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ashleyaron: This weekend I participated in one of the most...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:52:24 -0700

This weekend I participated in one of the most inspiring and electrifying shows of life. Leadfoot - Vancouver’s own butch choir put together a beautiful night and I was privileged to be a part of it. I’m still vibrating!

Here I am fronting the handsome devils on Rumour Has It.

on cultivating momements of whimsy and connection in my life as a survival tool

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:01:20 -0700

mmmajestic:

lez be real pals, i get really fucking bogged down sometimes. i have recently started to realize that having whimsical experiences and having heart connections with others are coping mechanisms form me and make me feel ‘spiritually rich’ as jessica would say. here are some examples of how i make myself feel better when shit feels hard. this list is really incomplete and will be very different for everyone, but maybe it will get your imagination flowing.

1. light sparklers and drink whiskey in the gnarled garry oaks on an eerie spring night with someone you love

2. bake a pie for someone or a group of people you really care about (preferably strawberry basil) and surprise them with it!

3. share food and love and words with others

3. don’t hang out with people if you don’t want to and try not to apologize for finding large group hangouts where only small talk is possible insufferable and shallow. invite only blanket forts are more my speed.

4. MAKE YOURSELF A BAKED DIP OF ANY KIND (you will never, ever regret this) and watch some fantasy movies (if you’ve never seen legend, start there)

5. dress up in fun outfits and go play outside. don’t be afraid of your imagination.

6. take pleasure in the beauty of nature and get as close to it as you can. i like to bird watch, or lie back and look at the clouds. i like to watch sunsets and splash in puddles and smell flowers.

7. adorn yourself with as many sparkly things as possible, take excessive vanity shots or just enjoy the way you look on your own

8. say the things that you are grateful for about yourself, your body, your loved ones out loud or write them down.

SPARKS NOTES: food, nature, love, rhinestones

mmmajestic: heavypettingtalktv: HEAVY PETTING: Episode 2 SELF...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:42:30 -0700

mmmajestic:

heavypettingtalktv:

HEAVY PETTING: Episode 2

SELF LOVE 101!

subtitled version here

This week we’re talking about Self Love! Its an important tool for life and a vital building block for the topics we’ll be talking about here on out on Heavy Petting. Self love enriches your relationships with others, but most importantly yourself.

Remember to be compassionate and patient with yourselves Heavy Petters!

Here’s the link to our video on Intuitive Eating that we talk about in the video

self love 101!

Ashley Aron, Bitch: Crema

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:35:21 -0700

Ashley Aron, Bitch: Crema:

ashleyaron:

Last night I had a vivid dream about crema. I was pouring shots and watching the thick caramelized sugar swirling in ribbons slowly dissipate over and over again, left repeatedly staring quizzically into the murky darkness of the coffee beneath it.

I woke at 4:24 am in sweats and quickened…

Ashley Aron, Bitch: Kiss my fat, neutral ass theatre school

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:58:51 -0700

Ashley Aron, Bitch: Kiss my fat, neutral ass theatre school:

ashleyaron:

The other day I got in trouble in my acting class for wearing gold nail polish and drawing on my eyebrows. We are expected to come to class with a “neutral body”. That means no make up and no nail polish because, wait for it…”It’s a mask underneath which hides our truer, realer, more authentic…

THAT'S SO MAJESTIC: A Majestic Guide: Finding Clothes and looking Fancy as a Fat Genderqueer

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:58:19 -0700

THAT'S SO MAJESTIC: A Majestic Guide: Finding Clothes and looking Fancy as a Fat Genderqueer:

mmmajestic:

The lovely Little-Mx-Switch just asked me this question, and since I love to procrastinate thought I would make a little guide because I get these questions a lot.

Question: “Hey Majestic! I was wondering if you had any tips for how to look awesome in clothing that is more masculine when…

mmmajestic: TW: light conversation on the topic disordered...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:14:14 -0800

mmmajestic:

TW: light conversation on the topic disordered eating

HUNGRY VIRGINZ: Intuitive Eating 101 (subtitles here)

In this video Jessica and I move away from the hilarity of unbridled Hungry Virginity storytelling videos of the past and have an informative afternoon tea party discussing the merits of Intuitive Eating and how it might help people with disordered eating habits (or just people who want to love food more/differently) in reclaiming, celebrating, and re-negotiating their relationships with food. Yay! This video is long and I am almost unbearably dorky, but we hope you watch it and share it with people that it might help.

