#imfemalewarrior

[hopelessvalentines]

i am changing every second!!!!!

@lovelysuggestions @geyser2 @imfemalewarrior

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Photos: Brazil’s female sumo wrestlers breaking barriers

Brazilian women who practise sumo want to spread this form of ‘dynamic, strategic, fast, and exciting wrestling’.

If the phrase “sumo wrestler” calls to mind a hefty Asian man in a loincloth, Valeria and Diana Dall’Olio, a mother-daughter sumo wrestling team from Brazil, have a message: think again.

The Dall’Olios are used to people saying they are too small, too fragile or too female to practise a sport typically associated with hulking Japanese men.

But they say that is just fuel for their fighting spirit when they get in the dojo – the ring.

“There’s a lot of prejudice. When you say you practice sumo, some people think you have to be fat,” Valeria, 39, said, as she prepares for a competition at a public gym in Sao Paulo.

“Women are always under a microscope in the martial arts, because they’re sports that have generally been restricted to male fighters.”

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Tagging @warriormale and @imfemalewarrior.

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[elsewhereuniversity]

Could I have a name please? I am starting grad School soon. I offer an old white marble and an acorn.

Catoptri, and I wish you the absolute best of luck!

[mikaeled]

Cassandra Martin's Heavy Back Workout

[imfemalewarrior]

Virago means a Woman Warrior (pronounced veer-ah-go). Granted this is an archaic definition of the word. Today it has much more “negative” connotations, synonymous with other words for *ahem* difficult Women: shrew, dragon, vixen, witch, hellcat, she-devil, spitfire, hag, gorgon, fury, ogress, harpy, nag, battleaxe, old bag, old bat, cow, old cow, bitch. It’s adjective form is Viragine/Viraginity. 

I’ve seen all of these words slung at Women that make waves, Women who are bosses, and Women that fight for equality.

So, let’s reclaim this word for ourselves.

-FemaleWarrior

[seraphic-sapphic-safehaven]

Assumption: you like romcoms?

Oh absolutely yes!! I'm a huge sucker for romcoms lmao

Send me your impressions or assumptions about me!

[nonbinaryresource]

Thank you for being explicitly inclusive/supportive of aspecs and our terms.

Of course! This blog has a history of having at least some aspec mods, one current active one being myself. =)

~Tera

[jecook]

I think female warrior blocked me but I don’t know why she would? I was a big fan of her stuff and we had chatted a few times. We were even mutuals and I was really happy about that. Idk why she would’ve blocked me but I’m really bummed about it.

[name-exchange]

i’d like to donate my dead name, morgan, of the sea. it’s gender neutral, but despite my deep ties to the sea, it still wasnt me. i’d also like to donate dawn, which i’m using an alternative now. treat them with care, names are deeply important.

I’m sure someone will care for these names deeply and treat them very well. 

[billy-ate-the-pineapple]

me everytime @imfemalewarrior posts:

[mizutsunecafe]

body positivity is rly good but even if i share positive messages it isn't always enough for me in my own mind. and honestly? exercising just one day has already helped me feel so much more in tune with my body and myself as a whole. even with so many people praising curves and "real bodies" or whatever i still feel weird bc my body type isn't conventionally attractive. but i started thinking and honestly i think the root of my issues isn't the fat on my body, it's the lack of physical strength. i've always felt physically weak and out of shape so even when i felt strong in other ways i never felt empowered in my physical self. so i decided to change that and try to get stronger. the idea, i suppose, is that if i can do more tasks for myself, and if i have the physical strength to back up my words when i take a stand, i'll have the courage to make those statements and stand up for myself. i'm planning to go later today and work out again, but by lifting weights and doing the bike machine and junk i just... you become acutely aware of your limits and instead of thinking "i can barely lift five pounds what's wrong with me" if you approach it like "hey i can work towards this, lifting five pounds is a goal i can make progress towards until it's effortless" is so much better going all in is good and all but transitioning to a new lifestyle doesn't have to be all at once. just go in with the attitude that you WILL be this better version of yourself a couple months down the line or even that you'll be a little bit better a week from now, and a little bit better than that a month from now- it's so much better than just going all in and then beating yourself up for not getting results. like right now i'm focusing on exercising on a regular basis and eating a little bit better. i already eat pretty decently but i've got bad impulse control, so i'm trying to eat fewer snacks. i've been doing that for a few weeks now and i think i'm getting the hang of limiting myself to one or two. i just started working out, but i think i've got a decent idea in my head of what i want to do there. i want to improve my endurance through cardio and i want to improve my physical strength through weightlifting. like i know people say it all the time but i already feel so much better than i did this time a week ago. my body hurts a little bit yeah but mentally i feel so so much better. i've always admired strong women in movies and books and games but i guess i never thought i'd be one myself. but i decided screw it, i'll do it too, it might take me a long time but i'll get there!! and it's cheesy but the whole "journey of a thousand miles starts with one step" thing is so ridiculously true. even though the path is a long one i'm already on it, i'm not gonna cop out on it now. honestly though, becoming aware of your limits is the first step to growing past them. seriously if you're able to get up and move right now- stretch and really feel how your body moves. you'll feel so much better just from that i promise!!! we're all on this journey together so there's no reason to not want to challenge yourself and improve yourself. honestly the end goal for me is to be able to lift a decent amount of weight and be able to walk, run, bike, whatever- move for a good period of time without having to stop. i've got girls to look up to and i'm gonna push myself without hurting myself this time- physically or mentally. if i hit a setback then oh well, i'll just keep trying. you never improve if you don't try to improve!! staying the same ain't what you should shoot for. aim for your best in all things.

