I may not be as impressive as the other wonderful women in this post, but I still have some muscle!
I reblogged this post yesterday or the day before thinking something along the lines of “wow these women are so gorgeous and ripped and I wish my muscles were that big but since then these pictures came into existence
and like maybe this post is EXACTLY where I belong.
Look at these strong ass women!
My poor gay heart can’t handle this. I am smol, throw me over your shoulder and carry me to Valhalla.
I’ve never seen women like me represented before!! This is me!
So I don’t know about you, but I’m often frustrated by the ridiculous smallness of girls’ pockets. At a bare minimum, I need to be able to shove my cellphone in there - come on, pants companies! So what I started doing was making myself pocket extenders. I’ve done this several times, for pants and shorts. It’s great.
I just got this pair of jeans, so I thought I’d show you how to do it. I kind of feel like it just hasn’t occurred to some of you that this is an option, so maybe now it will. All you need is your pants, some fabric (I just took a random piece from a scrap bin), a needle, and some thread (thread doesn’t even need to match the fabric since literally no one will see it).
See? Ridiculous. Like, half a cellphone, or only 2.5″. Useless.
So turn those inside out to expose the pockets.
Figure out how big you want your pockets to actually be. I kinda go by whatever looks like might be right. I didn’t
really measure them. Fold the fabric in half, so you have a pocket, and
then fold it in half again so you can have two equal ones.
Try to get the edges to line up enough, pin it in place, then sew up the sides! Are your stitches crazy uneven and wonky looking? Doesn’t matter; nobody’s going to see it. These are in the inside of your pants. The only thing that matters is that it holds up. So I double-did the corners, since those tend to get the most stress.
Cut open the bottom of the existing pockets.
Pin it in place, then sew around, joining the new pocket to the old pocket. I did this by keeping my hand on the inside, so I wouldn’t accidentally sew through the other side. Again, I reinforced the corners, and didn’t worry about what it actually looks like. Then I turned it in side out to make sure the inside was all joined properly.
Yay all done! And the pockets are so much bigger now!
Whaaaat I can fit my entire phone and entire hand and probably something else now, are girls’ pockets even allowed to do that?! Heck yeah they are.
I first found out about Courtney via NoFauxxx. I was maybe 19, and bored with what I found on the internet. Then I discovered NoFauxxx, a space for queer folks to post photos, like SuicideGirls but actually inclusive. I was far too intimidated to submit, but I rolled the idea around in my head, dismissing it the way the culture dismissed my body and my identity. I worried that “diversity” didn’t mean bodies like mine, so often deemed “bad fat” (including by “BBW” porn companies).
Now here I am ten years later, working as an assistant pornographer for TROUBLEfilms. I’m learning how to edit, how to shoot porn, how to troubleshoot a website. I’m getting paid a decent wage for it, and I get to work from home, naked, a good portion of the time. I get to be on set, making sure performers are taken care of, that the paperwork gets done and checks are made out to the right folks. I make sure everyone’s fed and that consent is paramount.
I also get to be in front of the camera, and I’ll be thrilled to have been a part of all four Lesbian Curves films. Next year, I even plan to have a go at making my own DVD, with Courtney’s support and my freshly learned skills. Just looking at these sets, I can see how much I’ve changed as a model and a performer- I used to be so closed off, working with cis straight men who were often creepy and felt they were entitled to my body for the little money they (sometimes) paid. In these shots, I’m open, not hiding my rolls or stretchmarks, but celebrating them. I’m not paid less for my body, or expected to do more dangerous things.
That should be the expectation, but in my experience, that respect for the value of my work and body is vital, and yet rare.
I thought I’d have to be slender, straight-passing, in my early 20s, and accommodating to the male gaze in order to succeed in porn, even indie porn, who felt I wasn’t “marketable”. Yet here I am, fat, queer, loud, and unabashedly myself. I’m fucking delighted that I am embraced, as I am, and that my own growing confidence inspires others. Guess what? I am valuable, sexy, desired. And yes, marketable.
Courtney saw in me something I didn’t realize I had, and they showed it to me through their lens, changing my life.
