last week i saw some article on buzzfeed or or the cut or wherever describing the new phrase “body-neutrality” by which they mean roughly the same thing that i call “weaponized ugliness” or my other tag “existing as revolutionary praxis”. body positivity is well-meaning but not for everyone and sometimes harmful.
i have a body, it has a certain shape and function, it has certain colors and marks and scars and curves and angles and sexy parts and unsexy parts. i don’t need to love it and i don’t have to hate it. i’m allowed to just have it be there, a tool for my use and an essential part of my humanity. i can be ugly or pretty, that’s irrelevant to my right to decent medical care and clothes that fit and respect from strangers. i can be any shape or size or color or gender and still deserve those rights.
telling me to love my body is still policing my energy and my thoughts and my spending habits and my self respect. instead tell me i’m allowed to feel however i want about my body. give me bodily autonomy. body neutrality means let me decide what i need or want to do with the skin i’m in.
I know this isn’t aesthetic. But to all our trans followers, please stay safe! -Mod Xav
Everybody stay safe, keep your head on a swivel, check in with your crew on the regular, and I promise you we will outlast them, we will bury them, we will show them Kuzma’s mother
so a little while back, i wrote a cookbook, and the post’s being passed around tumblr a whole lot lately. (thanks for that, by the way! i’ve made like a hundred dollars this week and my cat’s very excited about the fancy pumpkin-and-nastiness catfood that she’s going to get in celebration.)
when i released the book, i was like, oh, i oughta do something for promo! which i promptly did not do, at all. but i’m doing it now! free cookbooks for all! well, for some. five. five, to be exact, free cookbooks for five.
anyhow, this is the book i wrote:
Cooking is terrible, and food is often a massive pain in the ass. Eating is sometimes ok, sometimes a giant drag, and somehow still a thing that you have to do multiple times a day, which seems enormously unfair.
This book isn’t going to teach you how to cook, or turn you into the kind of person who hosts effortless dinner parties, or make you more attractive and popular and interesting. At best, it’s going to make it slightly more likely that you manage to eat something in the ten minutes between walking in the door and falling into the sweet embrace of the internet. I’m not joking—a lot of this can be done, start to finish, in ten to fifteen minutes. I resent thirty-minute meals because it feels like about twenty-eight minutes too long to spend on feeding myself.
If you’re excited to get home from work and spend an hour cooking dinner, this isn’t the book for you. If you really value authenticity, this isn’t the book for you. If you literally only eat three foods and you’re happy like that, this isn’t the book for you. If you, like me, are tired and depressed and just need to get some food into your face once in a while, this is definitely the book for you. You should buy it. Maybe it’ll help.
you can buy it on amazon or gumroad, or you can win a copy (in pdf, epub, or mobi format) by reblogging this post.
other important stuff:
winners will be chosen by a random generator
please don’t spam people–reblog no more than twice
“Throughout American history, each generation has had its Charles Murray types. During the era of the founding, there were those like Jefferson who believed that since black people’s “griefs were transient,” one could break up their families and destroy their bodies. There were those who measured “negroid” skulls to prove black inferiority, those who believed, like Murray, that in a system of “natural” inequality everyone should find their place, and that some people’s places were in cotton fields or minstrel shows. And when, after centuries of being shackled, black intellect was finally set free to produce the most extraordinarily diverse body of musical composition in the history of sound, there were those who, terrified at the subversion of their dominance, scoffed at the supposed immorality and simplicity of “jungle music.” That particular ugly strain in American thought, the trivialization and dismissal of black genius, lingers in books like Murray’s Human Accomplishment and among those who use “multiculturalism” and “postmodernism” as derisive synonyms for black art.
Fortunately, the story of America is also the story of a defiant black resistance to these relentless attempts at diminution. It is not just the story of Thomas Jefferson, but the story of Benjamin Banneker, the scientist and ex-slave, whose ringing words made sure that Jefferson’s racism did not go unrefuted, and made sure that nobody could say Jefferson “didn’t know” the extent of his own monstrous crimes. Today, as Charles Murray attempts to revive Jeffersonianism, he should be met with an army of Benjamin Bannekers, ready to expose, with superior eloquence and moral force, the vicious lie of racial hierarchy and the flimsy idiocies of the “natural aristocrats.””
For those of you thinking of purchasing testosterone illegally please remember you are taking your life into your hands and you absolutely can overdose on T and it can be life threatening. Taking a ton of T will not masculinize you. Too much T can get converted back into estrogen.
Do not take any testosterone not purchased with your prescription given to you by your doctor. Every one’s dose is different.
Hormone imbalance can severely fuck up your body.
not on T but i’m sure some lovely soul out there on my blog may need this
plz b safe
This post very well could have just saved me bc I had no idea my vision getting blurry like this OR the headaches were signs of overdose despite telling my doctor about those two symptoms. So thank you.
Also illegal HRT can often be laced with things like cement so PLEASE be careful -Emmett
Also if it’s your first shot or one of the firsts, drink loads of water, else you will get a headache regardless!
Your muscles try to get bigger and for that put more water into their cells, that you have to fill up again. Once i figured it out, i drank 5 liters or something like that for a few days until the main part was over. (your doctor should tell you this, but they are human and forget things)
And for what to drink: Not something with caffeine (tea, coffee) or alcohol. Those reduce your water level.
The risk with testosterone isn’t overdose per se. Acute overdose isn’t really a concern. (I assume the symptoms were categorized that way because they’re serious potential side effects usually associated with an overdose.) However, testosterone can still cause some nasty and potentially serious side effects such as hypertension, nausea and vomiting, fluid retention and swelling, paranoia and mood symptoms, and difficulty breathing. Allergic reactions to topical forms are possible (x, x). Please don’t mess with medications on your own, hormones included.
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I would also like to point out that the notion that caffeinated beverages reduces water level is a common dietary misconception that hasn’t held up over the years. Caffeinated beverages can be just as hydrating as non-caffeinated beverages. Caffeine is a diuretic, yes, but diuretic does not necessarily equate to loss of overall hydration or water level. The Institute of Medicine was on record in 2005 noting that the data on caffeine’s impact on water level was conflicting and overall inconclusive (x; p. 133-134). Multiple medical sources agree, including a research literature review (x, x, x).
T can cause headaches and fluid retention but drinking loads of water isn’t necessary to account for them. A common cause of headaches on testosterone can also include blood pressure changes. They can also be tension headaches, which the changes in muscle tone and function can contribute to.
In addition, to expand further on XXX’s response, most of those symptoms noted as “OD symptoms” are not actually symptoms of overdose. They’re symptoms of a stroke, which is a known possible complication of testosterone use. Increased blood pressure (hypertension) is a noted risk factor of both coronary heart disease and stroke, as are higher triglycaride levels, both of which are possible effects of testosterone (x).
Please be careful about giving inaccurate medical information or advice regarding hormone treatment. There are still many things unknown about how HRT influences the body, and there are multiple factors at play. A single answer for why a symptom occurs or how to treat it may not be helpful for everyone if their symptom is from something else.
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