RIP Juniper Blessing 🏳️‍⚧️

If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.

My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.

"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.

"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.

"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.

"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.

"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.

1. look at myself

2. go outside/out in public (with and without a shirt on)

3. take pictures of myself without deleting them afterwards

4. feel comfortable

5. look at my body fluids through the drain thingies they give you

6. see my scars

7. show my friends (and online viewers) my results

8. TIGHT SHIRTS!!!!!! REVEALING SHIRTS!!!! TIGHT AND REVEALING SHIRTS!!!!

9. sleep on my front without boobs in the way

10. put on a seatbelt

11. grow my pecs

12. hug my husband

13. say "this is so crazy" 10 billion times out of disbelief

14. hug my husband

15. my husband :) yayyyy

16. sorry got distracted. I love my husband

17. draw myself boobless without feeling guilty

18. feel better

19. aftercare

20. stay home with my husband because he specifically called off work for a week to take care of me while I heal

21. husband.......