White Trash Bougie

Movin’ on up

Kristin DeMarr
6 min readJun 17, 2022

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Photo by Daniel Koponyas on Unsplash

I have a great serious essay I’m plugging away at, but figured I would throw out something a bit more lighthearted today.

If you know me, you know that I’ve been going braless since Covid. I’m at a stage in my life and in my mentality, that IDGAF what anyone thinks about my appearance. OK, so I guess there are intercepts between the other essay I’m working on and this one, but anyway… Who tf decided that women had to wear bras? They are SO uncomfortable! I have an entire rant/ramble about this and the white male. If you’ve been lucky enough to experience me lately, you have probably received this ramble.

The other day, while running errands, I encountered a twin. She was pretty much the same size and body shape as me. She was also walking around with a T-shirt and her ladies in the wild. I was like “yay sister!” on one hand. On the other, I also assumed she was very low class, maybe had mental issues, and maybe even homeless… She also happened to be missing a tooth or two. I saw her twice because she was walking her way somewhere in the neighborhoods I was traveling in. As I was thinking this, I was thinking….um…everyone probably thinks all those same thoughts about you when they see you. And they wouldn’t really be mistaken on any of it. I’m not homeless, but likely look the part while out in public. I dress for comfort, not for…

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Kristin DeMarr

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