slightly controversial opinion:
body hair positivity is utterly meaningless if it doesn’t include or center women of color and trans women
women of color and trans women face the most egregious mockery of their body hair
AND they’re consistently misgendered and denied their womanhood because of their body hair (especially if they’re trans and nonwhite)
there are white women, including white wlw (especially gnc white wlw) who are shamed for their body hair but frankly their struggles with body hair are incomparable to how women of color + trans women (especially gnc wlwoc and trans woc) struggle daily with body hair
trans women are assaulted and even killed if they don’t pass and are thus pressured to conform to femininity in ways cis women aren’t
women of color are coercively masculinized and desexualized if they don’t conform to femininity and face a constant, exhausting stream of rejection from their communities and from white people because of body hair
both trans women and woc are punished if they don’t painstakingly rid themselves of body hair or if they do choose to then they participate in painful, time-consuming, and usually expensive processes to get rid of body hair
consider religion as well - jewish, muslim, hindu, and other nonwhite women who are religious have unique struggles with body hair as well
in essence, body hair positivity that doesn’t emphasize woc and trans women’s conflicts with body hair and how it relates to their sense of self/how others conceive of them is truly purposeless and only serves to cater to cis white sensibilities
snowghoul
kaledo-art
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