Molly, you come out and play you smile day And this is Molly May
a bad papod another nice stuff with me, Molly make me yeah hat Molly
May. And today it feels really fucking good to be excited. Um.
I haven't been excited, like genuinely excited about shit and what seems like,
um way too long. But I'm super excited to have our first little Pandy
Quarantine interview time via the Internet. Thank you Internet. My dear friend Molly
and Nicholson is with us today. UM, and I would like you to
follow along in your instant gram hymnal at Amalia Nicholson. We are talking fashion,
wardrobe, mental health, fucking plus size joy and taking it to the
internet. Um. She's a producer, she's a model, she's a creator,
she's a wine enthusiast. She's a book reviewer with a tiny mic.
She is the brain behind the hashtag you love during our pandemic of hashtag oot
distancing live from Los Angeles, Amalia Nicholson, Hi, I guess this isn't
live, is it? I mean, it's it's live to us because we're
alive and we're in this moment. You are Hill show. Oh my go
God, it's so lovely to hear your voice. I have missed you a
lot, I know with that voice. Yeah, And I get to hear
your voice because I listen to your podcast, which selfishly is the main reason
I need it to continue forever so that I can just hear you. Thank
you, thank you, and thank you for being on. Before we jump
in today with the you know the what I can't take off this week and
what our song of the week is, I wanted to acknowledge Amalia is a
dear friend of mine and we have witnessed great trauma in our city of Minneapolis
since the murder of George Floyd, and I want to take a moment and
Amalia, honor your work on the front lines of the Internet in sharing your
information and resources, and also acknowledge the state of the of the world that
we are in. Um. I know that you are from South Minneapolis and
have lived here your whole life, but recently made a move to la this
past year for work. And before we dive headfirst into our closet, I
wanted to check in on your heart and and see how you are. Yeah,
oh the heart, baby. You know, if we had had this
conversation, which I don't think we would have because how could we. If
we had had this conversation two three weeks ago, I think we would have
had a very different conversation. I grew up in Whittier, which is the
neighborhood you saw get looted then whatever, you know, like whatever that can
means. Really, if you see a kmart get with windows busted in,
when you've been harassed by police outside of that kmart before in your life,
you don't see you don't feel personally too bad about it. If I'm being
very honest about my experience. Yeah, but uh, you know, it
was a really bizarre, extremely weird, surreal time. I joked that,
like, you don't really expect the first year you've ever moved away from home
to be the year a global pandemic and like a race war starts and it's
not really a race war, but you know it's it's it's like not what
you expect at all, And so it was devastating, and I think I'm
not I guess I didn't realize I was this kind of person, but I'm
I guess it makes sense. I'm the kind of person who can't just sit
back I had to do whatever I could with whatever I had, and being
in Los Angeles meant that I was glued to my phone and doing whatever I
could to share whatever I had. I you know, that includes like I'm
fortunately, you know, I'm I still have a job, and so that
means donating money and asking you know, those to donate money, and sharing
resources in other ways and hopefully making a difference, even the tiniest bite.
I don't know. Hopefully I did, but if not, that's okay too.
I'm just really happy to see that everyone sort of sort of on the
other side of a really scary time and now I just want to make sure
that everyone is strong enough to keep the work going because we're seeing we're seeing
people dip out and that's not going to work. But yeah, yeah,
I want to thank you for sharing that, um and I know that it
is. It's so hard to be away from home in times of great trauma,
and what you have done in taking your resources and also sharing your experiences
as a black woman on Instagram has been eye opening. You know, when
you're sharing your interactions, I was like, I I didn't know, and
you know, it's a moment of well, I should have known because this
is our fucking world. But I also want to point people to your page
because you have so many amazing resources up about you know, black beauty brands
and books that you should read. And I've learned so much from you and
even you being across the country, you've been my my, my go to
of even you know, there's a food shelf and it's in my community,
but Molly has got it share um and the Internet in this way has been
an amazing connector in this time. So I just I wanted to thank you,
UM, and I honor you, and I love you. I love
you, and I think you know, I'm glad you're I'm glad it's helped
you, and I'm glad it's helped other people. And I hope that anyone
who's listening which choose us to check me out on the internet, you know.
