I refuse to hate my body

2026-08-19 08:51

From blog The Feminist Gadabout

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I refuse to hate my body

It is was it is There’s nothing like pregnancy, childbirth, and a birthday ending in 0 or 5 (I’ll let you guess which) to get you thinking about your body. I’m months out from giving birth to my second child, and it’s safe to say my body has been on a journey. We live in a society, and I believe a particular historical moment, which both encourages child bearing, and yet is also outwardly disgusted by what it does to women’s bodies. We are expected to grow children (that fertility crisis isn’t going to fix itself), then return to the same bodies we had not even before pregnancy, but almost before puberty. That is, if...

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