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Welp, I almost missed another national holiday. Happy International Women's Day to all of the lovely, wonderful, brave women in the world! And I do mean ALL women, loves!

To celebrate, I decided to share this collage that I created as my first project for 2D Design this semester, back in January. This piece is about Eve taking back her power from God and Adam by turning to Satan for help. Sometimes drastic measures need to be taken to regain your bodily autonomy.

People are more than their biological functions.

Women are more than their biological functions.

Cis women are more than their uterus and their ability to carry and bear offspring.

Trans women are more than their lack of a uterus and inability to birth children.

To imply that a woman's ultimate purpose is to be a mother is not only misogynistic, it is transphobic. Because the people who say "women are meant to be mothers" certainly don't think trans women can be mothers, or should even be allowed to be mothers.

This piece originally sprang from my anger at Roe v Wade being overturned and from the absolute fury and anguish I feel when people invalidate my own identity as asexual and aromantic. And the grief and agony I experience when they invalidate the fact that even though I am an afab individual, and I am completely confident in my identity as a woman (and even love being a woman), I know that I am not meant to be able to reproduce. I shouldn't have that function. I am not meant to be considered motherly by any standard, be it biologicaly, adoptively, or even people looking up to me in that manner. Being called "motherly" literally causes me pain mentally and physically.

But considering the context of all the horrible things happening in the world, such as the many anti trans, anti drag show, anti free speech, pro book bans, pro white washing, pro forced birth, pro forced detransition, pro child abuse, laws and policies that are being proposed and passed, I cannot help but look back at my own work, which I have centered around my own turmoil as a woman and see the struggles of our trans sisters reflected within. Issues of bodily autonomy and being brushed aside by medical professionals affect ALL women.

I will never know their sorrow, not fully, not like I know my own. But whatever little good stating these truths online does, I will continue to do so.

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Day 2 of Smaugust 2022 done! I've always loved green, orange, and pink as a color combo, despite hating both orange and green on their own. I think the colors in this one give me sunsets and jewels vibes.

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Smaugust 2022 Day 1 done! I'm not used to posting on tumblr. My previous accounts were from middle school (we don't talk about those *flashbacks to homestuck*), but hopefully this one will be a little more streamlined. I really like the vibes of this one.