American-born driver Kay Petre, 1924 Delage, 10.5 litre V12-engined Land Speed Record car, Brooklands. Kay had large wooden blocks strapped to the pedals to allow her to operate them. In 1935 she took the Ladies Land Speed Record at 134.75mph in the car.

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I saw a post saying "If porn and prostitution were empowering men would be doing it" and while I absolutely agree I would add:

"If porn and prostitution were empowering men would be fighting to prevent women from doing it at all"

hate to say it, but part of ending the stigma around sexual assault means not assuming every woman blames herself. yes, female socialization encourages it, but that doesn’t make it a given, and the goal of all of these campaigns is to eventually diminish the proportion of women who do blame themselves. it is entirely possible, and increasingly common, for women to experience sexual assault and not feel shame or guilt, which we should be happy about. but instead, there are only so many times you can hear “you know it’s not your fault, right?” before it sounds like “it was your fault”. and there’s only so many times you can hear “don’t blame yourself” before it sounds like “you should blame yourself”. because it feels good to say, doesn’t it? sure, you don’t believe she’s guilty, but you do believe she should feel guilty, so that you can disabuse her of the notion. just something to consider.

you're the one - p.b

☺︎ paige bueckers ☺︎ ☺︎ mini series: part two ☺︎

It had been a whole eight months since Maia had last seen Paige. She missed her like crazy, but she knew how focused the two of them got during the season. Maia had a two-week break before March Madness practices would start.

It wasn't like they didn't talk at all, but it was more like once a month with just a ''how are you'' and ''I miss you''. It wasn't any easier for Paige. She also missed her best friend, but she blamed herself for their distance. She got so engulfed with new people and surroundings she forgot that her person was still out there.

She thought that it was too late to even text how they used to because she knew that Maia found new people. Which was somewhat true, but Maia stayed up late at night even after games to see if she would a call or a text from Paige.

The call never came until one night it went through. "Paige?" Maia spoke half asleep answering her ringing phone. "Yes and no. I'm Nika. Paige's teammate. She is a little drunk and keeps asking for you" Nika spoke shuffling around in the background.

"Um, yeah yeah. Give her the phone please"

"If it isn't Maia Renee Brown I don't want to talk to them" Paige slurred laying her head on the pillow. Maia laughed at her drunk friend and heard Nika talking to her.

"Maia?"

"Hi baby" Maia smiled turning on her bedside lamp. "Maia it is actually you, Nika get out" Paige pushed Nika out closing the door behind her. "I miss you so much, I'm sorry I got so busy. I want to kiss you and cuddle and go on a walk with you. Show you Storrs. Let you meet all of my teammates. Kiss you. Just-" Paige continued to ramble letting everything off of her chest that she's been wanting to tell Maia.

"We can do all of that later, but I think you need to go to sleep" Maia told her getting back into bed herself. "Can you talk me to sleep?" Paige mumbled slowly falling asleep. "Um. I missed you like crazy. Not a second passed when I didn't think about you. I wear one of your sweatshirts to sleep. Whenever someone asks for my number, my mind instantly goes to you and I end up saying no. I love you P. You're my best friend."

"Just best friend?"

"We can talk about that later"

"We should keep our promise this time" Paige spoke before finally drifting off to sleep.

my maia 💗: good night p... and yes we are keeping our promise this time

If you don't like

- period manners

- period fashion

- period language

THEN WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU MAKE A PERIOD DRAMA????

waiting on the corner of needington and fifth🫠

LETS GO LESBIANS!!! LETS GO!!!!

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PEDRO PASCAL | Miu Miu Women’s Tales #23: HOUSE COMES WITH A BIRD

I completely agree

at nine years old fiona was taking care of her siblings and dragging her alcoholic father in from the yard so that he wouldn’t freeze to death, at ten years old svetlana was working street corners for the pimp that her father sold her to, at eleven years old debbie was running a daycare in the summer to help out with the food and bills, at eleven years old karen’s mother stopped leaving the house

A sequel to this short comic because I have jumped into the Micolash & Maria interactions rabbit hole and I have THOUGHTS.

i wish i was your girl

you know what. i find it weird as fuck that people always assume none of the women buck dates (specifically taylor but natalia too) will never want to have children with him. i think we need to sit on why we always always use women not wanting to have children with buck as an excuse to get them out of his life. i think we also need to sit on why we use women not wanting to have children as a way to villainize them.

# Baby’s First Day of School