I recently received an email from a wonderful individual named Emma who hosts Large Labia Project, Our Breasts, and Real Women's Bodies. She even has a twitter!
Emma hosts these sites as online safe-zones; her followers and her offer a tight-knit support system for individuals struggling with their bodies as a whole and down to their most intimate details. Emma is thorough and impassioned, going to great lengths to offer support, to research facts, resources, and statistics to better answer questions, to respect anonymity, to defend and protect, and to boldly and tactfully illuminate and correct the common misconceptions and misinformation regarding a woman's body, perpetuated by the pornography industry. Her goals are to educate and to love.
It is an absolutely body-positive zone with a no-exceptions stance on shaming or inappropriate commentary; the support and submissions come from a wide spectrum of individuals looking to create a safe and inclusive environment for anyone feeling less-than due to their anatomy. Emma, herself, partakes in the submissions as a form of encouragement as well as to offer her solidarity.
Each project is wonderful and offers respective resources, facts, and acceptance.
The point of this post is to ask you guys to check out her sites and decide whether or not these projects are worth your support. If you feel that they are then please reblog this post, share it with friends, partners, family, whoever, and donate to her GoFundMe.
Below the cut is the email I received:
Hi,
It's Emma from the Large Labia Project and Our Breasts blogs. I'm writing to you today to ask for your help. Sorry for the group email - I know it's impersonal.
Lately I'm finding that I'm not able to spend enough time on my blogs - posting contributions, editing photos to to ensure privacy, researching answers to questions and responding to the many emails and private messages I receive asking for my help, on top of the surveys and general research that I do. That all consumes a huge amount of my time - many hours per week - which of course I'm very happy to devote.
But I feel as though recent contributors to my sites are getting a raw deal from me and I'm letting them down, simply because I don't have enough time. I'm passionate about helping so it's heartbreaking to think some people aren't getting the attention, advice, or simply some kind words of encouragement that they need.
So I've decided to reduce my hours at work (I actually have a proper job and I'm not a full-time blogger!) to spend more time to running my sites.
But to do that I'm going to have to ask for your kind financial support through donations.
The work that I'm doing through my sites is important, and I would ideally be able to spend a whole lot more time taking care of them. But a girl's still gotta eat! So I'm asking you to help me to help you, and other people who are suffering from body image problems about their breasts and labia. If you or people that you care about have personally benefited from my sites, then please seriously consider helping to fund them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. You can make a donation through GoFundMe.
The alternative is that I'll have to reduce the number of responses I give, or change the nature of the sites completely to be "contributions only", with no Q&A at all - something I'd hate to see happen. So please help me out and if you can make a donation, it will be for the benefit of many, and I'll be very grateful.
Here are two cis-centric, which they admit to yet still try to call themselves an "inclusive" blogs:
http://ourbreasts.tumblr.com/
http://largelabiaproject.org/
Bitch, if you were inclusive, you would be inclusive in your wording, merely stating that you're inclusive doesn't make it so. These blogs are about "body positivity" but it's so cissexist it makes me sick.
