nyxs-knight
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“We/Us is an intergenerational photography and oral history project that celebrates the undocumented presence of Butches and Studs from working-class backgrounds within the British landscape.” - by Roman Manfredi, 2023
I’ve heard that a day without them is like a day without sunshine 🌻
Instead of going “I can’t do that, it’ll ruin my makeup” go wash your makeup off. Instead of going “I can’t, it’ll ruin my clothes” change into something comfortable and practical that can handle a couple spots. Instead of going “no, I can’t walk that far in heels” change into practical shoes. Instead of going “I can’t, I haven’t shaved” remember that nobody but yourself is going to notice a little leg fluff. Instead of going “no, it’ll ruin my hair” just let it ruin your hair and laugh it off. Don’t let the prison of femininity get in the way of having fun and experiencing something new.
Tip for my followers:
If you want the large pockets of men's pants, but think you're too curvy to fit into regular men's jeans, try looking into men's joggers instead. They're wider in the hips, have the pockets you're looking for, and still come in all different types: jeans, cargos, chinos, sweats, etc to suit your style/needs.
Hope this helps someone :)
feeling good, feeling natural, feeling free (pt. 2)
TIG NOTARO as MARIANNE PETERS Army of the Dead (2021) dir. Zack Snyder
Dark space stimboard for @frankiesscottage
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The way I see it, whenever I get nasty looks for my body hair (from other women) I just think to myself, one day they're going to forget or they'll be drained, or they're in a rush to go somewhere, or whatever have you, and they're gonna be tired and they're still going to want to shave. And I like to think that if they don't shave for whatever reason that day, maybe they'll think of that girl that didn't try at all, and they'll feel more comfortable. Whenever I use to see women unshaved, I first judged, and then I would feel envious. Like, how does she not care? How does she not want to hide? But those women eventually gave the courage to give up shaving as well. And I feel so much better for it. I use to think I was trans, but ever since I let myself be human and natural a lot of my dysphoria went away- bc I was human, for once. I think you letting your natural hair grow can only positively effect the world ❤️
i’m not crying, you’re crying
a lot of detrans women seem to very quickly be bombarded with questions about what they're going to do to look more feminine again...seems kinda fucked up.
like a community of women isolated and alienated as a result of gender roles (among other issues but that's the key one here) and we're just gonna chuck a couple more gendered expectations at them?
people asking if detrans women will get reconstructive surgery or laser hair removal, offering them make-up tips or talking about reclaiming femininity...it really seems like the opposite of the unconditional acceptance detrans women need.
(i'm talking about this from the perspective that pushing femininity onto ANY woman is inherently harmful, rather than a detrans position. but another harm caused by this is of course that detrans narratives are being pushed into another box. no two detrans women have the same experiences, positive and/or negative, with transition; or relationships with their bodies. women can absolutely love their post-transition bodies, or have mixed feelings or feelings completely unrelated to transition or just feel completely neutral about their appearance. but whatever the needs and motivations of individual women, femininity is harmful to its core and shouldn't be encouraged as a "counter" to transition in any way.)
bottom line is, (de)trans women don't become more or less female at any step along their (de)transition. they are and were women all along because womanhood is not an identity, it's just female reality.
hello….. i’m a bit nervous because i’ve never really interacted with radfems as a dysphoric person before but i would just like to reach out for some help, if at all possible. to the dysphoric/detransitioned radfems: what are some things that helped you cope with your dysphoria? i’ve been really starting to question wether or not transitioning is something i want to do, and i’m trying to consider ways of dealing with dysphoria through other means before going down that path. anything at all helps, thank you.
if you’re butch in public you’re showing kids what kind of woman they can be. you’re a marvel and an open door. you are something they might have thought was impossible. you are the proof little butch girls need that they can exist grown up and happy and handsome without changing a single thing
My tip is to stop using the word dysphoria as an umbrella term for all of your discomfort and instead break down all of your symptoms and work on each of those separately. Ex: "the idea of people seeing me as a woman makes me dysphoric -> feel anxious" (then look up ways to handle anxiety), "seeing my breasts makes me dysphoric -> want to rip them off (or something similar)" (look into ways to combat thoughts of self harm, for example I started drawing on myself with markers to give me something else to look at), "I associate women with feminity, so identifying as a woman makes me dysphoric -> feel like I don't belong" (work on changing your mental definition of a woman, I did this both by unfollowing almost all of the feminine women on my social media and replacing them with other gnc women (this doesn't have to be a permanent change if you don't want it to, do what works best for you) and by writing my own stories where women were represented the way I wanted to be seen (I did this because I found it really difficult to find media like that already made))
Dysphoric radfems sound off with tips on how you deal with it
This is Betelgeuse! ✨✨✨
As the tenth brightest star and the second brightest in the Orion constellation after Rigel, Betelgeuse is one of the most visible stars in the night sky. In late 2019, Betelgeuse dimmed the most it had in centuries and scientists thought it was going to go supernova. Turns out it was probably just a dust cloud! 💫💫💫
Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on March 21st, 2021 at 20:41 UTC.
another old lino print that I made and forgot to post on here
Hello Lovelies!
Today is apparently Detrans Day of Visibility so here’s a post from yours truly, A detransitioned/reidentified lesbian!
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i love women. in the feminist way and in the gay way. happy international women’s day
