Feast your eyes on the beauty of our growing @ctoan.co collection!! 🤎🖤💗❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎 Moving back into our apartment after 3 months of a sort of homelessness has me more intentional about the peace we need from these inside spaces when everything around us is d€@ th and d€$tru¢t!0n tied to wh!te supremacist colonization and capitalism. I’ve had a vision of a clear tiered shelf to show off these works of stunning fat art from one of my favorite Queer-owned Black-owned businesses, (who incidentally could use your help BUY! BUY! DONATE! DONATE! as they build out their new studio space to continue sending this life-giving art out into the world.) I finally found the shelf I wanted to display all of these hot bodies together in our bathroom, so I got to work redecorating this little altar of love the way I envisioned. 🛁🧼🫧🚿🧖🏻‍♀️ I spent at least a decade of my life with the highest hatred(s) of my body happening in the privacy of the bathroom. …Private enough to be allowed moments to escape the violence outside the door- so I could just inflict harms in thoughts and deeds on myself instead! 💔❤️‍🩹💔❤️‍🩹💔❤️‍🩹 But my cycle-breaking (lonely) journey includes breaking the cycle of body hate and fat hate and slow death via diet culture, and @ctoan.co candles are a huge part of that ongoing work. As a family of two (small)fat people, the joy and repair each time we receive our newest candle and ooh and ahh over the gorgeous curves and delightful dimples and cute rolls is healing and rewires our brains to love ourselves and others more and more. 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴 And, *BONUS*!! When I took these pictures I realized two other beloved Black-owned businesses joined the display: my FAVORITE @kbyab 🐝 for all things herbal medicine and the stunning and creative @soapdistillery 🧼🥃 (the rainbow 🏳️‍🌈 bar gifted to me by a student this summer). In my mind it’s always a season of gifting because it’s one of my favorite ways to show love- so check out these makers for ways to bring care to yourselves or others asap.