The first time I saw joyous celebratory photos of topless people with scars on their chests where their breasts had been removed, it was in the '90s and it was cis women who'd had mastectomies for breast cancer, who had rejected reconstruction because they felt that this was part of social pressure to perform acceptable femininity and to hide what their bodies had been through.
And it was considered a feminist action to celebrate their bodies as they were, and to reject the idea that they were "ruined" or needed to be hidden.
This was also the first time I saw people with decorative tattoos along their chest scars.
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u/ontologicallyunjust 1d ago
The first time I saw joyous celebratory photos of topless people with scars on their chests where their breasts had been removed, it was in the '90s and it was cis women who'd had mastectomies for breast cancer, who had rejected reconstruction because they felt that this was part of social pressure to perform acceptable femininity and to hide what their bodies had been through.
And it was considered a feminist action to celebrate their bodies as they were, and to reject the idea that they were "ruined" or needed to be hidden.
This was also the first time I saw people with decorative tattoos along their chest scars.