Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It’s proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
BETH DITTOPortland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It’s proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
BETH DITTOI have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
BETH DITTOI have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.
BETH DITTOI love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.
BETH DITTOInstagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
BETH DITTOI hate to do what I’m told, that’s why I’m not good at 9-to-5s.
BETH DITTOI grew up with the motto of “they can’t kill you and eat you,” and I still think that’s right. You sure as hell can’t! When it comes to speaking about my body makes other people uncomfortable but it doesn’t make me uncomfortable.
BETH DITTOI think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn’t even need to be a gay label.
BETH DITTOFor my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She’s a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the 80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
BETH DITTOAs a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
BETH DITTOA few years back, when my style was “punk grandma”, I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more “1980s substitute teacher gone wild.”
BETH DITTOI said to my teacher, ‘I can’t be a singer because I’m not pretty enough, and I’m fat.’ And she looked at me and said, ‘Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.’ That changed my life forever!
BETH DITTOI have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You’re constantly learning how to be confident, aren’t you?
BETH DITTOI’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
BETH DITTOTrue love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
BETH DITTOWhen I was a kid Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.
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