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victoriousvocabulary:

PREVENANCY

[noun]

courteous anticipation of others’ wishes; the act of anticipating another’s wishes, desires, etc., in the way of favour or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness.

Etymology: from Latin praevenīre, present active infinitive of praeveniō, “anticipate”.

[bluefooted]

"They were like two enemies in love with one another."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via observando)

(Source: observando)

amaranth-mantis:

When it comes to gender transitions, trans patients are often inappropriately held to higher account when compared to people opting for other kinds of medical care. Standards of care are effectively constructed on the assumption that trans patients are less able to provide informed consent. This is a serious problem. Beneath it lies the wider distrust society still has in why people want to transition and in whether they know their own mind.

See also: why I’m jumping through so many therapy hoops right now, why I’m being forced to lose more weight than is even slightly healthy (and being very grudgingly allowed a reprieve from some of that), and why I’m terrified the insurance that’s even making this possible will use my mental health history as a basis for denying my claim…

(Source: tipsfortransfolks, via pumpkinskull)

prostheticknowledge:

BIOMEDIATION

Audio visual performance project by João Beira involves a performer wearing an EEG brainwave reader who is meditating - the results distort the Kinect-captured presentation - video embedded below:

BIOMEDIATION is a sensor based audiovisual performance that digitizes the practice of meditation.
Through the use of a EEG headset, the cognitive and emotional experience of the performer is translated dynamically to sound and video compositions. It connects the body to brain activity, merging the physical world with the psychic dimension. Collaboration between João Beira and Yago de Quay.

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(Source: vimeo.com)

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Alec Huxley

Via

(via piinapuu)

visualgraphc:

Moons

(Source: behance.net, via thepersonbehindthisaccount)

zerostatereflex:

Slow LIfe

“‘Slow’ marine animals show their secret life under high magnification”

Absolutely beautiful.

(via jellyfishtimes)

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Whoa, whoa, whoa. What’s missing from this paragraph? Here’s what: it completely ignores the fact that girls are being told that they are “bossy” in situations when they are actually fulfilling a leadership role and/or exercising legitimate power to speak their minds. Why would someone choose to use a “useful descriptive word” so inappropriately? Clearly, it’s to keep girls in their place. It’s called “gaslighting” and it’s not a new concept. Convincing a girl that she is being too “aggressive” or “pushy” when she is not is an extremely powerful manipulation technique. Gaslighting is meant to make a person question their “memory, perception, or sanity” and in the case of “bossy”, this gaslighting is specifically meant to make a girl question her legitimacy as an opinion-holder and leader. Adding a “-y” to the end to “boss” trivializes the word, so a “boss-y” person is a person with no legitimate power. Now, let’s stop for a minute and think about what we would call a girl who is exercising illegitimate power over other children in inappropriate ways. Do we have a word for that? Yes, we do: bullying. If so-called “bossy” girls are not bullying, then what is the problem here? It’s actually pretty serious: they are disrupting the social order.

The word “bossy” derives much of its power from another highly-destructive, gendered word: “nice.” The two of those words together set up a framework with significant power to keep girls “in their place.” By definition, a “bossy” girl is not a “nice” girl. A “nice” girl is generally considered to be pleasant, agreeable, and cooperative. She waits for permission and does not make waves by assuming power or challenging others’ assumptions or ideas. Where is the space between “bossy” and “nice”? It’s like the virgin/whore dichotomy. Unless we want to stay stuck in this no-win space, we have to step outside of the “bossy” v. “nice” frame and choose new words that do not reinforce old patriarchal ideas. If we set ourselves up to discuss the word “bossy”, then that’s what we’ll discuss. Yes, the Ban Bossy campaign has gotten people thinking about the word in a new way, and that’s amazing. But instead of taking away the word’s power, this campaign is inadvertently shoring it up.

How the “Ban Bossy” Conversation is Getting Derailed | Feminist Messaging Project (via becauseiamawoman)

(Source: feministmessagingproject.com, via politicsoflanguage)

cinemagorgeous:

Gorgeous concept art by Jiří Světinský.

victoriousvocabulary:

ENTHEASTIC

[adjective]

1. inspired; aroused, animated, or imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence.

2. of godlike energy; divinely inspired.

Etymology: ultimately from Ancient Greek ἔνθεος (entheos, “full of (a/the) god, inspired”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + θεός (theos, “god”) + -al.

[Mihai Criste]