Trebuchet's Art

i blacked out and she appeared on my canvas i love you charge biceps

ortega: remember how we used to dance?

Listening to a podcast about bodies and eating disorders and the body positivity movement of the last decade ish and hearing someone say (paraphrasing from memory here) "body positivity was all capitalism, there were no legislative changes, just new brands of jeans"

Legislative changes are super important but I cannot emphasize enough that jeans coming in bigger sizes and fat-friendly cuts is actually a really big deal! With meaningful impacts on people's lives (including mine)! Fat people do need clothes! And you may not realize this, but if you're over a certain size (that's not even that big a size) there's a very good chance you can go to a big box store and *not find anything that fits you*. There are towns in the US where if you're over a size 18 you need to drive an hour away or shop online to get things in your size. And they're expensive! "Just buy used" if they even have your size! Fat people want to look nice too. And we face enough judgement during job interviews (to give one example) without trying to do it in clothes that don't fit or are super uncomfortable.

Actually: If you're fat and you want to look cute/hot/masc/femme/etc I cannot recommend this website enough, you put in your measurements and it lists what brands have your size. You can filter for stuff like sensory friendly, nonbinary, masc, organic, etc. It's not AI just a database.

when in doubt... perfectionism buster technique, forgive me for all of my sins, i haven't even read it through. I think i like it tho? I'll know tomorrow lol

Artfight attack number 2!!!

hero's respite

things like endometriosis can develop in an estrogen-dominated system, because its the hormones that cause the growth of endometrial lesions, not the “parts” themselves. If you’re experiencing unusually painful symptoms* then you have a right to find a doctor who will take you seriously and not try to gaslight you into thinking that the pain is “normal”.

This cycle causes the shedding of the uterus lining, which is menstruation, but that’s only one symptom of a period and the two should not be treated as synonyms (hence the distinction between menstruation and PMS). In fact it’s actually quite daunting, and reflective of a severe lack of sex education on how estrogen-dominated systems work, that so many people in the notes of this post do not realise that menstruation is not the only part of a period. Cis women without uteruses, for example, still experience period symptoms if their ovaries remain intact, because the ovaries still produce estrogen, and if they also don’t have their ovaries, then cis women may also go on HRT to restore their low levels of estrogen back to their normal levels, and will again experience the period symptoms caused by an estrogen-dominated system, such as bloating, mood swings, fatigue and even things such as PMDD (which is a hormone-based disorder and does not require the presence of a uterus, hence why trans women on HRT can also develop this debilitating disorder).

This knowledge is vital, not just for trans women, but for everyone with an estrogen-dominated system (cis women, trans women, pre-T trans men etc.) because working under the belief that period symptoms are entirely contained within the uterus means that many symtoms, issues and disorders can go undiagnosed when the uterus is not present. Endometriosis, for example, is literally a disorder caused by endometrial tissue growing outside of the uterus, so removing the uterus does not cure endometriosis.

TERFs are willing to ignore basic biological facts and literally put women in danger by minimising the effects that estrogen itself has on the body purely to further their exclusionary agenda wherin the idea of a trans woman being able to relate to them in any way causes them to seethe with misplaced anger.

It’s also interesting how much they’ve deified their own pain and suffering, so being exposed to the fact that this pain is not exclusive to cis women (or more specifically, those with a uterus) is so threatening to them that they have to literally change immutable facts in order to deny this reality.