emmagrant01:

knitmeapony:

amelou:

cool-glasses-kyle:

markmejia:

High School Fashion, 1969

What a trip.

Wow these photos are stunning

Some of these outfits are the raddest things I’ve ever seen.

Can we talk about the tights.

The existence of photos like these (and similar photos from the 70s and 80s and so on) makes me wonder yet again why current-day movies set in this time never seem to be able to get the hair and clothing right.

wlwellbutrin:

i just want people to know that engaging in disordered eating patterns is harmful and difficult regardless of whether it never morphs into a clinically diagnosable eating disorder, and if you are dealing with any of this you have my utmost sympathy and care. i am so tired of diet culture treating these behaviors as though they’re completely fine as long as they’re not “bad enough.”

literatureandtrees:

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

— James Baldwin

birlinterrupted:

I just learned yesterday abt this existing and it’s so baffling to me that healthcare determinations wrt CA state law are able to be sent by a state govt agency to a private corporation in VA

Just a little of what they’ve been up to in the UK:

ATOS, Maximus and Capita questioned on ‘gruelling’ medical assessments (“The Work and Pensions Committee questions Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) contractors Atos, Capita and Maximus, who carry out the medical assessments for disability benefits PIP and ESA, putting the disturbing evidence it has heard so far to them. The Committee also publishes the contractors’ written evidence ahead of their oral testimony.”)

Maximus make “jaw-dropping” profits from DWP assessments

Some context: British government systematically violating the rights of the disabled, UN inquiry warns

From today: Spending cuts breach UK’s human rights obligations, says report (“Alston said the UK was in breach of four UN human rights agreements relating to women, children, disabled people, and economic and social rights.” )