from Imogen Binnie’s Nevada:

Because shaving and putting on a bunch of foundation every day are emotionally exhausting reminders of being trans, she gets a step removed from them by monologuing like she’s explaining them to someone. Secret trick one is to boil water in a kettle on the stove while you get dressed and brush your teeth, then stop up the sink and make yourself a little boiling lake. If the water is so hot that it truly hurts your fingers when you splash it on your face and you kind of worry that you’re doing permanent damage to your skin, you are doing it right. Super hot water makes the shave closer, who knows why. Maybe like how you have to warm up a tortilla before you can make anything out of it? Anyway then you smear shaving cream all over your face. Use the cheapest stuff you can find: sometimes Barbasol has a kind that says Real Man on the side, that’s the best one. Shave your face with one of those triple-blade razors. They’re expensive, but you can re-use them for like a couple weeks. You’ll know it’s time to replace the blade when your face is a gory mess every day after you shave and you keep thinking, you want blood moon magic but you only bleed a couple days a month? I bleed every day.

From my face.

Anything more than three blades is for rich people.

Actually many transfems get other symptoms too! Like bloatedness, period shits, and mood swings

Also, if you want a hug: 🫂

Shout out to the lovely women in my life who suffer from periods,

And my lovely BF who gets periods too XD fml

It feels more like every week for me. But then again, I was feeling blue a fews days like this too before transitioning.

Honestly, having a period tracker on my phone has helped a lot with tracking this as I don’t really have many physical symptoms yet, but my therapist suggested tracking as she noticed that “blue” pattern. Sure enough, every ~28-30 days I start feeling like shit, and having that knowledge in advance has helped a lot.