Redefining Femininity & Finding Beauty in Strength

Snippets of the kind of beauty you cannot capture on a one-dimensional screen.

[birdasaurus]

yse

[sweaterfemme-deactivated2025081]

i feel like we dont talk enough about how two of the most decorated female hockey players ever, one a former captain for team canada and the other for the usa, fell in love and had a baby together 

[sweaterfemme-deactivated2025081]

small gay sports baby

[hotcommunist-deactivated2019032]

[positive-lesbian-vibes]

Ok but where is my cheesey lesbian rom-com about them falling in love while playing against each other

[johannas-motivational-insults]

Okay but the funniest part is this has happened multiple times. There are three instances of former Canadian and American national team players who have gotten married:

-Caroline Ouellette and Julie Chu (both former captains)

-Gillian Apps (former alternate captain) and Meghan Duggan (former captain)

-Jayna Hefford (former alternate captain) and Kathleen Kauth

Seriously it’s like tradition at this point. I’m sure there’s a betting pool on who’s going to get married next. God I love the rival lesbian jocks trope.

[blazingspirit]

In case y’all didn’t click that link I need to make sure you see the headline.

[peashooter85]

Anarchist militia woman during the Spanish Civil War

[renmorris]

I wish more people...cis and trans...understood that transitioning and passing is just not possible for a lot of us and never will be. I’m so tired of the trans narrative being focused on this supposedly universal experience.

I’m extremely disabled. I will probably never be able to transition in any capacity. I am dependent on my bigoted family and on a bigoted medical system to survive. HRT could hurt my body very badly and I cannot bind because of chronic chest pain. I cannot have top surgery for those same reasons.

There’s so much more to being a man, woman, non-binary than how you can present yourself. And a lot of us are trying desperately to come to terms with that. With the idea of being closeted forever or just straight up trying to navigate our own identies among other trans people more privileged than us.

[everyone can reblog but don't clown on this post, no t*rfs, no tr*sc*m]

[arianna738]

My phone’s camera accidently started doing a vertical panorama. Decided to give it a go and got this really cool pic!

[tallon-underworld]

Dang

[theonecalledpreposterous-deacti]

“Do you love the color of fire?”

[god-of-brawlhalla]

Sometimes I forget everything is made from bits of stuff that the stars are made of, and this makes me feel warm inside.

[black-bloc-antifa]

[simplemente-fridakahlo]

“You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”

“Mereces un amor que se lleve las mentiras, que te traiga la ilusión, el café y la poesía.” -Frida kahlo

[simplemente-fridakahlo]

“I fight for freedom being a woman who can not be free. I am Mexican but I’m not stupid as many of them. To me nothing or especially men boss me around, nothing that I stay at home darning socks or washing dirty underwears. They say that Fashion involves you to shave, put makeup on, use modern dresses. Well, I leave my eyebrows and my mustache, I wash my face, I use my blouses! In a society frowned upon women who smoke, drink, or say bad words and especially those who sleep with anybody they wish too. Well, I drink and smoke, say shit and I sleep with who I want! Only those with the devil can be fucking Communists they say. I am, Ball of bastards! I am free to paint as I wish too and not as others tell me, starting with my chubby. I am free to get drunk with tequila when my ovaries feel like it. I am free to have sex with women and men. I am free to choose between eating mole or strudel. I am free to accept death at a young age.I am free to give me in the fucking mother.” -Frida Kahlo

“Lucho por la libertad siendo una mujer que no puede ser libre. Soy mexicana pero no soy pendeja como muchas de ellas. A mi nada que me manden los hombres, nada de que me quede en mi casa remendando calcetines o lavando calzones cagados. Que la moda dice que te rasures, que te pongas maquillaje, que uses vestidos modernos. Pues yo me dejo mi cejas y mi bigote, me lavo la cara, uso mis huipiles! En sociedad es mal visto que las mujeres fumen, que tomen, que digan groseras y menos que se anden acostando con quien se les antoja. Pues yo tomo y fumo, digo chingaderas y me acuesto con quien quiero! Que solo las que tienen el diablo metido pueden ser comunistas. Yo lo soy, bola de cabrones! Soy libre para pintar como quiero y no como me dicen los demas, empezando por mi gordo. Soy libre para emborracharme con tequila cuando se me hinchan los ovarios. Soy libre para acostarme con mujeres y con hombres. Soy libre para escoger entre comer mole o strudel. Soy libre para aceptar morir siendo joven. Soy libre para darme en la madre a mi misma”. -Frida Kahlo

[giageor]

“You did not understand what I am. I am pleasure, I am love, I am essence, I am an alcoholic, I am an idiot, I am tenacious. I am; I simply am” Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

[1910crew-deactivated20170810]

[akindofbeautythatmoves]

Always-already beauty

…And I can’t just go out and find someone else like you, because the truth is, there isn’t anyone else like you. I’ve met hundred and thousands of people…you are one of a kind. And the more I realize who you are, the more I realize that the reason why you often feel like you don’t fit in this world is because you are meant to stand out. That’s what people who are put here to change the world do.

