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Beach at Sena Bay in Trinidad

National Geographic | January 1953

A Berber woman in Morocco National Geographic | January 1980

Indigenous Tasaday child scampers through the forest with ease on the Southern tip of the Philippines

National Geographic | August 1972

6/11/2020 | 52 & 53 / 101 Days of Productivity

Took a bit of a day off yesterday, desperately needed to relax after that intense slog of essays. Went on a nice beach walk and had a bonfire on the beach last night to celebrate guy fawkes, if only he could see the state of parliament today oof

“you think sex work is bad because it commodifies the body, but so does all wage labor under capitalism”. Tell me, is is just as bad for a man to force a woman to take takeout orders over the phone as it is for a man to r*pe a woman? Is it just as bad for a man to shout to a woman on the street “you look like you’re great at using excel spreadsheets, come do data entry work for me” as it is for a man to shout to her “you have big tits, come give me head” ? No obviously it’s not. Sex is inherently personal and intimate. Commodifying sex is not normal or natural.

“People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, “If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing.” I do not think that is the best way of looking at it. I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.”

— C.S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity”

Astounding landscape

Buddhist shrines in Burma

National Geographic | March 1971

When a woman is poor and hungry the humane thing to do is put food in her mouth, not your dick. Rachel Moran

Picture by Anaïs Ramos

A single shaft of sunlight breaks leaden clouds on New Zealand’s Dusky Sound

National Geographic | September 1971

Neatly spaced huts of a Mansaka barrio in the Philippines

National Geographic | August 1971