icon: "bodylove -- me (belly goddex)" (my bare belly and breasts covered in colorful washable marker drawings with spirals on my breasts and a butterfly over my belly button)"My g-cup boobs are not feminine and do not become so when I put them in a bra. My wide hips are not feminine and do not become so when I put on a skirt. My body hair is not ( Read more... )

Content note / trigger warning: eating disorders, restriction dieting, weight loss, fatness

Restriction dieting is an utter failure and we need to stop.

Failure #1: it does not reduce weight/fat significantly
Caloric restriction fails to create significant weight loss for most people and we have known this since the 50s. Numbers vary but most ( Read more... )

icon: "eccentric (a photo of me tilting my head and with raised eyebrows and a pursed-lipped smile)"There are some human features that capture me aesthetically every time. This has no effect on me romantically or sexually but I find many aspects of humans very visually appealing. I just enjoy looking at people. If I have ever stared at you, I'm ( Read more... )

icon: "antagonistic (a photo of me in cat-eye makeup with violet hair, snarling with bared teeth and staring intensely into the camera)"Content note: gendered assumptions about body parts ( Read more... )

icon: "bodylove -- me (belly goddess)" (my bare belly and breasts covered in colorful washable marker drawings with spirals on my breasts and a butterfly over my belly button)"I keep thinking about the ways that stranger kindness and friendliness is reserved for those who are ( Read more... )

icon: "antagonistic (a photo of me in cat-eye makeup with violet hair, snarling with bared teeth and staring intensely into the camera)"If I never hear breasts referred to as perky again, it will be too soon. They can't be perky because they are not sentient. Calling them perky is a groveling bow to misogyny because that's what endowed them with ( Read more... )

icon: "revolutionary (a gif series of four nude self-portraits of/by me: one from the back with me looking over my shoulder, one from the front with my arms up and arched, one with an upraised, arched arm and the other arm across my belly in a dance pose, and one from the side with both hands raised in a shrug gesture)"Mild spoilers ahead for " ( Read more... )

icon: "bodylove -- me (belly goddess)" (my bare belly and breasts covered in colorful washable marker drawings with spirals on my breasts and a butterfly over my belly button)"Holy fuck the 4th episode of Shrill had me absolutely sobbing with joy. Bodies that look like mine, dancing and swimming and just happily existing in bathing suits and not a ( Read more... )

icon: "revolutionary (a gif series of four nude self-portraits of/by me: one from the back with me looking over my shoulder, one from the front with my arms up and arched, one with an upraised, arched arm and the other arm across my belly in a dance pose, and one from the side with both hands raised in a shrug gesture)"

[recent gender ramblings that I posted on fb]I feel like everyone who ( Read more... )

icon: "bloodcurdling (photo of me w wide-eyed snarling wild expression wearing "Red Queen" makeup: searingly red lips, darkened pointed eyebrows, black eyeliner, deep red & black eyeshadow accented with gold & silver, and black-outlined silver hearts & diamonds with red shadows on my cheeks)"Every time I go to the gym, I am by far the fattest femme ( Read more... )