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meal ideas!

low energy ("do not ask me to do any prep work at all, so help me god")

mozzerella cheese wrapped in pepperoni ("pizza tacos"!)
hummus and pretzels or naan (putting the naan in the microwave for like 10 seconds...heavenly)
canned chili (with shredded cheese and sour cream if you have it! boom done!)
instant miso soup (warm and lovely!)
cheese and cured meat, olives, canned fish, crackers, dried fruit, or whatever easy "charcuterie" type items you like
alternate bites of apple and spoonfulls of peanut butter (mixing honey or chocolate chips to the peanut butter is my favorite)
a "deconstructed sandwich": bites of lunch meat, pickles, cheese, cherry tomato, etc (I love roast beef and white cheddar for this)
yogurt and granola or fruit

medium energy ("I'll boil water but don't ask me to chop shit")

boiled eggs and fresh veggies (put a little salt on top of the eggs for pizzaz!)
buttered noodles (take it up to level 10 and add roasted garlic; takes 30 mins in an oven, only one swoop of the knife required)
baked potato with toppings (I like cheese, bacon, broccoli, green onion, and sour cream)
quesadilla (add some canned beans, cilantro, or avocado!)
pot roast (requires a lot of time but not a lot of actual work. I love it with peas!)
cuban sandwich (bread, swiss, pickle, mustard, ham... my favorite thing to panini-ify by far)
pan-fried tofu with scallion sauce (this sauce goes well with everything and tofu is no exception)
pancakes or waffles! (I love mine with jam)
ham, pickle, and cream cheese roll-ups
fried eggs (with toast and lots of butter...so comforting)
fruit smoothie (bananas, frozen strawberries, yogurt...or whatever!)
I hate salad but could write essays on this copycat olive garden salad (throw it in a bowl! chopping required if you use onion)
spaghetti (controversial maybe but angel hair > spaghetti noodles)
pasta salad (olives broccoli fresh mozerella... those little mini pepperonis... yeah)

high energy ("I don't mind chopping some things up!")

stuffed shells with spinach
chicken and roasted garlic (oh my god.....one of my all time favorites)
beef tacos (I like mine with cilantro and onion, and when I'm feeling especially high energy I love a tomatillo salsa)
chicken alfredo
tom kha gai (a thai soup and my absolute favorite! you just need access to galangal)
lasagna! (freezes well and then boom! low energy meal for later)
pad thai! (not as hard as you'd think, as long as you have access to tamarind paste!)
potstickers! (this is a lovely group activity if you want to cook with housemates!)
rice and beans
bang bang shrimp (ogughfhgfuh I love it. you can also do bang bang tofu!)
minestrone soup (so many nice veggies!)
fried rice (put whatever you have on hand in there! broccoli, peas, carrot, and beef is my favorite combo)
broccoli cheddar soup
spring rolls and peanut sauce
skewers (such as beef, onion, zucchini, bell pepper... you don't need a grill, oven works!)
roasted turkey with garlic parmesean asparagus
pork chop with mashed potatoes

other tips:

whenever you think of a meal you'd like to make, take 3 seconds to google search it, take a screenshot of the image results, and put it in a "food ideas" folder. instant visual menu!
if you're on instagram, there are a bajillion different recipe accounts that post videos! a few of my favorites: jipsoon_kitchen, eatwitzo, cordandthekitchen, chungeats, tiffy.cooks, two_plaid_aprons

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please practice speaking to yourself in a gentle mental voice. many of us, especially those raised by overly critical caregivers, have developed the habit of speaking unkindly to ourselves in our own heads. this is yet another instance of learned behavior that has to be purposely unlearnt. a good way to start is to monitor your thoughts and the judgments you pass on yourself, and practice rewording them in more positive, supportive language. practice speaking to yourself as if to a child who needs love and kindness. because you do. you do need those things.

in a world as jumbled and harsh as this, you deserve at least to cradle yourself in your own gentle hands. you deserve people who treat you gently. and one of those people needs to be you.

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TERFs and anti-trans activists love to pretend that they are concerned about people who experience dysphoria, that this is a mental illness and hormone treatment will only harm them, they should seek therapy and not HRT…. I’m an afab person dealing with severe dysphoria because my body produces too much testosterone. I’m nb, I might (like my afab nb partners) like to let my voice deepen, grow a beard, etc etc… but it took long enough for me to accept my body as it was. And then it started changing. And that was upsetting regardless of my gender identity, because I got used to my body and it started doing things I didn’t understand and couldn’t anticipate…

There’s absolutely no support there from the people who are So Concerned about gender dysphoria as a mental illness. No concern about my dysphoria/uncertainty about beard growth, thinning hair, etc etc… and meanwhile these same people who want to present themselves as the defenders of womanhood (afab, of course) vilify these exact things (beard growth, thinning hair) as proof that trans women aren’t real women.

Certainly doesn’t help my own personal struggle, actually makes me feel much worse about myself as a woman, drove me further away from identifying as a cis woman. Terfs will viciously attack a woman with a beard because they know they’re a man… when this person has always been a woman, is afab, grew up as a girl, would never be looked at as anything but female if she shaved her beard, but because she chose to stop so many terfs insist she must be a man in disguise. This gives the lie to terfs insisting they just want women to exist as they are, without having to modify themselves… they just want to enforce a strict system of conformity, they just want the rules of conformity re: female bodies to relax a TINY bit. There’s nothing revolutionary or radical about that.

Anyway, I identified as cis until very recently. It was watching the way terfs treated cis women with abnormal hormones that drove me away from that identification, because if my natural body is abhorrent and aberrational to the people most interested in policing my gender according to chromosomes, if even my birth sex won’t convince them to properly gender me… fuck it. Fuck it.

I don’t have a gender. Or my gender is so obscure that only I conform to it. Regardless, no TERF is your friend or will ever be. They align themselves with conservatives and Christians because at their core they despise “degenerates” and nonconformity and you don’t even have to make a choice to earn their ire - just be a little too different, biologically, and you are a target. They claim to stand for all women but come for bearded women as if they’re men in disguise, so don’t doubt for a minute they’ll turn on anyone else who doesn’t fall in line the moment it becomes convenient. TERFs are not your friends or your allies - they are the enemy in a feminist mask.