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A Former Janitor Collects and Photographs the Items Seized from Immigrants and Thrown Away By U.S. Customs and Border Patrol - Feature Shoot

It started with toothbrushes. Arizona-based photographer Thomas Kiefer had been working part-time as a janitor at the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Ajo, some 40 miles from the Mexican border, for several years when he acted on his impulse to salvage— and to catalog—some of the hundreds of personal items thrown away in the facility. As hopeful American immigrants, many of them illegal, were apprehended and brought to the station, personal objects deemed “non-essential” were seized and disposed of during processing. With El Sueno Americano, or The American Dream, Kiefer tells the story of those who risked their freedom and their lives to cross the border through the many possessions they had to leave behind.

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I can’t count how many of my followers come to me with hatred directed at their boobs, or how many of my own pals and fam members have commented on my breasts in a negative manner; pointing out my tits were low. not just low, but LOW. not saggy, but SAGGY.
these are just descriptors but they’re meant to be insults, meant as backhanded compliments and endless “but….”’s. they’re used by smaller chested girls who go “AT LEAST I don’t have to WORRY about sagging”– as if it’s inherently a flaw? as if something as natural and unavoidable as aging and living is an exception to our beauty?
even if it was? boobs aren’t there to look good, and good doesn’t have constitute as perky and perfectly round n smooth. we got marks and scars, we can be uneven and spaced apart. we can have em hanging real low and going in diff directions! this is what it means to be human. we’re funky. your chest isn’t going to be any different simply because you think and have been taught it “should” look a certain way.

the idea that aging equals ugly is what we’re taught to become the ideal consumer. expensive bras, strategic tops, and expensive creams– we are bred to try and prevent something we really have no power to.
newsflash: we’re humans with elastic skin and parts of our bodies have balls of fat and muscle hanging off. and since we happen to live on earth, us and our pockets of shit are kinda subject to it’s gravitational pull

did you know tits hang and nipples go outwards in order for your potential spawn to better suckle ya titti milk out? did you know boobs are still fun to squeeze even if you have to bunch up the fat real quick first? did you know your chest is just a chest? that your softness, your warmth, the way it feels in a hand or mouth– that’s where the beauty comes from. not whether or not you have cleavage or small nipples or perky balls of fat. not the image being sold to you, not the comments tossed at you. your body is strong and alive, the rest is just trivial details x