You know, I think one thing that I've been thinking a lot about
is I've gotten you know, a lot of you followers over the past three
weeks. And they were they were people who would have never followed me when
I was talking about being plus size or what I was wearing or whatever.
And that's that's fine. I think It's an interesting thing to have people come
to me now that they're being told they need to diverse the side of feed
and amplify melanated voices and all of that. And I'm so happy to have
new people who are interested in what I have to say. But it's it's
also weird, right because it's like, all I'm doing is sharing what I
already have and what I've already been doing. The books I read are the
books they've already been. The books that I'm sharing on Instagram are just books
I've already owned. It's not because I'm trying to better anyone else. You
know. The films I'm going to recommend, or the stories about my life
and my experience of police with police brutality, our stories I've already had.
It's just I'm open to sharing them as people are open to listening to them.
But I think it's as people, especially white people, choose to follow
new accounts and diversify what they see, which I think is phenomenal and so
important. I think we also have to remember that, like the creators behind
those Instagram accounts are just people, and so my experience as a black woman
is one thousand percent different. From the experience of any other black woman and
same with that. You know, so follow a lot of black people,
you know, follow a lot of every kind of person because we're all different
and we all have different perspectives, and like, I'm just sharing what feels
authentic to me. Yeah, thank you so much for doing that, And
I hope it is my greatest hope that these followers stick around for the plus
sized fashion. I don't know if you can hear, but Rosie the dog
is at the door and she is very like, yes, follow Amalia.
She is whining scratching on the door. But they better fucking stick around because
your closet is one of my all time favorites. And that leads me to
what I can't take off this week? Do you want to go first?
You want me to go first? I the wind just opened my closet door.
Oh my god, Oh no, it's it's my boyfriend. I need
to go away. That was scary, scary. I'm in my closet,
speaking of my closet because it's quiet, and I thought the wind opened the
door, and I got scared, and then it just was a man.
It's a man I lived with, but he was not invited the boyfriend,
the dog. Why can't they just leave me alone? Can't away from me
circumstances. Uh, it feels so good to giggle with you. Yeah,
I can. I can share what I can't take off. Yeah. Um.
So at the beginning of Quarkar Quarkar, I everyone was like, oh
my god, you need sweatpants, and I was like, yeah, for
sure, And I bought some sweatpants. But I live in LA and like
it gets hot here very quickly. And I decided that nightgowns are gonna be
my sing now. And I started looking on what's they called the Vermont County
Country Store, Yeah, the Vermont Country Store, and they sell like eighty
dollars nightgowns, and I was like, no, I can't. But fun
fact H and M sells things that are supposed to be used as regular dresses.
But I would never wear them outside of my home. They are wonderful
nightgowns. Yeah. So now I just look like a little ghost lady who's
haunting the halls of my own home in these like very oversized Chloe grounds own.
Is it like a sorry, yeah one? You know, they're they're
so like spaghetti strapped hense dressed very flowy. Um. One of them is
like an off the shoulder number with spilowy sleeves and floral prints. And my
boyfriend thinks they look like a curtain, but I think I look like,
um, a widow who is trying to haunt her home. I love them.
They are the best thing about them is they're like from the straight sizeline.
They're like all like an extra large or an extra large, and they're
gigantic and I love it. It's fabulous. And I'm not like, I'm
not an in between me like, I'm very much a plus sized person.
I like I wear like a twenty two to twenty four, Like these are
highly recommended. Keep her eye at H and M Yeah, H and M.
It's it's wonderful. What that's like. Think I'm that a listen.
I will say this right now. I have said. This is I very
first see in any sort of fashion blogging back in like two thousand and ten.
