Something Somewhere is Beautiful

"The way we try to recruit girls into STEM fields is all wrong. We typically compare them to some..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:48:27 -0700

“The way we try to recruit girls into STEM fields is all wrong. We typically compare them to some great woman or someone that has gone before them. We are saying, “Hey, you can be like Madam Curie or Sally Ride.” It is recruiting by intimidation. We need to change that message. We need to recruit by appealing to WHY we need them in STEM. We NEED you to help make the world a better place We NEED you to help discover the cure for cancer. We NEED you because you have the ability to change the course of humanity for the better.”

- Tim Holt on why we still see the number of females in STEM fields fall way behind their male counterparts. Also see how geography paved the way for women in science.

(↬ gender and science)

I’m sorry, but that wouldn’t have made me join STEM. You either are interested or you aren’t, but lots of women don’t know if they would have liked it until it’s too late. EDUCATION needs to expose girls to science in an engaging and fun way. Real women professionals need to engage young girls and teach them what it means to be a scientist. If they like it, they like it. If they don’t, don’t guilt trip them into it by saying you need them.

merajaybird: xojanedotcom: 14 things no one will tell fat...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:40:42 -0700

merajaybird:

xojanedotcom:

14 things no one will tell fat girls…

Read this ^^^

You’re allowed to fall in love with yourself. I promise. This will be the scariest thing you will ever do, and that’s okay. It will also be the most amazing (albeit super gradual) experience you will ever have. It doesn’t make you narcissistic. It doesn’t make you vain. It is liberating in every form of the word.

It’s also okay to have days where you don’t love yourself. Read this. No really. Read it. And then realize that we’ve grown up learning and internalizing that we are not okay our entire life. For me, that’s 26 years of self-hate indoctrination and brainwashing. It’s going to take a lot longer than you think to reverse this thinking, and it’s definitely not going to happen overnight. Allow yourself to have “weak” days. Cry, mourn, sob, yell, throw things. Whichever. Then get up, brush yourself off, give the media the finger, and move forward because you’re a warrior. […]

You are fucking beautiful. I’m saying this with a straight face and seriously meaningful look where I maintain eye contact for an uncomfortable amount of time. I know you don’t feel like you fit into the category of gorgeous that our world creates. I know that it’s hard. I know that it’s a daily battle. But fuck their fascist beauty standards. The second you stop looking for a skinny model in your mirror and start looking at YOU… is the second you will start to appreciate who you are. Stop looking for flaws. Stop looking for differences. You are perfect. You are more than enough. You are the best thing that has ever happened to you. And you are fucking beautiful.

Say it with me.

I sort of resent that it says that it’s explicitly for fat girls. I think every girl needs to say these things. Fat or overweight or skinny or whatever.

whythefuckareyouromeo: wtfshiroko: Radioactive (Music Box...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:22:01 -0700

whythefuckareyouromeo:

wtfshiroko:

Radioactive (Music Box Version) - Imagine Dragons

by JoshuaSaundersMusic

Well that took me 0.01 seconds to reblog

This is so soothing

Another gorgeous day on Keiki beach (Taken with Instagram)

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:14:26 -0700

Another gorgeous day on Keiki beach (Taken with Instagram)

This is so great…

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:58:43 -0700

This is so great…

Taken with instagram

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:20:54 -0800

Taken with instagram

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Taken with instagram

Sunsets. (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:18:22 -0800

Sunsets. (Taken with instagram)

Photo: Original

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Photo: Original

Quote: Panic! at the Disco Photo: photography exchange...

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:17:58 -0700

Quote: Panic! at the Disco

Photo: photography exchange (www.sxc.hu)

Photo: NASA (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod)

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Photo: NASA (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod)

Photo

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:51:22 -0700

Original Photo. Quote by Helen Keller

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Original Photo. Quote by Helen Keller

http://www.aviary.com/artists/whitneyg/creations/let_us_all_be_th...

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:39:30 -0800

http://www.aviary.com/artists/whitneyg/creations/let_us_all_be_thankful_

Photo: Original

Quote: Buddha

Photo

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Photo

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Photo from who knows where, Already Gone- Kelly Clarkson

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Photo from who knows where,

Already Gone- Kelly Clarkson

Original Picture. Send Me the Moon by Sara Bareilles

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Original Picture.

Send Me the Moon by Sara Bareilles

"There’s a part of me that wants to let him in but then I feel myself put this wall up and I..."

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:57:53 -0700

“There’s a part of me that wants to let him in but then I feel myself put this wall up and I don’t understand why. Maybe that’s what strikes me most about Kostas: that despite everything he’s suffered he can still look at life in the most uncomplicated way. I’ve never known that kind of faith. It makes me so sad that people like Kostas and Bridget who have lost everything can still be open to love… while I, who have lost nothing, am not.”

- Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

"Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never try to trim..."

Tue, 05 May 2009 23:19:22 -0700

“Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, Every story we’re told implores us to wait for it, the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we’re so focused on finding our happy ending we don’t learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don’t, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn’t include a guy, maybe… it’s you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is… just… moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope.”

- He’s Just Not That Into You (via filmquotes)