Beards Against Binarity: Not by the hairs of our chinny chin chins!
The flurry of executive orders issued in the last weeks has been an avalanche of cruelty for some of us. I have been feeling helpless, not knowing what I can do to help. I feel lost, a flop response to ever-compounding indignities of living in America. I guess it is shocking. I feel like I am not in my life or body, out in the dissociative ethers.
I am trying to take some action though. Taking action is one way to feel like I have a bit of control of an out of control situation. One of the most stupid developments is for our federal government to only recognize two genders. Not only is this scientifically proven to be bullshit, it is also cruel to people along the spectrum of sex and gender. I've decided to start my own personal little rebellion. As a person with PCOS, I have a lot of symptoms, including hirsuitism. I've started growing out my lady beard as a protest.
It has only been a couple weeks, and I don't go out very often into the world, but I have started to feel othered already. I usually dress hyperfeminine in dresses and sometimes petticoats and don't often leave home without doing my makeup. It will be interesting to see how this goes, how long I will last before I go back to shaving every day again. It is nice to not have as many ingrown hairs and razor burn and lumps and bumps from shaving, but the side eye I get is starting to annoy me. I plan to post updates as my experiment continues, and if other people who present as feminine and want to grow out their facial hair with me, I would love to start a club/hashtag/whatever to join together in protest of this totally dumb and bigoted order.
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