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Let’s Show Our Bodies Some Love!
I like my body! I may even love my body! More days than not, I look at my reflection and smile with gratitude. And this is a huge deal – because for the majority of my life, I wanted to crawl out of my own skin. It was a long and complicated process that has taken me nearly two years of hard work, but here are some of the major factors that led me to where I am today.
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Fat, Trans, and (Working on Being) Fine With It
Not only do I have to deal with the crippling dysphoria that comes from having a body that I often don’t even recognize as my own, I also have to deal with the cultural misogyny that tells me that a woman can’t be as fat as I am and still be desirable. I have to navigate this world where people either feel like my fatness is somehow hurting them or exists only to feed their fetish. And it sucks.
What to Do if Someone You Know Sexually Assaults Someone Else
In the not-so-distant past, I learned that someone I knew had sexually assaulted a former coworker of his. This man had been someone that I had trusted. Knowing or caring about someone who is a sexual predator is going to be a difficult position to be in for anyone. It can cause any number of reactions and feelings that might be unexpected. And it isn’t something that we are talking about.
Scaling Back the Anger
In this video, Margaret Kammer discusses how angry discourse can be dangerous when explaining feminist issues to curious listeners. She stresses the importance of remembering that a destructive belief does not define a person, nor does it eternally damn them as sexist. Watch as she explains the value in scaling back blame and accusation, and how effective it can be in promoting change.
I Am a Survivor, And I Can Finally Talk About It
I watched her heels walk into the living room, where she deposited me on the floor. She straddled me, put her face close to mine. It isn’t supposed to be something that happens to men, and certainly not by women. People don’t whistle at me from cars or assume I’m weak. I did the wrong thing by not talking about my experience when it happened, for the same reasons many people never come forward.
Your First Time: A Sexual Guide for Girls
Most sexuality education is terrible. It’s time we teach about how to have amazing, fulfilling, consensual, and healthy sex. And since I identify as a woman, I’ll finish what Jamie started yesterday by talking to the girls and women out there. Sex can be the amazing, awesome, inspiring event that people make it out to be. The truth is: It happens, just like anything else, with hard work.
Your First Time: A Sexual Guide for Boys
Let’s face it: Most sexuality education is terrible. Sex ed has to change because if we don’t do a better job of teaching healthy sexuality, we leave it up to pornography, television, music, and movies to do our job. We need to teach about more than just biology, STI’s, and abstinence. It’s time that men start having more accountable conversations about healthy, positive sexuality.
What Is Fitspiration, Anyways?
Fitspiration is any message that encourages one to persevere, push, or even suffer through exercise for the sake of achieving change in one’s physical appearance. It masquerades as a healthy response to images of size-zero models that promote unhealthy weight and potentially lead to eating disorders. However, they’re doing the exact same thing – only from a different angle.
Healing Mother-Daughter Relationships
There is something sacred about mother-daughter relationships that leave women feeling empty and less whole when a mother is absent from their life. Broken mother-daughter relationships are more common than most are aware. So why is it important to foster positive relationships between daughters and mothers? And where do daughters begin to repair poor relationships with their mothers?
Exercise Your Right To Bare Arms!
I think nearly everyone knows the feeling of being uncomfortable in your body and wearing too much clothing to cover it up. But all that makes you is sweaty, uncomfortable, and angry. A few years ago, I came to the conclusion that I wasn’t going to let myself be angry and uncomfortable (or sweaty!) any more. So I started using a technique that I’m going to share with you right now.
