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1 year post op

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some really beautiful african architecture because honestly this site is so western-centric

mako

unknown

cameroon

burkina faso

mali

Ndebele

burkina faso

please add more if you can!

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Three months post op and wow it’s wild to be 27 and finally actually like being in your body

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yo being black and depressed is hard as fuck. being black with anxiety is hard as fuck. being black with a chronic illness or disability is hard a fuck. everybody expects you to be ‘strong’ at all times and no one sees black people as complex or nuanced enough to be capable of suffering. no one ever thinks we could possibly need help. and if you’re a black woman, the moment you stop thinking about others and try to tend to yourself you’re a selfish lazy ungrateful bitch.

support black people, esp women, who need help. don’t just call us strong or tell us we’ll get through it, help us. protect us. uplift us. allow us to be beings capable of suffering. give us the same space you’d give white women to express our pain and be there for us like you would for anyone else. 

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being creative and depressed at the same time is such a weird fucking feeling because yes i wanna make beautiful art and improve my skills but i also need to take this depression nap for eight hours and then cry for another four because im a failure

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2months post op, nipple on pedicle procedure with high scar placement. Andy Ives in Australia.

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This rules

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Video update of non binary top surgery with Andy Ives in Australia. Technique is Nipple on Pedicle procedure, with high scar placement. I’m one month post op and not on T :)

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4 weeks 3 days post op.

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A shit photo of my happy twink heart. 26 days post op top surgery with Andy Ives

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2018 is going to be the year that I fall in love with myself. I’m going to care for myself as much as I care for the people I love. I’m going to give to myself as much as I give to others. I’m going to rid myself of people in my life who make me feel anxious, sad, guilty, stupid and like I’m just too much. I’m going to spend my time only doing things that fill my heart and soul with warmth. I’m going to keep leaning into parts of myself that I do not like and learn to love them and grow from them. I’m going to listen to the red flags that other people show me and leave before I become more invested. I’m going to trust my instincts and trust what my body is telling me. Most importantly- I’m going to love myself more than I have ever loved another.

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my personality: i dont care about this thing

my bpd: yes you do

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Ana Maria in a Divide and Dissolve tee. Ink 💖 she framed this, this friendship is so important to me. And she has been taking such good care of me and my brain and body throughout our friendship but especially rn in top surgery recovery.

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My good mate jack and his good boy fox. Painted this tonight for jacks 31st birthday and put up progress pics. I sketched this from a pic on my phone of the two of them and then painted ink, it’s A4 and I did it in 3 hours. I’m so proud of me and so happy that today if the first day since top surgery I finally have energy back and capacity in my brain to do things other than watch Degrassi. It’s the first day post op that I don’t feel isolated in my brain and I’m so glad the familiar feeling of “this will never go away” has passed again.

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if magikarp can do nothing and then suddenly grow up to be really useful then so can i