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Ampersands are just partially eaten pretzels.

#ampersand #& #pretzel #thoughts

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Whenever someone tries to say something about how the body positivity movement is all about telling people being fat is a healthy lifestyle, I tell them about how I, at the ripe old age of 9 years old, wanted an eating disorder because I knew it could cause irreparable damage to your body so that you would have problems gaining weight even if you managed to recover. That’s right, I would rather having a potentially fatal mental and physical illness than live my life with the baby fat that I naturally had.

My first memory of hating my body was when I was either 4 or 5 and my mom got me one of those cute little kid bikinis for the Fourth of July with little Stars and Stripes all over it so that I could have fun in the blow-up pool in our backyard. However, looking at myself in the Disney princess vanity mirror, I wanted to cry. And even though I was so young and obviously I wasn’t going to look like a skinny model, I still immediately panicked and changed into a one-piece before hiding that kid bikini in the bottom of my drawer.

Today I am a mid-size young woman that still sometimes goes into a depression about my body, but I know that in the big picture, I have recovered greatly from those years of looking at myself in the mirror and telling myself that no one would ever love me (though sometimes that particular thought worms it’s way into my brain).

That is what the body positivity movement is. A way to tell little kids that hey, looking different than the starving models on the runways and in movies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In fact, even just having bigger girls on the screen and not as jokes or awful caricatures would have made me feel so much better about myself.

#tw diet culture #tw ed diet #fatphobia #body positive #beauty standards #feminism

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#The true cost of #Fatphobia #child abuse #Eating disorders #disordered eating

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Wait so you're telling me ace hardware isn't a hardware store for asexuals?

#Ace #asexual

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Quaint and Deceptive Hand-Drawn Installations Question the Concept of Home and Belonging

#drawing #home #installation #sculpture #site specific #furniture #black and white #Art

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Everyone guessed Rosa was gay even before she figured it out. So when is the right time to come out? 

#rosa colon #lgbtq #coming out #The nib #Comic art #puerto rico

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Why is it considered okay to limit how much money a disabled person on benefits can have, but "big government" to limit how much money a rich person can have?

And don't respond with "the disabled person is relying on the government". The rich person is also. Do the police protect their ownership of their many houses? Then they're relying on government. Do they own patents to protect their profits from competitors? Then they're relying on government. Do they profit from other people's work and are protected by the police against a worker uprising? Then they're relying on government.

#disability benefits #corporations #Disabilities #the rich

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Gemma Correll in our CITIES issue.

#gemma correll #Uk #The nib #Comic #Art

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Just want to add to this ask that sniffing lavender oil helps me keep the nausea and vomiting at bay when it flares up.

Hey Joy! Feel free to ignore if you've got low spoons 😊

I was diagnosed with Vocal Cord Dysfunction a few years ago, and it's been annoying but not majorly concerning until recently. My major symptom is gagging, and I've been have gagging episodes nearly every day (sometimes until I vomit) which is extremely discouraging. It tends to flare up when I speak a lot, which I can manage at home but is impossible to avoid at work.

Are there any exercises or tips that you use to help manage your VCD? My PCP tends to brush off most of my issues as anxiety related, which means he gives advice and not any useful information. I'm planning on getting a new PCP, but dealing with insurance is a nightmare lol.

Thank you so much Joy, hope your migraines ease up and please give the mop a smooch for me!

Hey, I'm sorry to hear you're dealing with this, and I'm sorry your PCP is being so dismissive.

If you can, push to find a speech therapist. They can better guide you through breathing and speech exercises that can help you identify your specific triggers and the best way to prevent future attacks. They may also recommend more targeted physical therapy that works to keep the throat and neck muscles in good condition.

Something else you can try is also called a "rescue breath." I'll see if I can describe it, but basically, you purse your lips together (like you're going to blow out a candle) and exhale for as long as you can through your lips, then take two quick breaths through your nose. You do it a couple of times (or however many it takes) to return your breathing to normal. I'm probably not explaining it well, but if you do it right, you can sometimes stop an attack if you can feel one coming on or stop it from getting worse.

But yeah, absolutely find yourself a speech therapist. Also, do your best to keep your neck muscles relaxed. I use heat wraps multiple times a day and also try to roll the tension out when I notice the muscles seizing up--though the way I do that is specific to my cranial instability, so I'd be reluctant to give you the same technique in case it's the opposite of what you need 😅 I also find cervical traction devices helpful, but again mileage may vary.

Best of luck. I hope things improve for you.

#vocal cord dysfunction #Vcd #Nausea #vomiting #Vocal cord paralysis

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The Candlewing Spell~

(Something a bit different, based on requests from patrons Diana Bartosh, Jacy Stesney and Luis Graciano who all asked for some form of comforting comic and this little bird just popped to mind.  I’ve been thinking about not indulging blind optimism while still pushing back against feeling helpless/ overwhelmed, I hope this spellamthing gets at that, the words feel a bit earnest and embarrassing to share but maybe that’s alright! )

www.stutterhug.com

https://www.patreon.com/Stutterhug

#The candlewing spell #Candle #Owl #Animal #Art

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Friendly reminder that bmi is bs

#fatphobia #fat activism #calories #Calories in calories out #cico #Diet culture

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2 nervous girls

#kiraodo #kira nerys #odo #ds9 #star trek #Art

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you guys are so whorephobic holy shit

#sex worker

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Extruding pasta

#hypnotic #Pasta #Hypnotic pasta

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Subtle Pride Wallpapers

(made using wombo dream)

lesbian • gay • bisexual • pansexual • asexual • aromantic

might do gender flags and other sexualities later

Please like/reblog if you save!

#Pride #flag

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The conversation around media piracy is never really going to be a black-and-white "always good" or "always bad," because it's so situational.

I'd really prefer people didn't pirate my book, because I am an independent, self-published author who makes like thirty cents per sale and regularly has to e-beg in order to get groceries. Maybe don't pirate from people in my situation.

Meanwhile, it's currently very imperative that people preserve as many things being purged from HBO Max as possible, because even the creators are saying they don't know the fate of the shows right now. The corporations that own everything are screwing people over and restricting access to the art.

Authors have been screwed over by publishing houses over book piracy issues, and legitimate sales numbers can sometimes make or break an author's career. In that sort of circumstance you should get books through shops or the local library, if you can.

But on the flip side, I recently tried very hard to go through legal sources to get my hands on some books for a project I'm working on. Half my booklist is out of print or hard to find, the local libraries didn't have it, the inter-library loan system was complicated to navigate, and the only "accessible" copies cost almost $100 on Thriftbooks. Pirating the PDFs is the only way I'm able to read them at all, just like several documentaries I downloaded that are only available through paid streaming services I can't afford.

Sometimes piracy is a dick move, sometimes it's vital to media preservation, sometimes it's a grey area, most of the time you've gotta make a personal judgment call on what constitutes "ethical piracy."

I generally adhere to the guideline "fuck over as few artists as possible; fuck over corporations as much as you can."

#piracy #hbomax

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People are taking away from “Karen Discourse” this idea that women should never, ever complain about shit to authority figures. It’s at the point that I sometimes ask my partner to speak up for me about stuff because I know I’ll just get called a Karen and get laughed at or harassed, but he’ll get listened to.  THIS IS REALLY FUCKING REGRESSIVE. This is 1950s regressive. Am I going to need to have my bank account in his name, too? When do I also lose my voting rights?

Uh, “speaking to the manager” is not the problem. It’s what you’re speaking to the manager ABOUT, and the fact that the manager isn’t even going to pay attention if you happen to be *anybody else* but either a white man or the person who fits the description of “Karen.”

#Karen #discourse