If you don't go into straight sized stores and try stuff on, you're
doing yourself a disservice because it's just it's a free for all. Nothing makes
any sense. I have. I'm looking at like a reformation tank up By
the way, we're not talking about reformation anymore. But like whatever, I
have this tankop from them. It's a side large or I'm like, okay,
it works for me, Like you have to try les. Yeah,
I haven't gone in a store and tried anything on for a long fucking time
for the obvious reasons of you know, they're usually not plus friendly. The
last time I feel like, the last time I actually tried on something in
store was with you. You introduced me to Big Bud Press. I'm so
obsessed, Thank you so much. It's also another example of trying shit on
in the store because sizing is so fucked up, So like I am a
five X in their pants and I'm usually like twenty and if I go to
another store that will translate to a three X. Yeah, I can't even
wear their clothes, but you have you have all that really cute tight I
shit, Oh yeah, the strikey T shirts do hit. But yeah,
the like structured pants are like a hard path. But yeah, you know,
everything is made differently. It is what it is. Yeah, and
some there's some stuff of theirs that I've gotten, So the what I can't
take off this week is basically my summer wardrobe. They're like a Shartrouse pant
and they look like a they're like a canvas, I guess, and then
there's like a an elastic to the back U which sounds really fucking horrendous um
and really ugly, but they're great, um, And they're just like oversized,
and it's it's hard to find an oversized fit in plus size, which
is why I'm so shocked about this H and M straight size nightgown situation,
which I'm gonna do immediately after we're yeah, um. But sometimes in Big
Bud there's like a different canvas material that has more structure, and it's again
this goes back to like knowing your measurements and reading the fucking size charts on
on shit. But I've since shopped online with Big Bud and what I they're
size inclusive in terms that they carry everything from straight size up to like I
think five x X but yeah, five X to them. Um. But
I like how they have different models for different sizes, so I can shop
their entire online experience through five X only looking at five X models or looking
at size four. You know. Yeah, I think that's like a very
cool new trend with I haven't seen it with a lot of brands. I
feel like Good American does it, and a couple of others that are like
and even they like they'll show you it like close on a size two and
a size fourteen, which is like not enough, but it's I want smart
moved, I want like a big bellied model. Huh yeah, I love
so excited, you know, I fucking love them. Um And I got
another pair and like a like a rusty pumpkin um that I just feel like,
you know, they're one of those pants that I can cuff up and
where with a T shirt or I can like put on a mule and wear
it with a blazer. So it's a nice cross functional piece, these pants
with good I love, we need. I feel like all pieces need to
be cross functional. Yeah, maybe not all A lot um. I'm dying
to know what your song of the week is. I feel like you will
know what mine is. I actually don't think i'll know what yours is,
and I have to I have to remember what it's called. Hold on.
Oh no, okay, So here's the deal, guys. I am a
very complex woman and I'm not gonna find any more. Maybe well, I'm
a very complicated woman. I have a lot of diverse taste. I you
know, can listen to any like I've listened to every genre of music in
my entire life, and like blah blah blah whatever. Very educated. But
the song I can't stop listening to right now is it's called like the Yodel
Song and it's on the Trolls to movie soundtrack. Okay, first of all,
you are I have a niece and nephew, and so you'd think I
watched Trolls because of that, but that is not true. Yeah, the
first time I watched the Trolls movie was with a friend while drinking wine.
And I love that movie so much that my nephew, who's like six and
thinks, he's like whatever about it now, He's like if he sees me,
he's like, you want to go watch Trolls, Aunty, and like,
thanks for doing me a solid kid, Like he thinks I can't watch
it by myself. And so when the new Trolls movie came out, uh,
we facetimes with the kids and watch shit and it was great. Um,
but that song on the soundtrack is a banger. It's so good and
like Anderson Pack is all over the soundtrack. It's great. Wow, but
it's just like it's called like the yodel song, and it's just like yodeling
mixed with like like dub step chaos. It's like definitely for like children with
too much energy, who needs to just like jump around. But I all
like it a lot. I haven't. I haven't checked out trolls too yet,
but I know your love for trolls runs deep. Um, especially regarding
the trolls oreos with glitter. You know, the glitter was a scam.
I wondered. I wanted it to be better, but I you know,
I'm I'm happy with what I can get in the trolls universe. I love
it. Did you have trolls as a kid. I'm sure I had like
one or two, but they were I think they're kind of creepy. Yeah,
like the dolls with the belly button. I think it's weird. Yeah.
I never I like the modern one. I mean, I'm sure they're
making them again, because there's a fucking trolls movie. Um. I didn't
even realize. I am. Yeah, they're very different. They're very different
from the old school trolls. They will be incredibly different. Um, Yeah,
they were clothes. There's no jam in the belly. Okay, Uh,
yeah, they're evolved. You know, I only had a m I
never had an actual troll doll. But when I would go to the dentist.
