Body Sculptures By GarlicSunshine (2)

I'm not okay. Took a mental health day to do my part and make some art about it. No matter the opposition, we won't be erased. A world without trans people has never existed, and it never will! 🏳️‍⚧️

May this piece be a small light in the darkness for those in need of comfort and hope. Feel free to share/re-post elsewhere if this resonates with you. Just please make sure you include the alt text!

i’m proud of you for facing the days you really don’t want to face

We are in a very mentally unwell period of history, so PLEASE schedule in time to make art and music, bake and cook, read and write, take walks, and things that take prolonged mental and physical effort. We must stay connected to our humanity and the activities that we enjoy that also help our mind and body. Please take breaks from dissociating to your screens.

““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

lowkey things are shaping up to be pretty odd

how’s that house that raised you?

me [coming to terms with a truth about myself]: hm..................................................... unfortunate

I need to see some transition timelines from fat transmascs / nonbinary folks / others on low dose testosterone aiming for androgyny