I Know This Is A Hard To Swallow Pill But Patriarchy Does Not Care Why You Perform Femininity, Who You

Leveling up lately & pretty proud of how far I’ve come. Hit 225lbs on squats, 8 reps. Feels good, so good in fact that after squatting I might have irritated a sciatic nerve in my left 🍑 cheek 😂 Going to give it a good foam rolling tonight 😜 Thank you to my #beastlybadass 😈@summerbodefit for spotting me & @starrinac for 🎬🎥 #legs #legday #squats #pr #225 #lift #lifter #lifting #liftheavy #girlswholift #femalelifter #barbellbabes #barbelllesbians #fitfam #fitfemale #fitspo #powerlifting #bodybuilding #bootybuilding #musclenation #squatgram #AssisSore #lezbfit 💪🏼🍑🔑 (at LA Fitness)

It’s been hard for me to be in my body lately. It keeps feeling like I don’t know what I’m capable of, which makes me feel strange and alien and displaced.

Today my love told me to do some flexing, and she took these photos. She told me that she wanted me to see myself the way she sees me. I’ve never felt so loved and cared for and understood in my whole life.

Dropping some unneeded body fat and building muscle 💪🏻

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.

Habit shifts - List

- practical actions that can be taken to fight internalized misogyny

#1 - Stop shaving

#2 - Switch to the woman-made alternative

#3 - Sensible shoes

#4 - Embrace your period

#5 - Burn the bra

#6 - Let your inner “old spinster” shine

#7 - Look at your body

#8 - We are women

#9 - Praise the mustache

#10 - Food is not the enemy

#11 - Dump him

#12 - You too can kill god

#13 - No is a full sentence

#14 - Live make-up free

#15 - Be loud

#16 - Touch yourself

#17 - Do you need a partner?

#18 - Trim your nails

#19 - Name it.

#20 - Cultivate your strength.

Note that this list is permanently evolving, so you can check it periodically here to see the updates.

leg hair positivity post!

so I decided to make a post of women sharing their grown out leg hair. reblog this with a picture! (it can be of any part of your leg)

here's mine:

keep it going!

“Big Clit Energy” in multiple colors

Let me describe to you what kind of world gender abolitionists actually dream about: When a child would be born it’s biological sex, being an actual physical reality, would be noticed but not a single assumption regarding the child’s personality would be made based on it. Growing up, children would be free to chose what toys and clothes they prefer. If they want to play with toy trucks or dolls, it would be fine either way. If they want to dress comfortably or in frilly colorful dresses, it would be fine. Certain personality traits would not be encouraged in members of one sex and discouraged in the other. Females would be free to be strong, brave and assertive and males would not be shamed for being shy and soft spoken. No female child would be called a tomboy and no male child would be called a sissy. No kid would ever be bullied for what we in our gendered world call “gender expression”. When children would reach puberty they would still be free to dress how they want. Females would not be pressured to wear clothes that reveal their bodies and males would not be shamed if they chose to. Everybody would have a free choice of accessories, which would not be categorized as “men’s” or “women’s” but people could should whichever they liked. Or chose to not wear accessories at all if that’s what they are more comfortable with. Females would not be pressured to keep their bodies slim, soft and hairless. Males would not be pressured to be athletic and muscular. Expectations of femininity and masculinity upon the body would not exist and affect negatively people’s relationship with their own body. Everyone could choose a career without fearing stigmatization within that particular field because of their biological sex. The most important thing would be competence and not what someone has between their legs. Domestic work would not be considered “women’s work” and would be shared equally between the sexes. Biological sex would only be thought about when relevant. And everyone would be free to be themselves without ever having to worry about gender expectations. Nobody would feel the need to repress certain parts of their personality and exaggerate others in order to fit into some gender role that is being forced on them. Gender abolitionism is not about restricting people’s choices but about giving them greater freedom. - http://burningax.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/a-gender-free-world-boring/

Medieval Girlfriends random doodles

Feeling blue by Hubble Space Telescope / ESA