Posts tagged POC
StopHatingYourBody
On a mission to live a body positive life
I’m getting used to the fact that I will probably always be fat - and that’s perfectly fine with me. I’m accepting that I’m still gorgeous, and that my beauty is enhanced by the jiggling of my thighs and the rolls on my back. I’M A BODY LOVING WARRIOR.
I’m the one in the blue pants. Ive always been underweight. I was born with a heart condition and the medicine I take for it decreases my appetite, and I have a naturally fast metabolism. I’ve been a size 0-2 (depending on the store/brand) I still get judged for being so thin. People constantly ask me if I ever eat, they tell me i need to gain weight as if I already didn’t know
In middle school during lunch one day, some one threw a half eaten cheese burger at my table. Then thew a piece of paper that said “learn to eat bitch.” I’ve never been the kind of person that can eat a lot of food in one sitting. I eat as much as I can through out the day. In fact, in middle school, I had to eat something every hour because of medicine and the side effects being dizziness. Long story short, I’ve always been very thin and judged and ridiculed for it.
My best friend is next to me. In elementary and middle school she was always chubby. She was called fat and teased relentlessly. In high school the weight started coming off, she ate healthy and exercised and was on her churches basket ball team. By 10th grade she lost a lot of weight, she was a size 3. With stress in school and other elements she gained weight again. Her wight has always fluctuated but she was always content with her body and people would call her coincided. though she isn’t, shes just confident.
I wish people would just stop body shaming others, I wish everyone was comfortable in their own skin. There is no such thing as ‘the perfect body’
Perfection is a lie.
My name is Jessica, and I can officially and happily say that I am fully recovered from suffering of anorexia for a little bit over two years.
For around 730 days of my life, I hated every bit of me. I hated my skin color, my body, my face, my voice, my hair…. And for what reason? Because a bunch of good for nothings made me feel like I wasn’t worthy to live because I was fat, Black, had a deep voice for a girl, and my hair was natural.
But, for in another 730 days, I realized that I AM worthy of living because of all those things. I pushed away all my self-loathing thoughts away and replaced them with loving praises of myself from my own point of view and others. It took me nearly that amount of time to be comfortable enough to look in the mirror without crying. I jumped on the wagon of self acceptance, love, and happiness of recovery from my anorexia, and even though the road was bump and I fell off a few times, I got right back on and kept going.
I reached the light a month ago, when I had a sudden realization that I am a beautiful human being, no matter what my body size is or the color of my skin. Sticks and stones may break my bones but disgusting, jealous fucks who try to bring me down won’t hurt me ever again.
We’re all beautiful, and we don’t need One Direction to let us know that! Cherish what you have as a person and that you are the only you in the ENTIRE universe! Flaunt your inner self and if people don’t like it, fuck ‘em! You only need you, yourself, and YOU.
How White LGBTQ People Can Be More Inclusive of People of Color
A great article for allies and QPOC. The article examines experiences from different angles and perspectives, with intro terms to folks new to these topics. Pass it along!
Resolutions -
This is my first video :) There aren’t any captions on this but here a run down of what this is all about:
Resolutions for the new year:
- Self care as a large part of self preservation including: continuing to battle for my right to exams, doctors who are competent, specialists…. Not feeling guilty about taking care of myself… Remembering to honor my own body… Giving myself love like I would to anyone I care deeply about
- Being Honest. Honesty with myself and with others…only keeping those I can be fully honest about my body and my entire being with. Honesty as a way not to internalize isolation or damaging views on my own self worth as a person with chronic illness.
- Continuing on with my small business but also involving others in it for help and expansion.
- Community - surrounding myself with POC with disabilities/chronic illness, QPOC, general chronically ill community…on the internet and in person.
- Final point: Fuck the idea that if you are not ~independent~ you are unworthy as a person. Remember this and not forgetting that interdependence and community is beautiful. It is not damaging or makes you less worthy as an individual.
*Special thanks to Fabian Romero who inspired this with their awesome resolutions video posted recently
via a Girl’s Guide To Taking Over The World
‘No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women… When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.’- Bell Hooks
Hi there!
The name’s Chase, 18, half Native American (Tsimshian, Coast Salish, Musqueam Nation)
Pre-everything, only recently started to transition… I found a therapist, and a group, and have to come out to my family… My friends are all aware, and supportive, but, of course, there’s still the close-minded family to worry about…
From British Columbia, Canada.
Message me, I love to meet new people, and I think it’d be cool to get a few trans or ally friends~
keep calm, and wear less clothes.
this is one of those call-me-a-girl, dissrespect-my-pronouns or post-on-a-bbw-porn-blog-and-i-will-deduct-100-points-from-your-house-and-feed-you-to-a-Dementor kind of posts.
tiger bombshell/they pronouns/fat nonbinary korean
I never thought I would have the courage to actually talk about my body or how I feel about it to the world so what I am about to say/submit is probably something I never thought I could do. So here goes nothing.
