"When people talk about gender-affirming surgery using words like “mutilation,” that's not very nice. Is that how you think about people who've had surgery for other things? It's a disgust reaction, and I do not take disgust into account as a legitimate point of discourse. I don't have to entertain it and I'm not going to. It's a waste of everybody's time, it's knee-jerk, it's not grounded in reality, and it's not useful. And it's a squeamishness about medical intervention. I think the idea of making legislative or cultural decisions in and around [that] is laughable. Your squeamishness is not what the world turns on; it doesn't matter."
Liv Hewson in Teen Vogue (italics added by me for emphasis)
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"I cannot tell you the complete, fundamental shift that I have felt in the year since having surgery. I knew that I wanted top surgery for a decade; it's the longest I've ever thought about doing anything. The place where I went, I had that clinic's website open on my laptop for five years. It was this impossible mountain: I want that, but I'm never gonna get it. No one's gonna let me, blah, blah, blah. To have that be in the past now... I stand differently, I walk differently, I carry myself differently. It feels different in my body than it ever has. I have just never been happier. I've never been more centered. I've never felt more stable and present and alive. It's the best thing I've ever done for myself. It’s taught me a lot. The recovery process taught me about rest, accepting help, and caring for my body as something connected to me rather than separate from me, that I’m in opposition to: This is mine and I want to take care of it. I feel good in it and good about it. Part of cis people's fear around gender-affirming surgery is the fear of surgery at all — 'Oh, my God, but that's painful and scary!' My reaction to that is, 'No, no, you misunderstood. It was painful before. Your worry has kicked in at the wrong time. The right time to be concerned was about the pain I was in before this. I'm great now.' Everybody else's concern for me has been on a delay. There's no need to be concerned anymore. That's so freeing."
@lgbtqcreators creator meme: [7/8] lgbtq+ celebs — LIV HEWSON
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Been working all week on these ones!!!
Think I'm gonna get them printed on a shirt, I'm still not sure 🤠🤙🏼
Anyways, I FUCKING LOVE YELLOWJACKETS 💛
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"She's gay, she's a jock, she's funny, and she's kind. Pretty immediately I felt a physical comfortability playing her. I was just a kid in a sandbox. There are tiny things — the mustache was a really good example — when I just felt real freedom with her. Even back when I didn't have a lot of information to go on about who this person was, it was like, 'No, I know who she is, and I'm going to have a lot of fun here.' Little touches like that were really important to me, to bring to her and to the show, that kind of physical, queer sensibility." ━ Liv Hewson
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