Microfilm Monday

Cutie-pie Stella. Source

Consumerism:
♦"Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed" (Wow, hadn't considered this.)

Disabilities/Illness:
♦Spoon Theory: explaining Lupus and its effects on daily life (This is a fantastic explanation for dealing with many disabilities/health issues; chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, cancer, clinical depression... the list goes on)

DIY:
♦Make a pinhole camera
♦Poster Wall Art (Very cool idea)
♦Home-made lotion bars

Feminism:
♦Advice on dealing with "Creepy Dudes" (It is a long read, but very worthwhile.)
♦ Lingerie Football League (How is wearing bikinis safe for tackling on AstroTurf?)
♦The other end of the spectrum: Prom-Dress Rugby (This looks awesome!)
♦Why is a woman having a positive body image and self love considered vain, or prideful?
♦"Skin Tone Tights" one color doesn't fit all.
♦Eye opener: Please stop calling illness a battle. (This post is about eating disorders, but the idea would also apply to cancer and other illnesses.)
Amazing excerpt:

"Women are pretty much expected to have pathological relationships with their bodies -- hence the usual bonding over self-loathing..."

Lol:
♦ Bargain Bin Blasphemy: Old LP's remade into Black-metal art
♦ Shakespearean Insults (Thou art a frothy, milk-livered maggot-pie!)

Mental Health/Self Care:
♦7 Ideas for being kinder to yourself

Modesty:
♦One Jewish woman's struggle with hair coverings (She decided not to.)
♦Another woman's journey toward head coverings
♦A very thorough post on finding flattering hats.

Noms:
♦Breakfast quiche
♦Cranberry Wild rice soup (Veg. but not vegan has half n half.)
♦Scottish Toffee

WTF:
♦Food fraud is common?!
♦Super creepy tableware (Stuff of nightmares)
♦My first meme coloring book
♦The Spider Who Couldn't Hide

Mysterious Monday

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Advocacy:
♦The true cost of $9.00 shirts...  (Please remember that when you buy, you use your money to vote for something. Choose wisely.)
♦Real talk about Queer folks and sex (Tip: don't ask overly personal questions, its rude)
♦A climate of control, rape, and violence:

• "A woman is beaten every nine seconds in this country. Just to be clear: not nine minutes, but nine seconds. It’s the number-one cause of injury to American women"
•  "there is a backlog of about 400,000 untested rape kits in this country—rapists who impregnate their victims have parental rights in 31 states."
• Here in the United States, where there is a reported rape every 6.2 minutes, and one in five women will be raped in her lifetime 

 If you read the above post and are feeling really down, go here now! (This sweet little dog will make you smile.)

Art:
♦Art + Science + cool
♦Amazing ...just wow!

Awesome:
♦"What is Art?" Quotes form famous folks.
♦I am not a huge fan of V-Day, AND I like zombie movies... But I would be terrified to receive one of these as a gift!
♦Do you have pets, and no dates? Do not fret!

DIY:
♦Message in a bottle necklace
♦Send a slice of cake through the mail? What???
♦Do you have tons of plastic toys laying around? Make a cool wreath!
♦Make your own soot sprites! (Soot sprites are little critters from from My Neighbor Totoro, and Spirited Away.

Lol:
♦Wiggly Eyed- Everything Is Staring At You (My fav)
♦Misidentified photos from Facebook.
♦Only "medium terrified"
♦"Manly" soap (The coffee one sound great! But urinal cakes...eww!)
♦I think that I would need a much larger book! (Smugness alert! Ha!)
♦Have you heard of owl burritos?

Noms:
♦Lentil Meatball Sliders (Veg)
♦Snickerdoodle Pumpkin bread (Veg)
♦Homemade Funnel Cake (Dangerously bad for you, but tasty!)

Mental Health/ Self Care:
♦7 Realizations That Will Help you suffer less
♦Free Yourself From Emotional Debt: Move Beyond Pain from the Past

Modesty:
♦Interview with the woman behind a new online shop caters to modest dress.
♦"Why I wear a headscarf" A very interesting interview.
(I find modest dress, and the motivations behind it fascinating.)

“If you could send yourself from 10 years ago one sentence of advice and it would actually be delivered….what would that one sentence be?” ~ Veronica Varlow

Mine would be: Trust your intuition! What would yours be?