natalunasans reblogged
“It is a campaign whose only selling point is self-love.”
natalunasans reblogged
disabled bodies are beautiful. bodies with atrophied muscles are beautiful. bodies with missing limbs are beautiful. bodies with surgery scars are beautiful. bodies with fused fingers are beautiful. bodies that shake & tremble are beautiful. bodies that sit in wheelchairs are beautiful. bodies that support themselves with canes & walkers are beautiful. bodies that jerk & spasm are beautiful. bodies with blind & missing eyes are beautiful. bodies with tubes in them are beautiful. bodies with hypermobile joints are beautiful. bodies with joints that creak & pop are beautiful. bodies with joints that don’t move at all are beautiful. disabled bodies are beautiful. disabled people are beautiful. we are beautiful
Everything doesn’t have to be beautiful to have value.
i already answered a message addressing this the day i made this post but what i said was important & i think i said it well then so i’m just going to repeat myself. beauty is not the be all end all. i never said it was. i personally find ugliness to be very liberating & of course disabled people have value beyond & aside from beauty however. saying that disabled bodies are beautiful is radical. it is it is significant. it is crucial. we are told over & over again that our bodies are hideous & unloveable or at best neutral, incapable of beauty or ugliness in their hypermedicalization. do you have any idea how it crushes your self worth to have your body constantly robbed of any capacity for beauty? beauty is not the most important thing in the world. but it can be so healing & validating & wonderful to be told that you are beautiful in a world that insists that you cannot possibly be. & that is important