herdirtylittleheart:

I am *constantly* having to defend these points to people in everyday life. I tell my Grandmother who wants to wear cap sleeves but feels she’s too old that they suit her and life is too short for other people’s fashion rules. I defend a family member who wears revealing clothing every time someone makes a snide remark, “You know one day we’ll all be old and then dead, why not enjoy your body while you’re here. Plus she looks fucking beautiful, fuck you!” The time for that piercing or tattoo or haircut you’ve always wanted is now, you’re not too old, it’s not too late, you’re not too fat or too tall or too flat and fuck anyone who would judge your temple and the way you choose to decorate it. The time for pink hair is now! The time to love yourself is now! Fuck anyone who is low enough to trash you for expressing yourself or feeling good in this body. Fuck policing the bodies of young women, old women, large women, naked women, modest women, butch women, breastfeeding women, all women. Fuck this mythology that pregnancy and motherhood erases or trumps your sexual identity. It’s a lie! Our culture likes to strip us of our power when we’re at our most powerful.

Fuck sexist school dress codes, I led a revolt in my middle school, little Heart the choir girl and her army of grade 7 girls in crop tops, they told us it was distracting to the male staff and I had a BIG FUCKING PROBLEM WITH THAT. (My parents we’re 100% behind me and my Dad shared all of his student activism tactics from the 70′s, he’s a legend.) What I learned from that experience is that usually when people are putting the focus on weak ass shit like this it’s because they’re trying to take the focus off of something else.

“When is ‘age appropriate’ when you get trashed at any age?” –The Third Pew