Um, you know, I'm from a super small town, and so
when we would go to the dentist, would get a treat of McDonald's afterwards.
And the only troll that I had was a happy Meal troll and it's
basic, just like you know, a nude piece of plastic. Yeah,
I have UH. When things are really bad in Minneapolis, I have a
neighbor of who I also work with more friends. She brought me UM some
things helped me relax, which I won't name. But he also brought me
a happy Meal with two tools toys, so I also have. I also
told from McDonald what a great friend we loved her. Um. My song
of the week is a song that I hold very near and dear to my
heart when I think of you, UM and our sweet friend Emily, and
that is um the Earth, the air, and the fire of the water.
UM. And I can't believe I lucked it up on Spotify today.
UM the Proper band, I don't know if we call them. The band
is Labanna, Levana or Lebana. Yeah, it's Labana. It's just like
it's what you would expect to find um in a coffee shop in Stockholm,
Wisconsin during a festival at midnight. Um Like Okay. So I feel like
when I really started getting to know you was right when pen fifteen came out
on Hulu and yeah we you. Emily and I were planning a photo shoot
together and the end of our planning session just turned into us basically creating this
almost like sance. It was like a sance like atmosphere where we just sang
that song over and over, like with our palms. We are adult women,
by the way, it's just sitting on a living room floor with our
palms connected and eyes shut, going do you see the fire the watery yea.
I think you also have to remember we after we also left Emily's apartment
and went multiple places and just started singing it there, like in an art
gallery as you do, where other people were the art. We just sang
it. Yeah, really emotional. It's a great song. It's a great
song, and I think I need to listen to it more. Yeah,
then I need to yodel more. That's really great. Um, I want
to know. Yeah, those are chaotic choices. Well, what's really great
is there gonna go We have like a progressive Spotify playlist, So these two
are now gonna go back to back and I'm really excited about that mood journey
that is going to be very rough. Um, tell me what has brought
you joy this week? Oh? Um, joy? Let's see what's that?
Um shit? Oh god, you know what I took. I'm on
PTO right now, tell you. Yeah, Like I just decided that,
like I'm gonna do what my heart wants me to do, and like I
have a stack of books I'm supposed to read, and like, yeah,
I'll maybe I'll learn how to read through osmosis someday. But right now,
I'm just watching Married at First Sight in ninety Day Fiance a lot and it
feels feeling good. Yeah, um yeah, And maybe I'll take a shower
today Wolfee. Maybe not. Yeah, but it's just like no pressure situations
or what's what's going to bring me joy right now? I think? Yeah,
I love that. Yeah, I love that. Um. What brought
me joined this week was, uh, you saw this on the internet and
it was just really fucking awesome and everything that I love about the Internet,
and reminded me how the Internet can be such a source of giggles. Um.
So there was a uh like an online auction going on for a homemade
um acab rug. Um you don't know what it means all cops are bastards?
Um? Or does it right? That's this is where this is gonna
go. Um, you know, and it's just like, I'm a white
woman. I had to google what acab meant and I'm like, okay,
yeah, fuck yeah acab um. And the comments were really loved it basically
went um, you know, this woman said all cops are not bad in
a very you know, like all lives matter momentum. And then someone else
commented, don't worry, that's not what it stands for. And then the
conversation continued to be like, well what does it stand for then, because
you know that's what I've heard and and people need to be careful um.
And then everyone was just like, it means all cats are beautiful. And
the final bid on this homemade rug where the you know, the money was
going to a local nonprofit um was four hundred and seventy five bucks, and
the winning bid was just like, I fucking love cats, Like it was
so good. It was it was like a roast of positivity and I don't
I don't think it's so good. Not a roast, but it was like
so light. You know, we needed that little moment on the internet.
I think we did. And you know what it was like, it was
like how to deal with trolls in the funniest, the bad kind of trolls,
not a good time. The it was like how to deal with them
in the best way possible where it's just like it's like, it was so
funny, and the artist Crystal Quinn is just like unbelievably talented and I highly
recommend checking it out because it is death kiss funny. I hope it lives
on forever. Oh yeah, I want to now dive into your wardrobe.
