Learning Social Work

Things I learn while learning how to be a social worker.

lacigreen:

erosum:

Laci Green: I have three proposals to work against weight discrimination, fat shame, and fat phobia. 1: “fat” isn’t a bad word, 2: it’s not about “health,” 3: love thyself.

(full video on tumblr & youtube)

If you need any proof, just look at the comment section…

(thanks for the gif set schweetie! <3)

(via kapeeshganesh)

blitz-is-taking-flight:

Exactly

Feeling the need to negatively and publicly comment on someone else&#8217;s life, which doesn&#8217;t effect your life one way or another means you spend way too much time thinking about homosexuality.   &#8220;Hey, I just don&#8217;t agree with it&#8221; or &#8220;Hate the sin, not the sinner.&#8221;  Why do you need to hate anything?   Why do I need your agreement for the way God made me?  I don&#8217;t care about you or your opinions, get out of my vagina.  I have never felt the need to climb up on a soap box and announce my agreement or disagreement with heterosexuality. 

blitz-is-taking-flight:

Exactly


Feeling the need to negatively and publicly comment on someone else’s life, which doesn’t effect your life one way or another means you spend way too much time thinking about homosexuality.   “Hey, I just don’t agree with it” or “Hate the sin, not the sinner.”  Why do you need to hate anything?   Why do I need your agreement for the way God made me?  I don’t care about you or your opinions, get out of my vagina.  I have never felt the need to climb up on a soap box and announce my agreement or disagreement with heterosexuality. 

keepcalm-countcalories:

This is my best friend, Berlina.
Since kindergarten, she’s been bullied over her weight. She’s had health complications because of it. She’s changed schools because of it. And when I met her in year 7, she was still so bubbly, so full of life, you’d never believe that someone this strong was hiding so much pain. 
She’s always been there for me as a friend. Last year, she sat by my hospital bedside for hours and hours and hours after my overdose. She literally wouldn’t leave until the nurses forced everyone out. And the sacrifices she’s made for not only me but all of my friends amazes me, because she’s taken on everyone else’s pain as well as her own. 
Recently, she’s been through a lot. It’s our final year of high school and all our teachers are harassing her for ‘not putting enough effort into her studies’ despite the fact that she’s not going for an ATAR (final exam rank). She cuts the words fat and ugly into her arm. She’s dealt with death threats from one of her ex best friends. She’s had guys treat her like shit and been called a slut and a fat bitch. And so she’s starting to believe it.
Please, please reblog this if you think Berlina is beautiful, inside and out. Reblog if you have a friend who’s amazing who you want to tell all of tumblr about. 
Reblog because no one so good should feel so bad that they want to end their own life.

keepcalm-countcalories:

This is my best friend, Berlina.


Since kindergarten, she’s been bullied over her weight. She’s had health complications because of it. She’s changed schools because of it. And when I met her in year 7, she was still so bubbly, so full of life, you’d never believe that someone this strong was hiding so much pain. 

She’s always been there for me as a friend. Last year, she sat by my hospital bedside for hours and hours and hours after my overdose. She literally wouldn’t leave until the nurses forced everyone out. And the sacrifices she’s made for not only me but all of my friends amazes me, because she’s taken on everyone else’s pain as well as her own. 

Recently, she’s been through a lot. It’s our final year of high school and all our teachers are harassing her for ‘not putting enough effort into her studies’ despite the fact that she’s not going for an ATAR (final exam rank). She cuts the words fat and ugly into her arm. She’s dealt with death threats from one of her ex best friends. She’s had guys treat her like shit and been called a slut and a fat bitch. And so she’s starting to believe it.

Please, please reblog this if you think Berlina is beautiful, inside and out. Reblog if you have a friend who’s amazing who you want to tell all of tumblr about. 

Reblog because no one so good should feel so bad that they want to end their own life.

(via monbeauprince)

&#8220;Even when I look a mess,I still don&#8217;t like me any less,&#8216;cause nothing in this world, you know,can change what&#8217;s deep inside, and so&#8230;&#8221;&#8220;Inside, outside, upside down,from head to toe and all around,I like it all: It all is me:And me is all I want to be.&#8221;
This is a children&#8217;s book that every little girl or even little boy should read or have read to them. 

“Even when I look a mess,
I still don’t like me any less,
‘cause nothing in this world, you know,
can change what’s deep inside, and so…”
“Inside, outside, upside down,
from head to toe and all around,
I like it all: It all is me:
And me is all I want to be.”

This is a children’s book that every little girl or even little boy should read or have read to them.