Self-Love Installment #2

WOMEN WHO HAVE INSPIRED ME TO HAVE HAIRY PITS
Ani Difranco
PJ Harvey
Diamanda Galas
Patti Smith
Diane Arbus
Amanda Palmer
Grimes
Hothead Paisan
Paula Cole
Clementine Morrigan
Rose Polenzani
Lydia Lunch

I started not shaving on and off in high school, and so far my senior year of high school is the longest I've ever gone without shaving my armpits.You can imagine how well that went over :P

I was and remain to be amazed at how THREATENED people-- both guys and girls-- feel by the patches of hair under my arms, not to mention my leg hair. I started a facebook club called "In Praise of Grrrls With Hairy Pits and/or Legs." I called it that to clarify that it's not just for grrrls who don't shave, but also for grrrls who shave but dig body hair on other women, and dig their reasons for not shaving.

Even more than loving my body hair, my main body image project right now is loving myself
at the weight I am. I try to eat right and exercise (the operative word being "try") but it's for my health, not so I can look like a skinny model. My doctor said the number on the scale isn't as important as staying active and eating healthy, and that I'm still within the healthy weight range for my height.

When you start noticing how many commercials are targeted towards weight loss, and furthermore how it's the norm to assume that people who are heavy want to lose weight, it's pretty disgusting. My "diet" now is that when I feel down on my body, I pop in  Margaret Cho DVD! It's just a little difficult because up until I was 19 I never weighed more than 105 lbs, and then in my 20s I gained a lot of weight. But everyone has been overwhelmingly supportive... one of my guy friends even said, "You have some tits and ass now! It's not a bad thing!"And T loves my body, especially when it's hairy. ;)

I love to see women flaunting their gorgeous body hair, and hopefully someday I can see my own full figure as gorgeous! :)


WOMEN WHO HAVE INSPIRED ME TO LOVE MY FULL FIGURE
Margaret Cho
Adele
Penelope Garcia
Venus of Willendorf
women in Rubens' paintings
Queen Latifah
Beth Ditto
Thora Birch
Kelly Osbourne (obviously until she lost weight)
Kelly Clarkson (same qualification)
most Hollywood actresses when they're pregnant
Diamanda Galas (since she gained weight)
Lydia Lunch
Clementine Morrigan