feminism is not a dirty word

rookiemag:

Everybody Farts

“It’s true: bodies are goofy, and never do exactly what you’d like. But the idea that you have to be embarrassed about your own bodily functions? That idea exists solely to make you less confident, so that no one has to encounter you at your full, natural level of awesomeness. Also, it exists because for some reason people think certain facts about the human body are unspeakable. Even though you are going to find out most of those things sooner or later. Preferably sooner!”

Everybody Farts

“It’s true: bodies are goofy, and never do exactly what you’d like. But the idea that you have to be embarrassed about your own bodily functions? That idea exists solely to make you less confident, so that no one has to encounter you at your full, natural level of awesomeness. Also, it exists because for some reason people think certain facts about the human body are unspeakable. Even though you are going to find out most of those things sooner or later. Preferably sooner!”

Rookie: First Encounters With the Male Gaze

“I want these guys to know that they’re able to be so cavalier because they don’t hear unsolicited opinions on their bodies and alleged sex lives all the time. Because the changes they noticed in the mirror a year or two ago were not interpreted as permission by strangers to offer an opinion on their bodies. Because they don’t put up with the kind of language the list used on the regular, and didn’t have to see it manifested as some kind of official document or rulebook, shared and spread and broadcast for students and teachers and parents to see. I want these guys to know that of course it would be easy for you to get over, because your transition into puberty didn’t include the same kinds of ridiculous beauty expectations, and then unsolicited evaluations of how well you measured up.”

Each one of these women is an Olympic athlete.

Each one of these women is an Olympic athlete.

(via loveyourchaos)

Daena Title. Dirty Fighter, 2010.

Part of the “DROWN the DOLLS” series, these reflected distortions on the under-surface of the pool mirror the distorted cultural messages that bombard girls and women, here epitomized by the Barbie doll. Pre-pubescent girls pictured “drowning” the dolls present an alternative image of empowerment.

(via politicsoflocation-deactivated2)

callmekitto:

if I had to sum up my feelings on body image and my issues with it, this about covers it

“ Some women have noticeable curves. Some women have less noticeable curves. All of them are real women. Some men hew quite closely to traditional male stereotypes. Some men’s gender expression is wildly different from traditional male stereotypes. All of them are real men. … I am a real person. And so are you.

— Melissa McEwan, On “Realness”