i think a lot of people in their 20s or younger who think it’s too late to transition or start hrt would benefit enormously from taking a long hard look at their internalized transphobia.

yes, you may have gone through puberty already and need to do more work to achieve your goals than someone who got on puberty blockers and started much earlier. and being afraid of never achieving your goals is a valid and incredibly normal fear.

but transition is so much more than just taking hrt and looking the way you want to. it’s about learning who you are and how you want to express yourself. it’s about unlearning shame and finding joy in the forbidden. it’s about the journey. a slow, painstaking, lifelong journey, filled with unexpected turns every step of the way. and it is infinitely more satisfying than living in fear of what may never come.

it is never too late to transition because it is never too late to start loving yourself.

Source: Women Together; Portraits of Love, Commitment, and Life - Essays by Mona Holmlund , Photography by Cyndy Warwick

If you’re able to ask the question “what if I have body dysmorphia?” in response to my claim that no one needs to or should call themselves fat in pejorative way when they are not in fact fat, then you’re already acknowledging that you don’t belong to the class of people who are fat and who experience all the attendant abuses and discrimination. You know, at least in this moment, that what you have is a mental disorder, not a fat body. So I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest that you practice saying “my body dysmorphia is really bad right now” instead of “I’m so fat.” You’ve already proven you can do it—the question is whether you care enough about other people to stop saying that their bodies are your living nightmare

Beth Ditto for ES Magazine, Feb 2024 📸: Tim Walker

very upsetting that as a society thighs and tummies have been demonized. like they are literally just body parts and if they’re a little rounder it’s no big deal. beauty standards = pure embodiment of evil in this world

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just a reminder to COMPLETELY boycott Eurovision this year; Azerbaijan and Israel, despite committing genocide, are STILL allowed to compete & have NOT been banned. by refusing to ban both countries, Eurovision is profiting off of the genocide of Palestinians and Armenians.

do not listen to the artists. do not pirate or stream the artists' music, and this applies to ALL the artists who are competing and performing this year. do not listen to the songs on ANY platform, do not give them ANY attention.

write to your broadcasters and tell them you REFUSE to watch the channels until they recognise the Armenian and Palestinian genocides & that you find it disgusting how they are allowing Eurovision despite Azerbaijan and Israel's entries.

do NOT give eurovision OR the competing artists ANYTHING but silence.

boycott ALL of eurovision.

so many queer ppl will be like "deviating from social norms is part of who we are" and then gleefully participate in fatphobia/diet culture and nearly make being skinny an entire ideology and identity

A belly can be a "slut waist" too. If you're not a fearful little freak

i go through all the dove pink ballet Audrey Hepburn-worshipping blogs and gleefully scroll past the thin white women 95 times out of 100. i hope more of you learn that there’s more to life, more to beauty than Lily rose depp or Ariana grande. i hope you broaden your aesthetic horizons and show up for bodies that look different.

“testosterone will make you fat and hairy!!!” PROMISE?!?!??😍😍😍🤤🤤🤤😍😍😍

butches with crow’s feet i love you. butches with arm hair i love you. butches with mustaches i love you. butches with gray hair i love you. butches with big arms i love you. butches with thick thighs i love you. butches with wiry frames i love you. butches with bushy eyebrows i love you. butches with soft tummies i love you. butches with chubby cheeks i love you. butches with thin lips i love you. butches with small hands i love you. butches with broad shoulders i love you. butches with wrinkles i love you. butches with stretch marks i love you. butches with scars i love you. butches who think you aren't perfect i love you and you are.

beautiful fat bitches everywhere

I don't know what that person was interviewing for but I hope they got it, because bullseye.

the ideal and over emphasis of pale skinny heroin chic femininity (and also that particular brand of enbyism) is a product of racist&facist misogyny.

this is just my opinion, but IF you unable to or struggle to find beauty in fat people, or black people, or women with penises, and more specifically my point: people outside colonistic ideals, its probably because you have been conditioned, all the way down to your instincts, to at very least see these people as ugly, and at worst, to not even see these people as people.. no one will really fault you for having particular tastes, but if you do feel that way about sex and beauty, i personally think its pretty cringe and your "suburban schema" of people and the world fucking sucks. i dont have an elegant solution to your "problem", figure it out, stop being a conformist, stop seeing the world how racists & facists want you to see it, look outside of your idyllic walled garden, stop seeing sex as a commodity and people as objects

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Some relevant movies and tv shows that should be boycotted:

Stranger Things: Noah Schnapp claimed zionism is sexy and Hamas is ISIS and liked videos on twitter mocking Palestinian people; actor Brett Gelman and producer Shawn Levy are zionists and both support Schnapp

The Last Of Us: israeli politics in The Last Of Us Part 2; Neil Druckmann openly supports israel

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Rick Riordan, the author of the books has made zionist comments neutral to Israel and the genocide

The Umbrella Academy: Aidan Gallagher openly supported Israel on instagram with a post "I stand with Israel", post is now deleted

Deadpool 3: Shawn Levy, the director of the movie is a zionist

Dune 2: Timothee Chalamet made a joke on SNL about the genocide in Palestine

Any Disney movies and shows including Inside Out 2, PJO, The Eras Tour movie, Moana 2, Marvel content: Disney is funding Israel, it has been announced that a new Israeli superhero will be joining the MCU

If you support Palestine, boycott zionist companies and stop funding them. Besides, there are many ways to watch the newest movies without paying a cent.

Please feel free to add more movies and shows with source links! 🍉

In addition, here are some other useful links:

Palestine Google docs masterlist

Poems for Palestine Chapbook Launch

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