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@harnaamkaur and I are tired of your shitty gender roles. We shot this series for @theparallelmag to challenge what people are “allowed to do.” She has a beard due to a medical condition. She loves it and kills it! As for me, I just want to wear a skirt sometimes cuz I think it can look dope! The fact we socially relegate these fashion and styling attributes to certain genders just seems so frivolous and dangerous when you consider how aggressive people get when their confronted with these things that don’t fit into their understanding of how the world works. At the end of the day, just be yourself and love yourself and don’t judge others who are living that way. Think outside the parameters that we are lead to believe are absolute and see the world as it is! Much love to all of you! 📷: @sophieephotos 💄: @kateoffthewall 👔: @roxannechanelmurray

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Abolaji Oshun | Drop Dead ‘Deaducation’ Collection

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**July 5, 2016**

I have been loving my internship so much. Yes i do get paid like nothing but being able to have gotten the privilage to be a part of the National Parks Service as a TQPoC gives me opportunities that I need for my future career goals. I may not have a chance to change the white supremist structure just yet but I am setting myself up to uplift my communities in spaces in which we need to take space and be heard. #Centenialinitiative is being created by National Parks at its 100 yr anniversary to include PoC and other marginalized identities to feel welcome in parks. The problem with that mentality is that is send a message of ‘we include you and your money too’, instead of 'we know you exist and its time we stop centralizing white folx in poc narratives’. It may not look like action-based activism but for my energy levels and mental health this is the best thing I can do to give back. I must continue to uplift and support raza and tqpoc fam. 💖🌹🌈

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Self Care for Skeptics is a zine that takes issue with the [neoliberal] notion of “self care,” approaching self care through lenses of feminism(s) and queer theory. Featuring art and literature by twenty-two feminist, queer, genderqueer, and trans artists and writers. The zine includes a limited edition artist multiple by Anthea Black and LIDS (LADIES INVITATIONAL DEADBEAT SOCIETY), entitled “The Ten Cognitive Distortions.” ARTISTS: Alice Dixon Anchi Lin Anthea Black and LIDS Anna Jane McIntyre Chun Hua Catherine Dong Cleo Neville Clementine Morrigan Cordelia Mad Dimple B Shah Dionne Horacsek Eva Bryant Evan Tyler Jenna Lee Forde Joan Lillian Wilson Lillian Arvel Lindsay Miles Madeleine Black Radical Spirits Roz MacLean Shana Bulhan Haydock Tanya De Souza-Meally Zoë Ruth Biggs Curated by Lauren Fournier www.laurenfournier.net ZINE LAUNCH PARTY: SATURDAY, JULY 25 TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO 401 RICHMOND ST. WEST, SUITE 376 TORONTO, ON 6PM-9PM The space has been offered to us through Trinity Square Video’s Testing Grounds initiative! Check out some of the great work that has been happening this summer by TSV members: http://trinity-square-video.tumblr.com/ The notions of self-love and self-care circulate in relation to spa days, diet regimens, fitness, quiet time, clay masks, cups of tea, vacation, creative expression, meditation, yoga, eating chocolate, not eating chocolate, gardening, journalling, organizing, spending time outdoors, and other socially sanctioned (and often highly gendered) activities just for me. There is a tendency to use the term “self-care” when referring to those practices deemed healthy and good for us — and thereby positively valued — without questioning what the stakes of these so-called self-care practices are in the context of patriarchal neoliberal capitalist ideology (with its neo-imperializing tendencies). What does self-care look like, entail, require, or provoke for artists, writers, thinkers, performers, percolators, and makers who identify as feminists? How does a feminist ethic and aesthetic shape our understanding of self-care practices, and the ideological implications of the forms that mainstream self-care practices tend to take?

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R E C L A I M I N G & R E V O L T I N G B O D I E S

It is with great pleasure and gratitude I present this illustrated interview with Caleb Luna and Nicole Arteaga, two queer fat femme artists and creators of FAT: THE PLAY. They talk about representation of fat bodies in performance art, femme as a political identity, and breaking down internalized and systemic fat-hatred. I am so inspired by this collective and learned so much from working with their words!! Read the original here! Copyright, Truth-out. Reprinted with permission.

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My Body Is a Prison of Pain so I Want to Leave It Like a Mystic But I Also Love It & Want it to Matter Politically from WCCW on Vimeo.

A book, in progress, on the discourse of illness and wellness; how “wellness” is an invention of capitalism, as is “illness”; how vulnerability is the default, and so support must be primary; how mysticism, witchcraft, and nursing are some solutions; how care manifests in radical sociality; how we can survive, in resilience, and in solidarity.