This is an ode to my 53yo body.
Every week, I post my photo on social media w/ caption “#ThisIs53.
I want to be seen, 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. feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
#perimenopause
Every week, I post my photo on social media w/ caption “#ThisIs53.
I want to be seen, 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. feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
#perimenopause
A statuette of Nefertiti and a quote by Bruce Lee have become central to my endeavour.
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I was at start of #Perimenopause and utterly oblivious when I met Standing Nefertiti. Now I’ve caught up with her. My belly nods at her belly, knowingly; in the way that when you’re the only person of colour in a white space you nod knowingly when you see another person of colour 
Standing Nefertiti is a middle aged woman saying “Look at me, breasts and belly and all.”
And 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.” #Perimenopause
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And 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.” #Perimenopause
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