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Take me back to Enchanted in the rain 😭

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Anyone know when VIP tickets go standard?

I’m looking at the Sunday night Metlife show and the VIP tickets are almost all unsold. Is it worth it to wait or should I just grab something now?

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Anyone know when VIP tickets go standard?

I’m looking at the Sunday night Metlife show and the VIP tickets are almost all unsold. Is it worth it to wait or should I just grab something now?

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So like, what’s going on with most of these front floor tickets? They weren’t available for the VF pre-sale or the general sale. I know a few people who got tickets there, but they even said they weren’t very far up. 

Very very confused. 

#taylor swift #tickets

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@taylorswift

The Trick To Holding On is all of us.

For the past 8 months or so I’ve completely walked away from bad friendships, poor diet choices and intense criticism from my family and friends. All because I realized the life I was living was not the one that I wanted. 

To have Taylor say “the trick to holding on was all that letting go”…It just, honestly made me realized that’s what saved my life. Letting go of people and things that weren’t good for me was game-changing.

It freed up my time. 

It made my panic attacks go away. 

It relieved the constant pressure it put on myself. 

It made the relationships I have with the people I choose to keep in my life stronger than I could’ve ever imagined. I’m so happy to say I love my job, the company I keep and the way I spend my time each and every day. 

Is everything perfect? No. 

But I know that by prioritizing what I want and letting go of the unnecessary, I get to live my life on my terms. 

And I hope you all do too. If not for me, then for Taylor. 

YOU deserve that.

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The Trick To Holding On is all of us.

For the past 8 months or so I’ve completely walked away from bad friendships, poor diet choices and intense criticism from my family and friends. All because I realized the life I was living was not the one that I wanted. 

To have Taylor say “the trick to holding on was all that letting go”…It just, honestly made me realized that’s what saved my life. Letting go of people and things that weren’t good for me was game-changing.

It freed up my time. 

It made my panic attacks go away. 

It relieved the constant pressure it put on myself. 

It made the relationships I have with the people I choose to keep in my life stronger than I could’ve ever imagined. I’m so happy to say I love my job, the company I keep and the way I spend my time each and every day. 

Is everything perfect? No. 

But I know that by prioritizing what I want and letting go of the unnecessary, I get to live my life on my terms. 

And I hope you all do too. If not for me, then for Taylor. 

YOU deserve that.

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“You might be made to feel like you’re overreacting, because society has made this stuff seem so casual. My advice is that you not blame yourself and do not accept the blame others will try to place on you. You should not be blamed for waiting 15 minutes or 15 days or 15 years to report sexual assault or harassment, or for the outcome of what happens to a person after he or she makes the choice to sexually harass or assault you.” -Taylor Swift

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It honestly makes me so sad that Twitter is such a hostile environment that some of y’all and Taylor can’t hang out there. 

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The Trick To Holding On is all of us.

For the past 8 months or so I’ve completely walked away from bad friendships, poor diet choices and intense criticism from my family and friends. All because I realized the life I was living was not the one that I wanted. 

To have Taylor say “the trick to holding on was all that letting go”...It just, honestly made me realized that’s what saved my life. Letting go of people and things that weren’t good for me was game-changing.

It freed up my time. 

It made my panic attacks go away. 

It relieved the constant pressure it put on myself. 

It made the relationships I have with the people I choose to keep in my life stronger than I could’ve ever imagined. I’m so happy to say I love my job, the company I keep and the way I spend my time each and every day. 

Is everything perfect? No. 

But I know that by prioritizing what I want and letting go of the unnecessary, I get to live my life on my terms. 

And I hope you all do too. If not for me, then for Taylor. 

YOU deserve that.

#Taylor Swift #taylornation #Swifties

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I just...

I’m speechless

When you criticize Taylor Swift being a silence breaker on the cover of Time magazine, you are minimizing my sexual assault.

When you criticize Taylor Swift being a silence breaker on the cover of Time magazine, you are minimizing my sexual assault.

It’s sick that the trauma I experienced from my assault was more from dealing with the aftermath than the actual assault itself. A classmate (who I had issues with) walked up to me and grabbed my breast and then patted it a few times before saying “just wanted to see if your sweatshirt was as soft as it looked” and then walked off. In that moment I was frozen. I had always imagined that if something ever happened to me, I would make a scene. I would yell. I would draw attention. But I sat frozen in shock. I was in a full classroom but no one seemed to have noticed. I finally said something to a friend and she nervously chuckled (she would later tell me I was overreacting and that it wasn’t assault). As I sat in class my anger grew. I went home that evening and felt sick and so upset. The next day I reported what happened to my program directors. They proceeded to tell me that they would set up a meeting between the two of us and I could tell him what he did was wrong. They wanted me to face him - and they would just sit back and not do anything. I was furious. And so upset. They were going to let him just get away with it. So I went to the police. When taking down my statement, one policeman was so outraged about what had happened and how my program directors had reacted that he became visibly angry with his face turning red. He turned to my father who came with me as moral support and said “I have a daughter. I can’t imagine how angry you are right now”. They asked me if I wanted to press charges, and I did - although I knew nothing would come of it. They asked if anyone could backup my story. I told them about the friend I had told.

When I walked into class the next day, I was shaking and terrified. The police were there and told me they had spoken to my friend and that she said nothing happened and that I never told her anything. They told me the guy denied it. They told me they would follow up with me. They never did.

