{"id":20567,"date":"2015-03-11T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=20567"},"modified":"2015-03-11T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:19:25","slug":"radical-affirmation-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=20567","title":{"rendered":"Radical Affirmation for Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who know me and know that I own my baldness just as much as I owned my badass big red hair, this will come as a surprise. Not what I did, but that I had to even think about it as a radical move. Last night, before I went to bed, I changed my profile photograph on Linked In to one of me bald.<\/p>\n

It has been three years this month since I became hair free (read: my hair fell out because of Hashimoto’s and a series of stress events that tore down my immune system), and I have left my Linked In photo alone as a vestige to my professional persona. I did this not for me, but for others. I wear a wig in Boston, not for me, but for others. I left my hair-photo up not for me, but for those sources who I speak with who don’t know anything about the changes in me. <\/p>\n

Last night, I decided that I did not want to do for others anymore. I want to do me. And so I changed my photograph and this was a radical affirmation of acceptance for me. It is one step in many on my path to freedom because as Janis said, freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. <\/p>\n

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For those of you who will look at the old photograph and think I was beautiful then<\/em>, I would say look closer and you will see the real me now<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those who know me and know that I own my baldness just as much as I owned my badass big red hair, this will come as a surprise. Not what I did, but that I had to even think about it as a radical move. Last night, before I went to bed, I changed my profile photograph on Linked In to one of me bald. It has been three years this month since I… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-5lJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20570,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20567\/revisions\/20570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}