What I Wore: Navigating the Heteronormative Patriarchy, Pt. 5
Featuring the outdoor music festival, the mall, and the electronic store!
Featuring the outdoor music festival, the mall, and the electronic store!
Even though we didn’t get to see enough of her, Barb has excellent fashion sense, and now you can too!
During this month of your birth, you should put your charm on display by wearing something from this tasteful yet summery collage and pretending that you’re on the beach.
So you want to dress like Dr. Jillian Holtzman from Ghostbusters in your real, everyday life? You and the rest of us, friend.
We’ve got looks that speak to Bratty Femmes, Gender Non-conforming Haus Bois, Fat Femmes, Androgynous Babes and beyond.
Highlight: the Heterosexual Pride Parade
Making an appearance: the turquoise ring.
Live happily ever after in the wedding suit of your dreams thanks to Wildfang.
This week I’m a short short enthusiast, an Earth Mother, and a Mother Earth stan.
Feel free to say: “SOS, send help, everyone is too good-looking!”
“Making bra is like building a bridge.”
This outfit consisting of a rapidly deteriorating sweater, pleather pants, and a jacket made into a demi-skirt flashed me forward into a dystopian future where water is scarce but total gender/orientation presentation acceptance is not.
Ari Fitz debuts PROMBOYISH, a two-part miniseries spotlighting solid tomboy prom looks.
To a casual viewer, this might seem like a down home, girl next door outfit. Oh, just some casual slip-ons, a jersey top, cut-off jean shorts and a baseball hat. Hey y’all! But then it’s like, oop, nope, that’s just a bra.
“I suggest power poses whenever you want to feel more like an adult regardless of whether or not you are wearing children’s clothing.”
“When I want to go for a drink at a bar where I know the crowd will be overwhelmingly straight, I take great strides to ensure a look that says I’m both sexually unavailable and I might attempt to convert you to a new religion.”
I think I’d gotten it into my head that disability is always, on some level, supposed to feel bad. Like if I fought myself all the time, I was somehow doing it right. I worried that if gave up the femininity I’d worked so hard for, I’d just be giving in. As someone who has a lot of privilege, I thought it was my job to be the right kind of woman, even if I didn’t enjoy it.
Although there is a time and place for inexpensive high street finds, it’s positive to see the industry move towards making higher quality garments accessible to larger sized folks, who want more than just “flattering” fit and flare dresses.
“Objectively, aesthetically, I find women’s clothes attractive. Just… on other women. But I’m intensely uncomfortable wearing them. There’s something about the way they’re made that make me feel like I’m on display. And that’s true, isn’t it? Women are always on display because they are always someone else’s property. Everyone else’s property.”
“Ladies, let this be the year of #netflixandcozy.”