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Sarah. 15. Korea. NO I DON'T LIKE KIMCHI. I like basketball and watching TV. My favorite shows are Switched at Birth, Manhattan Love Story, and anything else. I love Grace because she helped me make this. Her blog is also great... it's i-am-arkham-asylum
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vugust: the sky looks like this everyday..i swear
coldplaymania: “When the lights go down, that’s 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It’s when you’re all in agreement about what you’re all doing so it’s a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.” - Chris Martin
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thegravelbro: Hey guys, just wanted to share a bit of my story with you. My name is Leo, and I’m transgender. I have no support from my parents, as both are bible thumping, abusive bigots who have made this process nearly impossible. Since coming out, my mom has been sending me cruel and hateful text messages and bullying me relentlessly. This includes sending pictures of me when I was female and captioning them “pretty Elizabeth” which is obliviously super fucking dysphoric and exhausting. I’ve attached some for you guys to read so can you see just how incredibly ignorant and toxic she is. I try not to let it get to me, but after years of psychological abuse, they know how to weaken me. I’m suffering from both depression and severe anxiety, and wearing a binder every day has become excruciatingly painful. Most days I don’t even want to leave bed. I am doing my best but am currently homeless and struggling to get by. I just want to be a normal person again.
The cost of the procedure, hospital, travel and lodging fees will be around $10,500. Even if it’s just a dollar, I would be so grateful for your support. Here’s the link to my GoFundMe, if you guys could please help me spread this around I would appreciate it. gofundme.com/letshelpleo
Signal boosts would be AWESOME. I love you critters!
jennilee: The Sea Women of South Korea - The New Yorker For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor. Known as haenyeo, or sea women, they use no breathing equipment, although a typical dive might last around two minutes and take them as deep as ten metres underwater. Wearing old-fashioned headlight-shaped scuba masks, most dive with lead weights strapped around their waists to help them sink faster. A round flotation device called a tewak, about the size of a basketball, sits at the surface of the water with a net hanging beneath it to collect the harvest. Some use a sharp tool to dig conch, abalone, and other creatures from the crevices on the seafloor. The photographer Hyung S. Kim regularly went to Jeju between 2012 and 2014 in order to photograph the haenyeo. He set up a plain white backdrop near the shore, and would persuade divers to have their pictures taken as they emerged from the water, usually after five or six hours of work. “This was a very difficult process,” Kim says. “They were not used to being photographed, especially against an artificially created background, so they would often avoid me entirely.” The resulting portraits (which are currently on display at the Korean Cultural Service in New York, in prints that span from floor to ceiling) show what will likely be the last generation of haenyeo. Of the approximately twenty-five hundred active divers today (down from more than twenty thousand in the nineteen-sixties), the vast majority are over the age of sixty. The youngest is thirty-eight, and the oldest woman Kim photographed was over ninety. Last year, South Korea applied to have the haenyeo added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list. More
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