[imfemalewarrior]

I am sick of the body policing to which I am subjected as a Woman. 

My heritage is written in the hair on my lip, and in between my eyes, and on my legs and arms and back and belly and fingers and toes and everywhere I have it. The hair on top of my head is hair that is shared by my mother, and grandmother, and great grandmother, and great great grandmother, and on and on and on back to the first of us to ever live. The hair on my unibrow (that I was always encouraged to remove) connects me to my family that lived thousands of years ago in Ancient Greece, when unibrows were considered beautiful and desirable. I hope mine grows back in healthy and strong, for I want to be connected to those Women. Why am I encouraged to remove so much of my hair? To make myself more palatable? Smaller? To waste my time with its removal? Why am I considered dirty for having it? 

My appetite is called ‘the Greek belly’ on the island from where my family comes, why am I judged for eating enough food to satisfy myself and sustain me? 

The muscles I have developed from training in Martial Arts are the result of discipline and hard work and eating, and I will have to do a lot more of those things to see them grow bigger the way I want them to be. Why am I encouraged to try and use exercise as a way to lose weight and tone my muscles, to shrink myself smaller? 

I’m just frustrated and ranting about my own experiences; but, let’s make this a discussion. Women, what is your perspective on these topics? 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

‘Anyone could be a threat’: In Bolsonaro’s Brazil, LGBT people take personal defense into their own hands

Miguel Doldan couldn’t get the thought out of his head: People wanted him dead. The passersby on the streets, the riders on the bus — they looked friendly, but many of them, he often reminded himself, had voted for President Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing politician who said he’d rather have a dead son than a gay one.

Brazil was no longer the country he thought it was. And Doldan — a trans man increasingly aware that he was only 5 feet 4 inches tall and 121 pounds — needed to learn how to fight.

He found what he was looking for down a darkened street in central Rio, where the only light one recent evening came from an open-air gym. There was a group of a dozen or so people — gay or transgender all — who were training to meet the violence they increasingly fear they’re likely to face in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.

In a country with one of the world’s highest rates of violence against gay and transgender people, where social media is deluged with homophobic rants, some LGBT people no longer trust the state to protect them — and are now taking personal defense into their own hands. Martial arts classes for LGBT people are being taught in some of the country’s biggest cities — in Rio, Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre. Some in the community say they’ve considered arming themselves.

“The country has changed,” said Doldan, 28. “Before, there was a sense that there were institutions that could help you. Judges, police, justice officials — you could rely on them. But now people feel comfortable saying things they wouldn’t have before and more comfortable doing things they used to not.”

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[name-exchange]

I would like to donate the name Jessica May. a lovely name... but not for a non binary bb

I’m sure someone just as lovely will be happy to have the name. 

[weebisexual]

Thank you @imfemalewarrior for your input on how using doe/stag can be quite harmful and also how butch and femme have been inclusive in the queer community and not just lesbian terms

hi! i don't mean to be rude about this, but i've heard that "femme" is a lesbian-only term. "doe" is used to describe feminine bisexual women. :)

Yes, but recently femme is becoming more than a lesbian-only term and non lesbian queer womxn who are feminine can describe themselves as femme. If you wanna id as femme you can, same with wanting to id as doe.

Also a lot of people don't want to use animal terms to describe themselves.

- Mod Éimear 🌷