“I think there’s a misconception that people who dress up all the time do it for the acceptance or attention of others. I, like many others I know are living examples that this misconception is pure bullshit. People like me do not live to please you nor do we need your attention. God forbid we love ourselves enough to please ourselves by grooming and dressing ourselves nicely. God forbid we treat fashion as an art form. Would you like us better if we looked and felt more like you?”
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V.V (via vintagevandalizm)
Sometimes it’s a performative thing, yannow? In the past two years I decided to do high femme when I went out, and I called it “fancy”… because I am very tall and very fat, people tend to desexualise women who are as big as me… hell I’ve done it to myself. But when you put on a performance and play up the fance, it’s not just empowering but it’s transformative too. I started to feel myself as a woman who expressed more than the lazy shorthand of fatness.