Today I Learned That In The First Olympics That Had Women’s Weightlifting, The United States Weightlifter

There are other women like you. There are other women who think the way you think, who feel the way you feel, who act the way you act. There always have been and there always will be. Womanhood isn’t whatever shallow archetype the world has tried to convince you that it is. It’s going to be okay.

💐 Garden/floral radfem aesthetic 💐

i love women. in the feminist way and in the gay way. happy international women’s day

Photograph of the Orion Nebula from 1901 and 2015

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This is Omega Centauri - the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way! 🌟🌟🌟

It has nearly 10 million stars and some scientists believe that it may have formed as a remnant of a disrupted dwarf galaxy! Strange… 🤔🤔🤔

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile One telescope on August 11th, 2020 at 00:07 UTC.

About femininity

Sometimes I think that I don’t fit in. I remember those girls in male-written fiction who are always feminine, humble, quiet, enigmatic etc etc, and I compare myself to them. In those moments, I feel shame for being myself. I think, why am I so loud? Why so straightforward? Why can’t I be more like them? Why is it so hard for me to be lady-like? I could be if I try hard enough!

But then, I think about real life women: my friends, my sisters, my mother. And I remember that they are all just like me. Some of them have short hair. Some of them are not afraid to fill the room with their laughter or burp out loud. Some of them don’t know what a concealer is. Most of them excel in typically “male” fields. Almost all of them never wear skirts. And even those who seem to be the epitome of femininity change make-up and restrictive clothes to comfy pyjamas at the end of the day.

Femininity is an act, it’s a perfomance. And none of us entirely fit in this box. Its only purpose is to divide and control us. So don’t fall for this “not like other girls” bullshit. If you feel dysphoric, talk about it with other women, compare expirience. It’s not any different from overcoming social anxiety, when you have to realise that everybody sometimes feel insecure. In this case, you just need to realise that every woman is a complex human being, just like yourself.

Inside the underground subculture of female korean tattoo artists

- Lyuhwa