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Sara (Quin), not quite ready to move on, observed that my tattoo created a nice contrast to my all-black outfit. This was exactly the reason I’d gotten it done, as a matter of fact. People used to comment on the lack of colour in my wardrobe and so I reasoned that an insanely bright floral tattoo would balance everything out. No one had ever made that connection before. Sara does not know this but, in that moment, an eternal bond was formed between us that will never ever be severed
Crystal via Autostraddle — This Letter Crystal Sent Me About Meeting Tegan and Sara
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I realize today that my relationship to gender has been impacted by the ways that others understand and interpret fat bodies. Bodies that by their very nature are incapable of fitting into traditional modes of gender conformity. I always felt afraid of embracing the more masculine parts of myself for fear of losing my already precarious grip on femininity. It was a relationship to my gender created by fear and social policing, built on a logic that “if you are not one thing than you are another.” To be feminine is to be small and delicate to a fault, so if you are already thick, you are fighting an uphill battle to meet norms that are already elusive.
Here’s the twist: I’m not doing it anymore.
Allie Shyer via Autostraddle — Fat Queer Tells All: On Fatness and Gender Flatness
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