I feel good and warmed up and giggly and fucking thank you. You are
such a true inspiration of mine and such a great example of celebrating our bodies
through our wardrobe. And I want to know kind of where your exploration and
passion for fashion inside your body began. M I mean, I don't,
I don't know, like I've never not been this way. I think it
kind of goes back to what I like. It's I don't know, because
it's just who I am, right Like, I apparently growing up with someone
who wanted to lay out my outfit for the next day. And then that
transformed into, oh, I need my Delia's and girlfriend's la catalog so I
can figure out what I want to wear, and then that turned into making
sure my sims look truly good all the time. And then, you know,
as soon as I was able to, you know, and then and
my mom was always very thrifty and we would go to like Discount Stars and
figure out what to wear. And um, but you know, as your
body changes and you get older and your you know, your plus size,
you don't have the options as much. And you know, I think I
just, um, I didn't care. I don't know. I just would
wear like band T shirts and I had hot pink hair and like would like
remember there's these really great pictures of me in like middle school with like jeans
and I sewed like pink fabric into the sides, so my jeans were really
big because I couldn't before I couldn't fit into Jinko jeans. It would just
be skinny jeans on me. So you know, I figured out my own
way to do it. It's a look. Um. So it's just always
been this way, I think. And um, as like the years have
gone on, it's gotten easier to access the types of clothes I authentically want
to wear and like to wear because they're being made. Um. But you
know, it's again, it's like the idea of celebrating my body. It's
like or like a plus I've body. It's like I don't know, I
just know I dressed better than a lot of people who aren't fat. So
like you should look at it. I guess fucking this is over. That
is it you did? It's looking like I'm very on top, dude.
Yes, I've been, Like I my friend Liz and I started a fashion
tumbler back in twenty ten when that wasn't a thing, right, Like I'm
friends with like Gabby and Nicolette and like Kelly and like all these girls who
have been doing this for so so long. Um and and they're amazing and
they're like total inspirations to me, and I don't want to do what they
do because so they're killing it like Gabby is killing it. Gabby Fresh.
For those who don't know Gabby on a first name basis, she is.
She's like the beacon celebrity of plus sized fashion. All hail Gabby. Yeah,
yeah, she's the reason fat girls wear bikinis. She literally was like,
I'll wear a bikini right now, and then it turned into like let's
let's let's let Gabby make her own line and like that is the reason there
are fat bikinis now. Um, so you know I did that a little
while and so it's always been a part of me. It's not so much
like it wasn't so much a goal of like what my internet presence was leading
up to now necessarily um that is until you know, not for the distancing,
I guess, but um yeah, I don't know. I just like
pictures of what I wear. How it did? Um, how did oot
distancing start? And what does it mean? Yeah? How did this our
econo? Man? I think this kind of goes back like I am learning
more about myself in that when faced with crippling anxiety and fear, I don't
let myself stop too much. I sort of am like if I don't pay
attention to how scared. I am. I won't be scared anymore. So
I stay really really dizzy, and so like with all the stuff in Minneapolis
and like wanting to spring into action once the pandemic kind of became a very
real reality, especially if someone in Los Angeles. I was really freaked out.
I have really severe asthma, and so like leaving the house is not
an option, like really it's it's like we're in lockdown, and I don't
really know when I'm not going to be in lockdown because people are crazy and
think they deserve to go to brunch right now. So I can't. I
don't understand. I don't get it. I don't get it at all.
And so I was through like laying around and I was like, what is
gonna like you inspire me? And like what can I do? And like
how can I like put something positive out into the world, because I was
it was doom scrolling every day, like it was just like everyone's just posting
over and over, like all these conspiracy theories are like here's why you need
to wear a mask, Here's why you shouldn't wear a mask, Here's here's
how many people are gonna die by February third or whatever, and I'm like
its February fifteenth. Were talking about like so it's just like its chaos,
and so I was like, Okay, how do we find a way to
encourage people to stay home? And like how do we talk about distance social
distancing and not quarantine but like kind of. And I was like texting with
our friend Alex and I was like, what if we did like daily outfit
challenges and she was like, I just want to wear my ath leisure and
I was like respect. And the next way I woke up and I was
like, I'm just gonna try it, and I texted like you and Emily
and I was like, Okay, we're gonna try to sing if you want.