RESOURCES

What Is Intuitive Eating? (click to find out more!)

What have our fat fairy god mothers said about this?

Lesley Kinzel wrote about it here and here

Marianne Kirby wrote about it here, here, here, here, here and here

Kate Harding wrote about it here, here, here and here

we love all of you so much! xoxo

Majestic and Jessica

Photo

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:19:00 -0800

Thank Goddess for femmes and those who worship them. Last night,...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:14:15 -0800

Thank Goddess for femmes and those who worship them.

Last night, I had dinner with a new femme friend and she painted my nails and we talked and talked and talked. And as we talked, her adorable partner came home, lit us a candle, chatted for a bit and disappeared into the bedroom to give us space - withdrawing only to replenish the hot water in our tea pot.

As she brushed the lacquer onto my fingers, my hands resting on a fancy fashion glossy, we told each other pieces of our herstories - our queer community woes, first loves, bad haircuts, and those early moments when the word “femme” blew quietly from our bubble-gum lips.

This lovely ritual felt rejuvenating and nurturing and…complicated. It made my heart yearn for Majestic.

I came home and cried and ached for the evenings we would stay up past our bedtime and paint our toes. Those nights we talked shit about misogyny, but more importantly, colour combinations. Those early-morning photo shoots with our across-the-hall bedroom doors flung open, trading tender heart secrets and hard-won opinions, silky scarves and leather belts, and no-this-colour-looks-better-on-you lipsticks.

It’s not a six foot long hallway that separates us now, but a rich, tempestuous ocean.

But, Majestic, I make myself glamorous for you. I always will.

mmmajestic: ashleyaron: It’s Kingsley Cricket, my precious...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:51:33 -0800

mmmajestic:

ashleyaron:

It’s Kingsley Cricket, my precious guy. This is the first song that we ever collab’d on and it is very dear to my heart, just like the gemstone himself. That’s me in the background!

beautiful voices, beautiful people, beautiful song. listen listen listennnn.

i’m meeting up with Kingsley tonight to record my harmony for another incredible song for his album and i am way excited

If we lived in the same city, we’d make a band that brought the world to its knees.

Ashley Aron, Bitch: Invasive Interaction Du Jour

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:22:15 -0800

Ashley Aron, Bitch: Invasive Interaction Du Jour:

ashleyaron:

Ground floor. Suit gets on the elevator.

1st floor.

SUIT: So, how’s the baby factory?

ME: Baby factory?!

SUIT: Yeah. Suit gestures to my abdomen.

ME: Slow head shake, direct eye contact. Nope…just a fat girl.

SUIT: Really?! Suit opens my jacket and touches my body to make sure I’m not…

Self-care, bitches.

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:52:00 -0800

Self-care, bitches.:

ashleyaron:

I gotta be honest, kids. Things are rough. This thing happens when the people that made you die, where you stop knowing how to take care of yourself. It’s like when your mom goes away for the weekend and leaves you in the house to fend for yourself and you eat nothing but frozen pizza for three…

mmmajestic: The different parts of my gender crash together...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:50:35 -0800

mmmajestic:

The different parts of my gender crash together wildly, like a demolition derby. Most of the time it feels exciting and fun, but it is also frightening and painful at times. Today I shaved my face for the first time ever and while it was happening I felt a mixture of fear, uncertainty and mischievous joy. I can feel certain aspects of masculinity creeping in to the way that I understand myself and perform my gender and it unsettles me because I feel like I haven’t yet learned how to celebrate, re-purpose or trust it in the same way I have with femininity. Embodying masculinity with integrity is an intense responsibility that I don’t always feel ready for. Hot damn, that gender category comes with a lot of fucking baggage, entitlement and power, and I do not know if I am wise enough to navigate that in ways that don’t hurt other people. Gender seems so much bigger than me sometimes. It permeates everything around me in such complicated ways. Ways that I fear are unspeakable, although I guess I’m talking now. The lack of control and choice I have in this process shakes me in ways I would rather not admit. Still, here I am doing me as hard as ever, buying rogaine, shaving my face, going out in public and staring back into the eyes of those who try to erase and belittle me with their gaze. I don’t have the answers right now, so I guess all I can do is let this thing kick the shit out of me while speaking from my heart and wearing lipstick to the party.