So forgive me a little bit for lingering too long and saying too much. You have the kind of beauty that can’t be captured in a snapshot and the kind of energy that isn’t picked up by film. It’s always-already and like a professionally taken Polaroid picture, one can easily forget they are holding their breathe while waiting to see what final image will emerge.

[diabeticlesbian]

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 13 January 1943 19-year-old Ukrainian anti-Nazi resistance fighter Juliana Matveevna Gromova was executed by German forces. Arrested 3 days before, she endured brutal torture as the Nazis tried to force her to disclose the names of her comrades. They beat her, whipped her with metal, burned her with hot irons, flayed and mutilated her, tore out her hair and rubbed salt in her wounds but she refused to betray any of her comrades. And she raised the spirits of her fellow detainees by reciting poetry. http://bit.ly/2Fpi1or

[rejectedprincesses]

Bernice Sandler, ‘godmother of Title IX’ who championed women’s rights on campus, dies at 90

After she was turned down for a job because she came on “too strong for a woman,” she began a campaign that led to the landmark legislation banning sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions.

In 1969, her newly earned doctorate in hand, Bernice Sandler was hoping to land one of seven open teaching positions in her department at the University of Maryland. When she learned she had been considered for none of them, she asked a male colleague about the oversight. “Let’s face it,” was his reply. “You come on too strong for a woman.”

When she applied for another academic position, the hiring researcher remarked that he didn’t hire women because they too often stayed home with sick children. Later, an employment agency reviewed her résumé and dismissed her as “just a housewife who went back to school.”

Rest in power.

[profeminist]

Lizzo Pauses Australian Tour Commitments To Help Bushfire Victims

The singer volunteered at Melbourne's Foodbank to package food hampers for those affected by the country's worst fire crisis.

“Musician Lizzo has taken a break from her gigs in Australia to lend a helping hand as the country’s worst bushfire crisis continues.

The 31-year-old “Good As Hell” hitmaker spent time volunteering at Melbourne’s Foodbank on Wednesday, helping package food hampers for those who’ve been affected by the devastating fires.

The organization has set up a page on its website where Lizzo fans can learn how to make a difference this bushfire season.

The 2019/2020 bushfire season death toll stands at 25, 10.3 million hectares of land has been burnt, 1 billion animals are feared to have perished, thousands of people have been evacuated from holiday beaches and more than 1,900 homes have been destroyed.” 

Read the full piece here

[profeminist]

https://foodbank-victoria.giveeasy.org/2020-bushfire-appeal-lizzo

[whisperofmovies]

Anarchist from Colony (2017)

[mushabon]

Employer: “Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?”

Me:

[thebearcametoo]

I love this because you could mean anyone in th picture, including the bear.

[mushabon]

You made this 1000x better

[stavarosthearcane]

Who wouldn’t aspire to be a stylishly dressed Were-bear with a beautiful nude woman on their back providing musical accompaniment as you drive unwanted trespassers from the steps of your stately residence?

Seems like a pretty sweet deal to me.

[crinosg]

Belle: Beast, I have to go back to my father, your magic mirror showed he was sick.

Beast: Really? Let me see…. Huh, actually it look like some guy called Gaston is going to have him committed.

Belle: What now? *Grabs mirror*

Beast: you know that guy? he seems like a douche.

Belle: Beast…. Honey…. you wanna get out of the house for a few hours?

Beast: Against my better judgement, I’m gonna say yes.

*Later*

Belle: FLEE MORTALS, I AM ARTEMIS, GODDESS OF THE WILD HUNT, AND I HAVE COME FOR YOU.

Beast: HEY NOT THAT I’M NOT HAVING FUN BUT WHY ARE YOU NAKED?

Belle: ARTEMIS, GODDESS OF THE WILD HUNT DOES NOT REQUIRE CLOTHES.

Beast: I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS SIDE OF YOU BEFORE AND I’M NOT GONNA LIE I KIND OF DIG IT.

Belle: YEAH I’M HAVING FUN TOO. HEY ITS LEFOU, GASTON’S LITTLE CHEERLEADER. GET HIM!

Beast: YES MA’AM!

Fairy: *Watching in the distance*: You know I was gonna turn him back, but it looks like they’re having fun so I’ll come back tomorrow.