And it's gonna be called outfit of the distancing and that comes from UM.
In the fashion blogger instagrammy community, there's a term hashtag oot D,
which stands for Outfit of the Day. And so I was like, oh,
that's easy. Outside of the distancing, you just add instancing. I
don't know how to think distancing without a D. So perfect, you just
add it to the d's special together, Um, you just together. What
OOT distancing UM did for me was so I have always been a huge advocate
of no one has a good day in sweatpants. Um. But when it
was day in and day out of and we were like, we were releasing
a new a brand new net news section of our website at this time,
and so I was just like getting up straight to my desk and it was
very much I'm working in my pajamas, which are just underwear sometimes the sweatpants.
UM. And then you know, feeling off my game and I'm like,
what the fuck am I off my game? It's oh, it's because
I'm not wearing clothes. Um. And when you sent this this text,
this email of this challenge, UM, you had themes to it initially,
right like what are what are you going to wear when you flatten the curve?
That's what it was. Yeah, that was the first one. Yeah.
Yeah, because it was like I didn't want it to just be totally
random. I didn't want because you know what, I didn't want to see
people wearing footpants. I was like, I want to give someone a challenge
because I don't want to see that. Yeah, And it gave us a
reason to get dressed. And in this I learned something about myself. It
was like I have always thought, you know, oh, I'm getting dressed
for myself and it's a form of self expression. And then I'm just like,
or do I get fucking dressed for the internet? What have I?
And I had like this moment of who am I when I'm not dressed up?
Do you know what I mean? Yeah, it was like this,
and then the second that I put on actual denim or put thought into what
I was wearing, it was like an immediate readiness. Yeah, yeah,
it's I It's been interesting. Like when I first started it, I was
so into it. I was so ready and I was like, Okay,
I'm gonna took another outfit photo. It's gonna be great. And I felt
all of that, and then I went through a really serious mental health crisis,
and I don't remember exactly when. It's been a few weeks since I've
sort of come out the other side of it, but like, to be
really frank and honest, like I had to have like an emergency psychiatric call
where I was like, I need antidepressions as soon as humanly possible because I
can't keep doing this. Like this has been so hard. I hate it.
I hate being stuck at home. I hate being afraid of everyone.
I hate being afraid of getting sick. I just I reached this point where
I was like, I don't like this. I don't like this life of
quarantine and I'm not happy, and like my mental health is really suffering,
and the correlation of like I need to get back on my antidepressants, which
I had meaned myself off of like in January often timing, and then the
like my ability to get dressed, like is directly correlated, right, And
so it is really obvious that like doing something as simple as putting on a
piece of clothing that brings you joy, doing something as simple as putting on
an outfit that brings you joy is a sign of where you're at mentally,
but also like what your desires are for yourself, I think, yeah,
wow, Yeah, there are a lot of levels to what you just said,
and I'm like, on every fucking one of them. A first off,
I commend you on the courage to reach back out and to you know,
know the signs for yourself to getting that help. I have had to
reach out again um to my therapist during this time, and it's I'm glad
that I have that option. I realized I'm very privileged to have that option.
And in the other vein of that, there were so many years where
I neglected those signs in myself, and like you said, the days where
I can't get out of bed and I can't get dressed, I would just
be like, this is an off day. But you know, like sometimes
it would last three days, and that's that's depression. It's a part of
how depression manifests itself for me. Anyway, well done on that. And
I'm a big fan of jobs. I'm just I'd like to be very honest.
