"I cannot tell you the complete, fundamental shift that I have felt in the year since having surgery. I knew that I wanted top surgery for a decade; it's the longest I've ever thought about doing anything. The place where I went, I had that clinic's website open on my laptop for five years. It was this impossible mountain: I want that, but I'm never gonna get it. No one's gonna let me, blah, blah, blah. To have that be in the past now... I stand differently, I walk differently, I carry myself differently. It feels different in my body than it ever has. I have just never been happier. I've never been more centered. I've never felt more stable and present and alive. It's the best thing I've ever done for myself. It’s taught me a lot. The recovery process taught me about rest, accepting help, and caring for my body as something connected to me rather than separate from me, that I’m in opposition to: This is mine and I want to take care of it. I feel good in it and good about it. Part of cis people's fear around gender-affirming surgery is the fear of surgery at all — 'Oh, my God, but that's painful and scary!' My reaction to that is, 'No, no, you misunderstood. It was painful before. Your worry has kicked in at the wrong time. The right time to be concerned was about the pain I was in before this. I'm great now.' Everybody else's concern for me has been on a delay. There's no need to be concerned anymore. That's so freeing."

@lgbtqcreators creator meme: [7/8] lgbtq+ celebs — LIV HEWSON

Bound 1996 | Lana & Lilly Wachowski

HOME ALONE (1990) dir. Chris Columbus

BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999) dir. Jamie Babbit

roman:

And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?

DONNIE DARKO (2001) dir. Richard Kelly

"Except for those people down there, we might be the only living creatures in the whole world."

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir

Annie Clark (St. Vincent) and Dakota Johnson in The Nowhere Inn (2020) dir. Bill Benz

THE LOVE WITCH (2016) dir. Anna Biller

Kajillionaire (2020) dir. Miranda July

What’s a bad miracle? They got a word for that? NOPE (2022) dir. Jordan Peele

You too? It’s mostly just Lotties woo-woo bullshit, listening to the trees. 

Bound 1996 | Lana & Lilly Wachowski

Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence! Very few have it in them.

BLACK SWAN (2010) dir. Darren Aronofsky

BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER 1999 ⚝ dir. Jamie Babbit

Bridesmaids (2011) dir. Paul Feig