Aja Dev

she/her - Procrastinator by day. Worrier by night.

[Aja Dev @HeyDevyDev]

My friend told me, "You like being free more than you like being loved." and I think I just learned something about myself.

[Aja Dev @HeyDevyDev]

@RunRocknRoll When do emails go out with bib numbers & pick up info?

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@DevynGwynne Sending you all the strength & good vibes I can muster!! And a hug from afar.

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https://t.co/4PmaBSmvDe

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@culturedpussy @WrittenByHanna THIS PART 👆🏽

[HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty @keyon]

You either get a loving father in this life or you get to be a good writer.

[Aja Dev @HeyDevyDev]

@BorterPawtrol @propilot123 @CNN No. Not at all.

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Let Jokic go home.

[trash jones @jzux]

ask not what your country can do for you. ask why they aren’t doing literally any of it

[Aja Dev @HeyDevyDev]

I need a horror/gothic version of Crazy Rich Asians. With an almost identical storyline but instead of someone taking their girlfriend home to a super rich family think more The Invitation or Crimson Peak type home life.

[Pootie Guiliani @Kyla_Lacey]

From Lizzo, to bonnets, to blue hair, to whatever. You are’t entitled to the way people look. The problem so many of us have is that we think people should look a way that pleases US. You don’t look good to everybody why the audacity of thinking everyone has to look good for you?

[Aja Dev @HeyDevyDev]

I got to study abroad in Barcelona this past semester and it was the stuff of dreams 🇪🇸

[Aja Dev @HeyDevyDev]

If you see this, quote and retweet your top 4 live-action Disney movies that are not remakes, Star Wars, Fox, or Marvel

[Kate Murray @katemurray]

If you see this, quote and retweet your top 4 live-action Disney movies that are not remakes, Star Wars, Fox, or Marvel.

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@BajaBlast4Eva @notgwendalupe The angry shimmy!!!!!

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Junior Bake Off is so funny because those kids drop everything on the floor, side eye the camera, then still feed it to the judges like, “5 second rule.”

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@ZakiyaNJamal AND Dirty Dancing!

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is a side by side of two women gracing the front covers of two well known magazines.

The one on the right we all know is Martha Stewart, age 81. The one on the left is Apo Whang-Od, age 106, a tribal tattooist in a remote province in the Philippines.

There seems to be an unwritten rule which equates beauty with youngness. In an interview, Martha Stewart told the reporter she credits her organic, home-grown, farm-to-table eating, yoga, and actively healthy lifestyle to her youthfulness. While that’s an admirable journey for her, let’s not forget the amount of privilege that kind of lifestyle requires.

On the left is Apo Whang-Od, who is a 106-year-old tribal tattooist in the Philippines. The wisdom she carries in every forehead wrinkle and frown line is stunning. Her eyes are glass, reflecting back all that she’s witnessed over a century of lived experiences. Her tattoos a reminder of the ancestors she seeks to honor.

Both women are beautiful in their own right. But I wish we as women didn’t play into this idea that we have to look younger—and thinner—in order to fit some unrealistic beauty standard which will grant us acceptance and relevance in the world around us.

I’m writing this for any woman who, like me, may have had a punched-gut reaction to seeing an octogenarian in a swimsuit on the cover of a magazine looking more like a woman in her forties or fifties: Anti-aging is not a beauty standard.

There IS beauty in wrinkles, and saggy skin, and drooping breasts. These are markers of a life hard fought for and well lived. It seems odd to try and erase these battle scars.

So while I applaud Martha for her fortunate body, carefully curated procedures, and pristinely styled makeup, I also applaud Whang-Od for what others may perceive as imperfections.

Anti-aging is not a beauty standard.
Authenticity is.

@ FeministNews

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Good for orcas.

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@kyrieeleison60 @PraiseTheCman They kinda did though. Just not with each other.

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After I watch anything Shonda Rhimes writes, I, myself will not write for months because why bother?

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Beating Boston twice in one day is exactly how I wanted this weekend to end. #Sixers #Phillies