First off, my name is Samantha, but most people call me Sam. All my life I struggled finding the right outfit or what looked “good” on me as I was growing up. I grew up just wearing t-shirts and basketball shorts. All my life people never actually called me mean names, but I could tell that they gave me strange look just by the way my appearance was. I was a tomboy growing up, but I think that was because I never really felt comfortable in cute girl clothes. I remember my mom always telling me, “you are built just like me there is nothing you can do about it.” I remember feeling really sad and I hated the way my body was. I hated that I couldn’t be like anyone else. I never felt comfortable, unless I was wearing baggy clothes. Of course the media never helped, but as I grew older and I got into my first relationship my Senior year of high school, I realized that my physical aspects of my body weren’t all that mattered. I started opening up and I wasn’t afraid to be myself. I became happy and I was confident in what I was wearing. I could wear anything and I felt good about myself. Granted, I knew other girls looked ten times more prettier than I did, but did I care? No. I learned to respect my body, and I learned to be myself. I realize now that nothing is perfect, but when someone treats all your flaws as if they are nothing, you soon realize that your body shape isn’t all what matters. I love my body, and I love showing it off. I am proud to say that, I love being fluffy :) more to love I always say!! :)
If you have any questions, please inbox me. I would love to hear and talk to you :) xox http://saameow.tumblr.com/
I’ve spent so many years feeling uncomfortable with my body. And today as I was getting ready for my 11 o’ clock class I realized I shouldn’t be. It’s my personality that defines who I am not how big or small I may be. Ya know thinking about it now, about six months ago i would have never thought about submitting a photo to a blog like this or any other blog and I feel as if this is a really big step for me and I am honestly incredibly proud of myself.
Tag troubles!
It’s been brought to my attention that on certain submissions to SHYB, tags have been messing up. More specifically, certain submissions are being tagged with every tag that we offer, including those that are inappropriate for posts (such as mtf/ftm for cis submissions)
I think this is a tumblr glitch and not anyone trying to be purposely hurtful, but I wanted to say that going forward we’re going to keep an eye on what tags get published with what submission. We have no intentions on invading people’s safe spaces and I feel horrible that it’s happened.
Users tag their own submissions, we mods do not add tags to any submissions, but at our discretion if we feel a tag is inappropriate, we will remove it.
Right now it seems to be happening on random posts, some are links that people have submitted, some are just regular submissions. I haven’t found any common thread yet in the posts this has been happening in.
So this is my apology to anyone who is rightfully upset that posts have been popping up in tags that shouldn’t be there. It certainly wasn’t intentional, and if you see it happening, please call us out on it so we can fix it! Thank you to those who have brought it to our attention!
Love,
#stopbullying its time to stand up and make a difference #liupost (Taken with Instagram)
(Source: juicymangosummerspeach)
Call for submissions!
Hey everyone! Our queue is running really low right now, and I’d love to have some more stories to get us through the next few weeks! If you’ve been thinking about submitting, now would be a GREAT time! Don’t forget that if you want to make your post anonymous, we have no problem with that!
Other things I wanted to mention:
- We’ll be looking for a new mod or two soon in the near future, someone who’s got access to posts and info and connections to great blogs run by/for POC, trans*, disabled, and other groups that don’t get as much exposure as we’d like. So if you’ve got a few spare hours a week and don’t mind queueing submissions, answering questions, and finding body positive posts, especially body positive from the aforementioned groups, to put in our queue, start thinking about applying! I’m going to make up an application process and hope to have it up and running soon!
- Have you seen a post that you think NEEDS to be on SHYB? Submit the link to us! You can either send us a fanmail with the link, or just use the submit page!
- We’ve got nearly 50,000 members here at SHYB, and it’s impossible for us mods to be able to go through every comment to every post. If you see someone making any negative comments on a post, or concern trolling, PLEASE inform us (you can submit the link to the post the offending comment/s are on) so we can take care of it! We all have to work together to keep SHYB as positive as possible!
- If you don’t already, feel free to follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page! :D
I think that’s about it! Thanks for following, thanks for joining the revolution, and thanks for being you!
Love,
Call for submissions!
Hey everyone! Our queue is running really low right now, and I’d love to have some more stories to get us through the next few weeks! If you’ve been thinking about submitting, now would be a GREAT time! Don’t forget that if you want to make your post anonymous, we have no problem with that!
Other things I wanted to mention:
- We’ll be looking for a new mod or two soon in the near future, someone who’s got access to posts and info and connections to great blogs run by/for POC, trans*, disabled, and other groups that don’t get as much exposure as we’d like. So if you’ve got a few spare hours a week and don’t mind queueing submissions, answering questions, and finding body positive posts, especially body positive from the aforementioned groups, to put in our queue, start thinking about applying! I’m going to make up an application process and hope to have it up and running soon!
- Have you seen a post that you think NEEDS to be on SHYB? Submit the link to us! You can either send us a fanmail with the link, or just use the submit page!
- We’ve got nearly 50,000 members here at SHYB, and it’s impossible for us mods to be able to go through every comment to every post. If you see someone making any negative comments on a post, or concern trolling, PLEASE inform us (you can submit the link to the post the offending comment/s are on) so we can take care of it! We all have to work together to keep SHYB as positive as possible!
- If you don’t already, feel free to follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page! :D
I think that’s about it! Thanks for following, thanks for joining the revolution, and thanks for being you!
Love,
