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Like words in our hands and mouths, women and non binary people can, and do, take the tools of our oppression and subvert them to liberate us.
Makeup is a femme signifier. It is often used against women to make them feel as they are forever reaching toward the respectable feminine ideal. Wear concealer and foundation to work or you’ll look like a 'slob', wear red lipstick and you’ll look like a 'slag'. Fuck that.
