Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset
A growth mindset will help you achieve more, according to Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck.
Challenges: embrace them
Obstacles: persist in the face of setbacks
Effort: see it as the path to mastery
Criticism: learn from them
Success of others: find lessons and inspiration in others’ success
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related to this week’s sex+ (men & femininity)
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that awkward moment when hatred is so acceptable that compassion becomes radical.
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I love these little things
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Ctenophores are the “comb jellies,” well known for their beautiful bioluminescence. They appear jellyfish-like in appearance, but lack cnidocytes, the stinging cells characteristic to Cnidarians. Instead, Ctenophores have collblasts, which are adhesive cells for capturing small prey. These colorful little guys swim by manipulating currents with their eight rows of specialized ciliated cells called ctenes (comb rows). Hence the nickname comb jellies.
“The other part of the student debt crisis is all of the debt that students aren’t taking on because they’re not going to college. College grads still earn more, work longer, and are employed at higher rates than everybody else. Their investment — that is, their debt — benefits the country at large in the form of a more-skilled workforce, higher productivity, higher GDP, more taxes, and so on. Newspapers can’t report on this part of the student debt crisis, because there is no headline statistic to report on. You can’t put a number on how much money some promising inner-city student is giving up in lifetime earnings by not attending college or how much it’s taking away from federal income taxes through 2030. But just because those statistics are invisible don’t mean they’re not real.” — Derek Thompson, on America’s trillion-dollar student debt crisis. (via theatlantic)
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I dig the colour scheme
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Spotted: An exponentially badass Indian woman with something nice in the back of her blouse. Don’t mess with her.
Salaam/Peace!
Haraam is an Arabic word used in Islam to mean “forbidden”. This project has been started as a way for LGBTQ Muslims to stand up and proclaim that we will not allow our existence as LGBTQ Muslims to be erased any longer.
We are not kafirs, we are not deviant, our existence is not a sin. This is our space to say: WE ARE NOT HARAAM.
Call for submissions
We’re calling for any Muslim who identifies as part of the LGBTQ spectrum to submit to this blog. Allies and supportive families of LGBTQ Muslims are also welcome and encouraged.
The theme for submissions is quite simply, “I am not haraam” (or “my son/daughter/lover/sibling is not haraam”).
We’d like you to share what it means for you to be an LGBTQ Muslim. You can tell us about your struggles, your everyday life, anything that makes you, you!
Submissions can take any form; text posts, audio posts, art work, poetry, video etc. You can submit by clicking here or clicking ‘submit’ on the blog.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to message the team.We look forward to hearing from you.
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“There are 1.7+ billion Muslims in the world. If Islam encourages terrorism, everyone would be dead.” — (via egyptianprincess)
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In her own words, Audre Lorde was a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Lorde began writing poetry at age 12 and published her first poem in Seventeen magazine at age 15. She helped found Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the world’s first publisher run by women of color, in 1980. Her poetry was published regularly throughout her life and she served as the State Poet of New York from 1991 to 1992. Lorde explored issues of class, race, age, sex, and – after a series of cancer diagnoses — health, as being fundamental to the female experience. She died of liver cancer in 1992.
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“Consider this: The great psychologist Carl Jung would express his condolences to patients who came to sessions with a happy and satisfied surface personality. He assured them that he would stand by them during such a dangerous and unproductive time. When these same patients came to therapy feeling anxious or depressed, he congratulated them on their good fortune of being in a condition where the soul’s work could be deeply done.” — Well-Being: How to think about psychotherapy (Newbury Port News)
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