Now I have another option in the adult industry. GodsGirls has me in their purgatory section right now, with Courtney’s encouragement, and I’m hoping I get voted in by their members so I can add to the representation of fat queer femmes on the site. If you’re a member, maybe you can vote for me? If not and you’d like to join to support me, Chelsea Poe, and other models who are seeking to expand the porn industry’s gaze, then here’s a discount link.
Otherwise, please reblog as a way of showing your support- of me, and of a new era of porn. <3
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Given the season, we’ve focused on Pernas’ Halloween- or costume-related art, which will definitely inspire you to start thinking about creepy or creative Halloween costumes. But the multi-talented artist, who studied architecture before moving into photography and makeup art, creates beautiful lip makeup art all year long, so be sure to check out her website if you want to see more.
They already have done studies on trans women and will continue to do so. Trans women of color are the highest risk for HIV and other sti. There’s already funding out there which is why we know the statistical analysis and models that we have currently.
I am going to be in God’s Girls Purgatory on the 20th with the chance to be the first ever trans God’s Girls. Join here and you will get 50% off your membership!!!!! http://tinyurl.com/6c5xod4
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And yet you’re cool with forcing females to have to accept males Into their community? What about all the models - and there are many - who are really opposed to this but cannot speak about it without being excommunicated? Why aren’t the voices of already-established models given room?
Who are you? Do you understand how altporn works? Do you understand anything?
Firstly, trans women are not male. Trans women are female.
Secondly, Godsgirls as an existing community is not a female-only space. The overwhelming majority of our members are cis men that we interact with as part of our GG experience. Not to mention that we have at least one male staff member. We also have existing models that have been around for years that are genderqueer and non-binary.
Thirdly, GG models aren’t deleted or excommunicated for having an opinion. This may come as a surprise to you (as you obviously have no fucking clue about how the site works) but this was discussed by the models as a community. No-one was silenced, concerns were expressed and we came to a comfortable decision as a community of models.
Finally, the voices of already-established models? Maybe someone who has been on the site for for a while? Maybe for six years, since 2008? Maybe like me?
Trans women are not female. Female is a biological reality, not a feeling. Words matter. Science matters. Sex is not changeable. “”Gender queer”” and “”non binary”” are not tangible things. Gender itself is not a tangible real thing.
Sex is, and sex is by changeable no matter how you feel or “”identify”“. Identifying as blonde or being a blonde inside or ~knowing I’m blonde doesn’t make the hair that grows from my body any less brunette. Same way in that trans ness doesn’t make trans women any less male.
Male and female are biological realities that cannot be changed. No amount of hormones, surgery or saying so makes males women or females men.
Nope. Not only because you’re telling me that gender (“men” and “women”) is intangible, but you’re still conflating it with biological sex - which is not as simple as the binary of male and female, scientifically speaking - but arguing this point is entirely irrelevant, because Chelsea is going into Purgatory regardless of your transphobic bullshit.
Now, the way that Purgatory works is that members and models vote on potential GGs - so this great number of apparently disenfranchised and “silenced” models and members that you’ve mentioned have the power to exercise their voice in voting ‘No’, if they’re not comfortable with having a trans woman on the site.
Godsgirls is not an exclusively “female” space. It never has been. Your “women first always” attitude is a farce because Chelsea is a woman.
No. Chelsea isn’t.
“Woman” is just a descriptive word that simply means “adult female”, no different than “girl” simply means “child female”.
“Woman” is a categorical term to classify female human beings’ life stages. “Man” classifies male human beings into the adult stage, as well.
“Woman” can only be applicable to females.
One cannot “feel like” a woman any more than they can “feel like” a dinosaur or a redhead or an astronaut.
The only way to be a woman is to be a female human who is an adult.
Your views are not that of God’s Girls, their community or myself. Please leave myself and my purgatory session alone and stop forcing your views on what makes a woman onto God’s Girls, their models, the trans community and members of god’s girls who have shown support for me. I have been nothing but respectful in responding to you and I wish you do the same.
Chelsea is an awesome human being, if not for any other reason she should be on the site.