Love always,

Majestic

ashleyaron: Fatshion February #16: New Hair Editon! My lovely...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:58:15 -0800

ashleyaron:

Fatshion February #16: New Hair Editon!

My lovely date-turned-friend-turned-roommate-turned-partner-turned friend, Kingsley Cricket came to Vancouver and we recorded a bunch of songs for his debut album together. We took a narcism break in between takes to snag some hot pictures of my new hair (tits) in the bathroom. Everything I’m wearing here is thrifted.

*Check out the musical stylings of Kingsley, Majestic, and Julia (aka BoyBand) here and here.

ashleyaron: Fatshion February: Ocean Edition Today I had all...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:29:45 -0800

ashleyaron:

Fatshion February: Ocean Edition

Today I had all these lofty plans of cleaning my house but then I went outside and noticed that THE GODDAMN SUN WAS OUT and I threw my To Do list in the recycling and hopped on the bus with my friend and we went to the beach.

Top: Sirens

Skirt: Old Navy

Belt: Crafted by my witch friend

Boots: Mz. Mooz

ashleyaron: Fatshion February Day 11: Brunching With Babes...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:30:05 -0800

ashleyaron:

Fatshion February Day 11: Brunching With Babes Edition

Today my friend, Lincoln, called me as I was sitting on my bed absolutely naked with a full face of makeup and a toque on, having all but given up on the day’s outfit and gave me a reason to get fancy. Thank christ.

Cardigan: gifted by Majestic

Skirt and Scarf: thrifted

Tank: U.N.ME

Boots: Seychelles

HUNGRY VIRGINS: EVERYTHING WAS TIM TAMS AND NOTHING...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:39:00 -0800

HUNGRY VIRGINS: EVERYTHING WAS TIM TAMS AND NOTHING HURT

subtitles HERE

Apparently everyone except us has been slamming the shit out of Tim Tams since they were born or something and we were born under a rock but we care not, because now Tim Tams are in our lives for keeps

heyfatchick:

mmmajestic:

tangledupinlace:

Tim Tam Fam Slam

We are actually the goddamn Brady Bunch. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest Tim Tam provider.

Thank you Frances, you perfect peach

HUNG-RY VIRGINZ

(For background, as a wedding present, I sent Jessica/tangledupinace and Erin/mmmajestic a box of a tim tams - 2 packs of original, 2 packs of double coat, and 2 packs of caramel.)

TRANSPACIFIC OBESITY EPIDEMIC. Each biscuit is a chocolate-coated cuddle from me. <33333333

mmmajestic: cupcakes with the hungry virgin fam look at how...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:37:35 -0800

mmmajestic:

cupcakes with the hungry virgin fam

look at how fucking precious and in her element julia looks

Ashley Aron, Bitch: I started a blorg.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:27:33 -0800

Ashley Aron, Bitch: I started a blorg.:

ashleyaron:

Dudes, check it out! I started a new blog. I left Facebook so now I need somewhere to post pictures of my cleavage and be self-deprecating. I also need somewhere to think and write through my grief process and post pictures of my cleavage. I think you’re gonna like it ‘cus sometimes I think I say…

Fatshion February Day 8: Nostalgia Edition Today I went out for...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:03:53 -0800

Fatshion February Day 8: Nostalgia Edition

Today I went out for $4.00 breakfast with my childhood best friend and we reminisced about our trashy working class rental complex and all it’s funny characters: the mean girls, the boys who smelled like tuna, the bikers and moms with frosted pink lipstick and rod stewart hair, and the old men who we weren’t supposed to take candy from but always did anyway.

The green cable-knit is from Old Navy and everything else is thrifted except for the boots which I’ve had for like 6 years and can’t remember where I got them.