A Mother-Daughter Movement That Literally Inspires The Pants Off People

I met these women about a year ago and thought they were doing radical work. I was excited to share their videos with you all, and based on how many went viral, you were excited too! Now they're kicking it up a notch, and I'm thrilled for them. See how they're turning a personal story of pain and struggle into a global movement for more healing, happiness, and freedom to let all our (so-called) freak flags fly.

 Carolyn Silveira
12.01.14

What's underneath? Here's a few answers:

Buf first, pants off!

Embrace those cellulite ankles!

Remember, you can't buy beauty at a store.

Don't lose yourself.

Being different is a good thing.

Your body is your home.

You are enough — just as you are.

We've shared some videos from the "I Am What's Underneath" campaign before. If you're interested in seeing more, meet Jillian, Meredith, and Melanie.

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A man called 911, then his 5-year-old picked up the phone. Life-saving adorableness ensued

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Brace yourselves, folks, because this is almost too friggin' adorable to handle.

A 911 call can be a scary thing, and an emergency call from a dad having chest pains and trouble breathing is no exception. But thankfully, an exchange between that dad's 5-year-old daughter and 911 dispatcher Jason Bonham turned out to be more humor than horror. If you missed hearing the recording that has repeatedly gone viral since 2010, you have to hear it now. It's perfectly timeless.

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Anyone with a slightly sick sense of humor will be enchanted by this twisted love story.

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Twitter user Matt, who goes by the name @SixthFormPoet, shared a dark love story on Twitter that's been read by nearly 600,000 people. It starts in a graveyard and feels like it could be the premise for a Tim Burton film.

While it's hard to verify whether the story is true, Matt insists that it's real, so we'll believe him.

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Two teens got called out for making a TikTok video after a car crash, but they say it helped them 'cope'

Can the teens do literally anything without being blasted? Apparently not...

Katie Cornetti and Marissa Bordas, two Pittsburgh teens, were involved in a car crash. After taking a sharp turn on a winding road, the car flipped twice, then landed on its side. The girls said later on that they weren't on their phones at the time. The cause of the crash was because the tires on Bordas' car were mounted improperly.

The girls were wearing their seatbelts and were fine, aside from a few bruises. However, they were trapped in the car for about 20 minutes, so to pass the time while they waited for help, they decided to make a TikTok video. They made sure they were totally fine before they started recording.

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Left-handed people have one advantage over right-handed counterparts, study finds

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Approximately 10% of the population is left-handed, and the balance between lefties and righties has been the same for almost 5,000 years. People used to believe that left-handed people were evil or unlucky. The word "sinister" is even derived from the Latin word for "left."

In modern times, the bias against lefties for being different is more benign – spiral notebooks are a torture device, and ink gets on their hands like a scarlet letter. Now, a new study conducted at the University of Oxford and published in Brain is giving left-handers some good news. While left-handers have been struggling with tools meant for right-handers all these years, it turns out, they actually possess superior verbal skills.

Researchers looked at the DNA of 400,000 people in the U.K. from a volunteer bank. Of those 400,000 people, 38,332 were southpaws. Scientists were able to find the differences in genes between lefties and righties, and that these genetic variants resulted in a difference in brain structure, too. "It tells us for the first time that handedness has a genetic component," Gwenaëlle Douaud, joint senior author of the study and a fellow at Oxford's Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, told the BBC.

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