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My tip is to stop using the word dysphoria as an umbrella term for all of your discomfort and instead break down all of your symptoms and work on each of those separately. Ex: "the idea of people seeing me as a woman makes me dysphoric -> feel anxious" (then look up ways to handle anxiety), "seeing my breasts makes me dysphoric -> want to rip them off (or something similar)" (look into ways to combat thoughts of self harm, for example I started drawing on myself with markers to give me something else to look at), "I associate women with feminity, so identifying as a woman makes me dysphoric -> feel like I don't belong" (work on changing your mental definition of a woman, I did this both by unfollowing almost all of the feminine women on my social media and replacing them with other gnc women (this doesn't have to be a permanent change if you don't want it to, do what works best for you) and by writing my own stories where women were represented the way I wanted to be seen (I did this because I found it really difficult to find media like that already made))

Dysphoric radfems sound off with tips on how you deal with it

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There are other women like you. There are other women who think the way you think, who feel the way you feel, who act the way you act. There always have been and there always will be. Womanhood isn’t whatever shallow archetype the world has tried to convince you that it is. It’s going to be okay.

These 🌹💐🌹💐💐🌸🌺🌹🌺🌷🌸💐🌺🌹🍫🌹💐🍫🍫🌹🌺🌸🌷🍫💐🌸💐🌺🌹🍫🌷🌷🌺🌸🌷🌺🌸🌺🌹🌹🌹🌷🌺🌺🌸🌺🌹🌹🌷💐🌸💐💐🌺🌹🌸💐🌸🌹🍫🍫🌺🌷🌹🍫🍫🍫 💐🌷r for my mutuals on this valentines day <3

The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars. The dust and spiral arms of normal spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, appear flat when viewed edge-on. This Hubble Heritage image of ESO 510-G13 shows a galaxy that, by contrast, has an unusual twisted disk structure, first seen in ground-based photographs.

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NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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i love women. in the feminist way and in the gay way. happy international women’s day

How To See Comet NEOWISE, Earth’s Most Spectacular Comet Since 2007

“From Earth, these comets typically appear brightest during closest approach. Bright, naked-eye comets are rare, with 1997’s Hale-Bopp serving as our most recent “great comet.” Since then, only 2007’s Comet McNaught was comparable, primarily to southern hemisphere observers. But in July of 2020, Comet NEOWISE will put on Earth’s greatest cometary show in 13 years. With a 6,800 year orbital period, it last appeared before the wheel was invented. On July 3, 2020, it reached perihelion, surviving a perilous encounter with the Sun.”

Most potentially exciting comets fizzle rather than sizzle, but Comet NEOWISE is looking to be an exception. On July 3, it passed its closest to the Sun, surviving the encounter and brightening significantly. Very close to the Sun right now from our perspective, it’s just about to transition from a pre-dawn to a post-sunset comet. You can easily see it with binoculars if you know where to look (images in the article), but it will continue to brighten until July 23, 2020, where it just might become the most spectacular comet in more than a decade.

Comet NEOWISE is already here, and now begins your chance to see it, particularly if you live in the northern hemisphere. Get out there and look!

The star cluster Westerlund 2 by europeanspaceagency

i know this is a hard to swallow pill but patriarchy does not care why you perform femininity, who you perform it for, or how you feel about it