I was taught to follow. That when I got married then and only then would I engage in sex. For that first rape, I felt crushed. Who could want me now? I felt so dirty and so filthy. I understand all too easily why someone wouldn’t run because of that alone. If you could imagine the most special thing being taken away from you and not that that was your only value in life, but something that devalued you. Can you imagine turning around and going back into society where you’re no longer valued? Where you’re no longer as good as everybody else? I remember in school, one time I had a teacher who was talking about abstinence, and she said imagine you’re a stick of gum, and when you engage in sex, that’s like getting chewed. And if you do that lots of times you’re going to become an old piece of gum, and who’s going to want you after that? That’s terrible but nobody should ever say that. But for me, I thought oh my gosh. I’m that chewed up piece of gum! Nobody re-chews a piece of gum, and that’s how easily it is to feel that you no longer have worth. You no longer have value.”

Elizabeth Smart speaking at a human trafficking conference at Johns Hopkins on May 1st


“Ice Cream” by Brian Callaway
THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE

“Ice Cream” by Brian Callaway

THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE


I have The sophisticated palate of a daycare center

I have The sophisticated palate of a daycare center


Yet again, this elderly man came into my coffee shop and handed me a slip of paper with his # on it. however I did google it and he doesn’t live at the Pine Street Inn, so maybe my popularity is expanding beyond the shelter community

Yet again, this elderly man came into my coffee shop and handed me a slip of paper with his # on it. however I did google it and he doesn’t live at the Pine Street Inn, so maybe my popularity is expanding beyond the shelter community


surisburnbook:

Who Ivy Carter? The cutest celebrity toddlers are still Harper and Gideon Burtka-Harris. I want that bathing cap a little bit. 

UMMMM NPH’s babies are EVERYTHING right now. That headgear is ON!

surisburnbook:

Who Ivy Carter? The cutest celebrity toddlers are still Harper and Gideon Burtka-Harris. I want that bathing cap a little bit. 

UMMMM NPH’s babies are EVERYTHING right now. That headgear is ON!


Bahhhh grandma ida just favorited my tweet! SHES WATCHING ALL OF US

Bahhhh grandma ida just favorited my tweet! SHES WATCHING ALL OF US


When I get stuck on the T with my winter coat on


think-progress:

What’s next for Kaitlyn Hunt, the teen charged with a felony for a same-sex relationship with a classmate. 

think-progress:

What’s next for Kaitlyn Hunt, the teen charged with a felony for a same-sex relationship with a classmate.