In lieu of the answer to the question “can I pull off a crop top?” being “If (and only if) you have a flat stomach” from The Oprah Magazine’s creative director and also because I like numbers. “These women need to stop glorifying unhealthy obesity” 1. The body acceptance and radical self love that I practice when wearing a crop top has nothing to do with glorifying obesity or thin-shaming. It’s about loving my body RIGHT NOW, as I am. 2. Also, the fuck is ‘glorifying obesity’? 3. Oh, you are my doctor? 4. NO, YOU’RE ACTUALLY A DOCTOR OF BEING AN ASSHOLE 5. I like my belly button. 6. This is a new revelation. 7. My belly button does not interrupt your life 8. Why do you hate so much my belly button? 9. When I was in high school, I fantasized about taking a knife to my stomach so I could be normal-sized. 10. I have always been normal-sized. 11. Denise Jolly. Tess Holliday. Sonya Renee. Lindy West. Michelle Allison. Gabi Fresh. Kim Selling. 12. One night I found a website that just had photos of girls with stomach rolls and back rolls and they were smiling and so happy and I cried because I was uncomfortable and envious of their joy. 13. Swimsuits are scary for everyone. 14. I have performed a poem about how to love your body almost every night for 6 years. Sometimes I have to fake it. 15. I have never seen a legitimate sex scene in a feature film with a woman over a size 16 that was not used as a comedic tool. Ever. 16. I used to drink a fifth of tequila and smoke a pack of cigarettes every night. 17. Interestingly, no one criticized my health then. 18. Everyone is terrified of their naked body. 19. Including men. 20. We are all complex. Everyone is breaking and healing and hating all at the same time. You are not exempt. I am not exempt. 21. Photoshop is the devil incarnate. 22. You cannot love what you hope your body to be, without loving it for what it is. 23. My body is what it is what it is. 24. The mirror is what it is what it is. 25. I have found myself at the mercy of my own reflection, wondering if my size diminishes my femininity. Answer: It does not. I am adorable as fuck. 26. Do you know how miserable it feels to maintain a body that has been deemed unworthy by society? In the same breath, do you know what a joy it is to take care of something that you love? 27. Therefore, celebrating your body is a revolutionary act. 28. I feel my own self breathe. I feel my organs when I breathe and when I shower, I feel my skin on my skin. I know that it is mine. I listen to what my body asks for. I put on a shirt that shows my stomach. I wing my eyeliner up and I ride my bike into the sunset and I will pick wildflowers with my love and later I will eat brussels sprouts and maybe a martini with lots of olives in it and I will do all this because it makes me feel good and because I am worthy of love and cute clothes and happiness. 29. Feeling worthy has taken so long. 30. I am my own holy revolution, welcome to the church of my thunder thighs, I am awake and alive, I’ve come to wear all of the crop tops that the glittering world has to offer, I’ve come to dance the shame out of my childhood, I’ve come to win back my joy. You may not snatch it from me like a purse. I win whether I have a mouth full of pretzels or a mouth full of kale; you have not been granted the privilege to know how I consume my world and what makes me most delight in my skin. I will glorify the shit out of my body.
Mary Lambert (via spookybeardsandbootys)
