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I feel like… this is my gender

[Image id: a four-panel comic of two female-presenting people. The first panel is of a grey-haired individual with multiple piercings, necklaces, and hair clips. They are passionately saying “abolish gender forever!”. The next panel is set beside the first, and contains an individual with straight blue hair, which has a pink bow in it, and is wearing a pink shirt. They are saying “make more genders” with furrowed brows and a vaguely grumpy/sneering face. The third panel is set below the first two, and is of the two characters together, staring at each other with a word bubble containing multiple ellipses above them. The final panel shows the grey-haired person pressing the other against the wall while kissing deeply. End id]

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Not my feelings on my gender, but that last pic…✨IT’S BEAUTIFUL✨

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Nonbinary people shouldn't be split into AMAB and AFAB groups, since the gender we were assigned at birth doesn't define our identity, HOWEVER, nonbinary representation should include nonbinary people who are amab, afab, and intersex, because otherwise the stereotype of all nonbinary people being afab will be perpetuated.

All nonbinary people are nonbinary, and the gender that they were assigned at birth does not matter, but we still have to show all the unique pathways to the nonbinary experience.

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Fashion of Black Teeth in Old Japan

A Yedo chemist’s recipe for black teeth dye from Tales of Old Japan by A.B. Mitford (1871):

“Take three pints of water, and, having warmed it, add half a teacupful of wine. Put into this mixture a quantity of red-hot iron; allow it to stand for five or six days, when there will be a scum on the top of the mixture, which should then be poured into a small teacup and placed near a fire. When it is warm, powdered gallnuts and iron filings should be added to it, and the whole should be warmed again. The liquid is then painted on to the teeth by means of a soft feather brush, with more powdered gallnuts and iron, and, after several applications, the desired colour will be obtained.” (Mitford 203)

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Kimono by Liza Dalby

“In the sixteenth century, the nobility ceased to be the sole source of fashion inspiration. Playgirls (asobime) – multitalented, trendy ladies who led rather public lives (sometimes glossed as ‘courtesans’) – wore their kosode belted with long tasseled silk cords. The cords, called Nogoya obi, were woven according to a style then popular in China, roped about the hips six or seven times, and tied in a looping bow.” (Dalby 37)

“Playgirls also did their hair into Chinese chignons, initiating a fashion for women to put up their hair. In previous ages, men had been the ones to oil and arrange their tresses. Women had favored long straight locks, or perhaps a simple ponytail.” (Dalby 37)

“Late Edo fashion for women was undeniably restrictive. […] Hairstyles for women had developed into the elaborate comb-studded coiffures familiar from woodblock prints. With such a coiled oiled structure on her head, a woman couldn’t even sleep freely. Finally, the practice of applying lead- and mercury-based whitening cosmetics, originally a custom limited to the noblility, had now spread into common popularity. By the nineteenth century, being fashionable was truly hazardous to a Japanese woman’s health.” (Dalby 50)

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Disney Princesses in Kimonos

Mulan

Belle (Beauty and the Beast)

Ariel (Little Mermaid)

Rapunzel

Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

Snow White

Anna (Frozen)

Elsa (Frozen)

Jasmine (Aladdin)

Cinderella

Artist : Sunnypoppy

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Life Magazine declared Japanese geta sandals an American college fashion trend in 1939.

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Les Modes, May 1910

Evening gown by Bernard, photo by Félix

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Rene Gruau, 1953

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Vintage Woodbury Body Powder

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“And that quote, “The only disability in life is a bad attitude,” the reason that that’s bullshit is because it’s just not true.” - Stella Young

[IDs: Screenshots from the late, great, Stella Young’s TED Talk: I’m Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much. Stella is a wheelchair-user sitting up on the stage in front of a massive crowd. In these screenshots, she’s saying, “No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp. Never. (Laughter. Applause.) Smiling at a television screen isn’t going to make closed captions appear for people. No amount of standing in the middle of a bookshop and radiating a positive attitude is going to turn all those books into braille.]

I use this speech and the underlying theories a lot in my PhD, but Stella Young honestly had one of those voices that needs to be heard by everyone, so I figured I’d post my favorite part of the speech here. If anyone remembers that time I threw myself onto the floor For The Vine, you’ll know that I also hate the quote: “The only disability in life is a bad attitude”. Stella just conveyed the message with less pain.

Link to Stella Young’s TED Talk | Link to the transcript

Though thinking about it I have never been comfortable with having boobs. I even bought a chest binder once because it makes me so uncomfortable but then i got horrendous pain in my ribs(unrelated) and couldn’t wear it safely. They aren’t even big but I won’t wear anything close to low cut. But I am also ok with my identity in all other ways or am I just blasé about it all?. . . I guess I’ll figure it out eventually but it’s annoying for now.

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reminder that it’s perfectly normal to question your gender identity and change your labels/pronouns. you are not weird or strange. you’re valid. and you are loveable no matter what.

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In case you needed to hear it!💕 also i find my self thinking things like “if you weren’t in lockdown you wouldn’t even be thinking about this so it doesn’t matter.” But then i have to snap myself out of it because

I . Am . In . Lockdown And It’s As Valid A Thought As Any Thought I Have Had Out Of Lockdown! And So Is Yours!

(Not trans but an ally)