Earlier this year, I started posting photographs of myself on social media with the caption “#ThisIs53. It is not my birthday. I want you to see a 53 year old woman.”
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https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1390357147427483653
I wanted to be seen. Not to be told, as I often have, that I don’t “look my age.” That is not the compliment some people think it is. But to say “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,” at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed.
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1416733795059970049
This is an ode to my 53-year-old body: breasts, belly, first period in 10 months and all.
Read, share and subscribe: thank you! feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
Read, share and subscribe: thank you! feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
In my 30s and 40s, people would tell me I didn’t look my age, as if it were a compliment.
What does it mean to hear “you don’t look your age” when you rarely see women your age?
Now in my 50s, the best compliment would be to look my age and so I post #ThisIs53 📷 @rerutled
What does it mean to hear “you don’t look your age” when you rarely see women your age?
Now in my 50s, the best compliment would be to look my age and so I post #ThisIs53 📷 @rerutled
Now millennia after Nefertiti, I understand that my power comes from saying “I am a middle aged woman. Look at me, breasts and belly and all.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
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