nicowantsthediangelo:

suitofhumour:

theconcealedweapon:

existentialismandmakeup:

suite-dee-reynolds:

swiftlywiththefoxes:

feministism:

January 2019:

I lost weight when I went on my medication initially because it made me very sick and when I told people that was why, more than a couple would say stuff like “I wish I could get some of that” like you want a weird disorder that is awful and to be violently ill? just to be skinnier?

“After I got the biopsies, they did another mammogram. And I had to have my shirt off. And I was standing there at the machine. And the technician said, oh my gosh, you have such a flat stomach. What is your secret? And I was like, oh, I’m dying.“

-Tig Notaro

More proof that the ideal of thinness never had anything to do with health.

I figured out that something was seriously wrong when my mom rapidly lost weight and it is still heartbreaking for me that she argued for a week about it being GOOD because she was slimmer. It took so much of persuasion to get her to visit the doctor where they confirmed that she has metastatic cancer. The fact that we’re in a system where symptoms of terrible conditions are considered okay as long as you look ‘slim’ is a nightmare and we’re living it.

My best friend had a parasitic illness in her stomach that caused her to throw up all the tine. I told her so many times to see a doctor but she thought it was okay because she was loosing weight so fast. Seriously if you start loosing weight at an abnormal speed please see a doctor.