I walked back into the classroom with all eyes on me. My group of friends stared at me with disgust. They proceeded to ask me why I would go to the police. They told me it wasn’t assault or harassment. They told me I was overreacting. They told me that at least I wasn’t raped. They laughed at me. And then they went silent. And never spoke one word to me ever again. Few people did. I sat in that classroom with tears streaming down my face. I tried to catch them all with my sleeve to hide my pain so I wouldn’t seem weak. And I just heard the words in my head repeat “this is why women don’t report it. This is why”.

In the years that followed, I didn’t realize how much that experience affected me beyond the obvious. I still knew what happened to me was assault and wrong. But I found myself being silent about it. Or if I spoke saying “well it’s not that bad” or “I shouldn’t speak since I was only assaulted and not raped”. The words that were said to me, became my reality.

I remember when I heard about what happened to Taylor. I felt sick for her. I knew how violating that felt. And then when I heard about her having to go to court, I felt even worse for her. The questions she and her family were subjected to were disgusting. They way so many in the media and on social media said she was overreacting to being groped, brought it all back to me. But Taylor stayed poised. And took it to them while on the stand.

When Taylor won her countersuit, I cried. Because for the first time, my assault had been legitimized. For once I had something over the people who told me that I was overreacting and that “it wasn’t like you were raped or anything”. The people who abandoned me. The people who left me crying in a classroom thinking in my head “this is why people don’t report sexual assault and rape”.

Taylor has always meant so much to me. But this was more. Because of her, I felt like I was legitimate. That I had been correct. That I had done the right thing. She made me feel vindicated and free.

When I woke up this morning to the news of the Time Person Of The Year being the silence breakers, I had chills. Finally women are being believed. And when I saw Taylor on the cover and read her article, I cried again but I also smiled because this was progress.

I then made the mistake of going on twitter and seeing the backlash. And I felt sick and heartbroken. And downright angry. Yes there are others who deserved to be on the cover, but this isn’t about who’s story is better or who is more famous or anything. This is about our stories and the awful things that have happened to us. I saw Taylor criticized for her words, when those same people were shaming her last week for not tweeting about #MeToo. I saw people attacking Taylor for every reason, as if something you don’t like about her is a reason to not understand or believe her story. And worst of all, I saw people saying that she wasn’t assaulted. That she was just groped and needed to get over it. And then all those feelings came back. Because you see, these people may think they are criticizing Taylor but they are also attacking people like me.

You don’t get to pick and choose which victims you believe because of which celebrities you like. You don’t get to pick and choose which victims you believe because some assaults are more severe than others. And you don’t get to criticize a person who is bravely sharing their story and then praise others. That’s not how it works. Things only start to change when we all stand together.

Thank you Taylor for helping me through my assault. And Congratulations. You deserve that cover just as much as everyone else. ❤️

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Taylor noticed you? 

Can’t relate 

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“taking back the narrative” is this era’s “she found herself”, pass it on.

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I just flat-out cried this morning. There have been so many women I know who have felt more confident to come forward after Taylor did. It doesn’t matter how many people dislike her for their ridiculous personal opinions. She made a huge difference. 

Powerful.

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Let go of the ones who hurt you Let go of the ones you outgrow Let go of the words they hurl your way as you’re walking out the door The only thing cut and dry In this hedge-maze life Is the fact that their words will cut but your tears will dry They don’t tell you this when you are young You can’t hold on to everything Can’t show up for everyone You pick your poison Or your cure Phone numbers you know by heart And the ones you don’t answer any more Hold on to the faint recognition in the eye of a stranger As it catches you in its lustrous net How quickly we become intertwined How wonderful it is to forget All the times your intuition failed you But it hasn’t killed you yet Hold on to childlike whims and moonlight swims and your blazing self-respect And if you drive the roads of this town Ones you’ve gone down so many times before Flashback to all the times Life nearly ran you off the road But tonight your hand is steady Suddenly you’ll know The trick to holding on Was all that letting go

“The Trick to Letting Go” by Taylor Swift for Vogue (x)

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Erin got me a birthday present that made me SOB how’s your day going

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Before the Harvey Weinstein allegations broke, and before #MeToo swept the Internet, Taylor Swift testified in court on Aug. 10 about being assaulted in a room full of people. Swift, who TIME recognized as one of the Silence Breakers who inspired women to speak out about harassment in this year’s Person of the Year issue, granted TIME her first interview since the trial.

In 2013, the singer-songwriter took a photo with a Colorado radio DJ after an interview. During that photo, Swift says, DJ David Mueller reached under her skirt and grabbed her rear end. Swift privately reported the incident to the station at which Mueller worked, and he was fired. Mueller then sued Swift for defamation; she countersued for a symbolic $1—and won.

Swift refused to be bullied on the stand. Her straightforward testimony was lauded by many for its fierceness. When asked why the pictures taken during the assault didn’t show the front of her skirt wrinkled as evidence of any wrongdoing, she said simply, “Because my ass is located at the back of my body.” When asked if she felt guilty about Mueller losing his job, she said, “I’m not going to let you or your client make me feel in any way that this is my fault. Here we are years later, and I’m being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are the product of his decisions—not mine.”

Like many of the women interviewed for the 2017 Person of the Year issue, Swift would not accept blame for the abuse she experienced. Her clear-eyed testimony marked one of several major milestones in the conversation around sexual harassment this year. Swift responded to questions about her experience from TIME in writing.

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Can anyone explain why the first 40 rows or so of the Floor aren’t available for purchase? I saw some of the first people registering for it say it initially so I know they weren’t bought by anyone. 

What is going on?