I am Wow. I just love my antidepressant. Yeah yeah, yeah,
it for me, it helps me. Um, it's like a little
bit of a safety net. Um. So my my antidepressants also helped me
curb my panic attacks. M yeah. So it's just like a little bit
of I'm in control because I took that pill today, um, and it's
there to help me. Um. I am not broken. Um, but
I'm gonna take this thing that helps me feel better. And you know,
it's all about if it helps me feel better, and if I can fucking
get dressed in a cool fucking outfit, then it's you know worth it to
me, right, totally I want to know your thoughts on because OOT distancing,
you know when you started it, and this is one of the cool
things things about the Internet is it took off without you sending challenges every day
or like every week, and now people are still using that hashtag of OOT
distancing, and it's you know, spread beyond just your friend group, and
it's a way that people are celebrating their wardrobe and still getting up and still
showing up to their work from home or even just showing up to read a
book on their couch, but kind of getting back into that into the the
day to day and the what's the word I'm looking for, the routine of
the day. It's it's taken off a bit. What's been the coolest thing
that you've seen unfold with it? So I have two thoughts on that I'll
start with. I'll start with the coolest and I don't actually know, but
I think the coolest thing has been seeing people in other parts of the world
using it. I also think it's been really cool. I think something that
happens a lot in plus size fashion, in plus size fashion blogging is that
it's so sequestered from like quote unquote mainstream and so for a hashtag to transcend
that, it's really cool to me. I see people plus and straight size
using it, which I love. I think that's like, that's awesome.
I think everyone who has a body on the Internet deserves to show what they
want to show and be celebrated for it. I don't care what it is
or what you put in it, like what you wear, like if you
want to use that hashtag, it's yours. And I love that. And
I also think it's cool about a hashtag. I'm like, you know,
it's interesting. Some people kind of came to me about this, but I
think it's cool about a hashtag. Is like I don't need the credit,
Like it's a hashtag. Those aren't created to have ownership. You're not supposed
to say hashtag outfite of the distancing by a Molly and Nicholson. No,
that's that's not what that's for. Like this is just like organic and and
I don't need that credit. And I think that that's really cool that like
it has surpassed anything I've done because like whatever, like no one's monetizing that.
Like maybe if it was like somehow, you know, a brand was
using it and making billions of dollars. Opposite, i'd be salty and maybe
we'd have a different conversation. But like, this is about community building and
about encouraging something good, So I think that's awesome. The weirdest thing know
about it has been like creating something two months ago, three months ago now
that I don't want to see anymore. Uh. It's not that I don't
like, I don't. I don't want to see an alpha photo right now.
I don't want to see UM. Right now is not the time for
for selfies to me in a lot of ways, UM, And I don't.
I don't mean that in like a steadfast way, Like if someone wants
to post an alpha photo right now, they're one thousand percent allowed to do
that. And I I, you know, I enjoy seeing people UM.
But you know, because I subscribe to the just like overall hashtag. I
see people in my you know, timeline, and I see the people that
are just they're they're acting as if their lives has gone on completely unchanged since
the beginning of quarantine and since you know, George Floyd's murder and UM,
and that's hard. But I think the difficult part of creating something that's UM
so like equal to anybody who wants to use it, is that you also
have to accept that, like people who aren't necessarily aligned with your political beliefs
are allowed to use that thing too and not. Okay, I mean,
I'm happy to see that it's still being used and people are still finding ways
to feel good. Um, I just hope it also means that they're distancing
at the bare minium and if not trying to dismantle the systems, that a
process would also be nice. Well, ma'am, I am here for you.
Well done. Um, I didn't even think about the way that it
would come into your feed. Does it come into your feed more regularly because
you started it? Is there like a weird I don't think Instagram cares who
started it, which is fine, Yeah, I don't. I don't see
it's too often. I follow enough people that I don't. I don't see
that hashtag all that often. So I actually haven't checked on it in a
while because it just hasn't felt like the right time. Um, it feels
like it's the right time for outfit of the revolution. Maybe you know,
I am she's doing it. You are great as starting revolutions, Amalia.
Yeah, I didn't you know what the best part is. The outfit of
the revolution is a nightgown form H and nab Wow Wow from from homemade Jinko
flares to H and M Nightgowns of the Revolution exactly. I am proud of
you, and I love you, and I think that you are smart and
hilarious and I want the whole world to follow you because your your brilliance and
your brain is I'm so lucky to get to know what I'm person but also,
like your Instagram is pretty fucking good too, So God, I just
feel like I'm an idiot on the internet. So that's thanks to here.
But like, really only follow if you're prepared for me to talk about controls
who've like honestly, that's where we're headed once this we've all done. Like
also and maybe King of the Hill. Fucking love you so much, Thank
you so much for coming on your dear dear love and the world is so
lucky to have you. I'm lucky to have you in my world, so
thank you for inviting me to be here. And if you got this far
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