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Senior Member
How Do You Identify?:
Queer Stone Femme
Preferred Pronoun?:
Babe, she, her, ella
Relationship Status:
Well loved…
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,375
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Not about Fat but Positive-Confidence-Self Love
SELF-PORTRAIT II
Questing, a woman dares to reinvent herself.
—Dana Heller, The Feminization of Quest Romance
No more teacher clothes.
I want chamois shirts
and shorts with pockets I’ll need
for a trek in the Himalayas.
I want a tutu and overalls for my
new career as a ballerina electrician,
a carpenter’s apron and power tools
so I can work on Habitat for Humanity
and build my writing studio.
No more timidity, no cringing.
I can say “no” with grace
and my opinion about anything.
I don’t need your approval
and I won’t shrivel when you yell
or weep. I have limits, you know.
I will learn to climb sheer rocks,
fly a helicopter, handle bees
and embrace every dragon I meet.
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Happiness is like a butterfly which,
when pursued, is always beyond our grasp,
but, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
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