Bushes

I like them big, wild and untamed

I was recently kicked off Facebook after eleven years of running my feminist activist business page there, with 15,000 followers and a really strong interaction base. I created and organized events there and inspired so many people. A few months before the presidential inauguration day (they removed my page forever the morning after), Facebook began shadowbanning me real hard, but prior to that I would have close to 800-2K likes per post, which is really a lot for pages like mine. In the eulogy for my page that I wrote last week, I shared a bunch of memories and rediscovered this article Cosmopolitan magazine wrote about my stand for self-love in 2015. The article was called This Mom Just Did The Most Amazing Thing To Help Strangers Love Their Bodies (which I think is a beautiful title, btw) and when I originally shared it on Facebook with my fans and followers I wrote, “And then I end up in one of the magazines that nearly destroyed my body image as a teen as a FEARLESS FAT FEMINIST REBEL. I could DROP THE MIC RIGHT HERE, BUT I WON’T LET GO.” I don’t know if Cosmo is still the arbiter of all things teenage girl, but they did just declare 2025 The Year of the Bush, where they wrote, “Pubic hair, a surprisingly controversial topic, is having a moment thanks to a growing TikTok trend that all started with an Etsy review. For most people who grew up in a society where pubic hair was considered shameful and unhygenic, proudly rocking a bush is a radical act.”