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Decolonizing Fitness is online resource helping folks to divest from toxic fitness culture.

02/24/2025

Links to connect with me in my tree. You can read “Navigating Perimenopause and Strength Training for Trans and Gender Expansive People” on Patreon, available to all members regardless of tier.
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I’m continually deepening my understanding of gender-affirming care as a non-binary person experiencing menopause. Sharing resources that have supported me through this transition feels essential.
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If you’re exploring this journey too, check out my guide: “Navigating Perimenopause and Strength Training for Trans and Gender Expansive People.” It’s designed to offer support, validation, and practical movement insights.
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I’m also working on a new guide focused on pelvic floor health for trans and gender-expansive people navigating menopause. This will include a resource list of affirming pelvic health practitioners.
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Do you know a gender-affirming pelvic health practitioner? I’d love to connect! Drop their info in the comments or send me a message so I can amplify their work in this guide.
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A huge thank-you to the practitioners and community members already sharing knowledge and resources. Your support makes all the difference. Let’s continue building together.

02/16/2025

I determine my gender.
My name is Ilya and my pronouns are he/they

The system is enforced at the expense of the humanity and the livelihood of those who are considered Other.
It is not valid, intrisnic, truth or biological.

Idgaf what an executive order states.

02/13/2025

Links to connect with me in my tree.
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In uncertain times, creators must reflect on how their digital spaces embody resistance. Every post, comment, and share can disrupt oppressive narratives, or reinforce them. How will you use your platform?
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Sharing insights is powerful, but power requires care. Pause and reflect: are your words reducing harm or adding to the turmoil? Are they a balm for collective care or fuel for collective despair?
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A reminder to stay connected with me beyond this platform:
Patreon.com/DecolonizingFitness
Sign up for my free Newsletter
Bookshop.org/DFU
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Resisting systems of violence starts with recognizing the struggles that bond us. If nothing else, commit to not being a source of additional harm. Let’s share in ways that uplift, not fracture.
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Fascism thrives on hopelessness, banking on our belief that its power is inevitable. Imagination is an act of defiance. Through principled action, solidarity, and liberatory dreaming, we can dismantle it, together.

02/05/2025

This was just on my heart:
Don’t forget you can connect with me here as well:
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Patreon.com/DecolonizingFitness

Sign up for my free resources newsletter (check my tree)

Bookshop.org/DFU
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Gone be on this platform more sparingly

01/28/2025

Check out the bookshop by visiting the tree in my info section*
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If you benefit from what I share and you’d like to help sustain the work beyond this platform. I invite you to sign up for my newsletter or join my Patreon, both are free.
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Slide 1: “A popular question I get is for book recommendations. Did you know you can browse my curated collection online through my Bookshop?

Slide 2: Here are some of the categories you’ll find in the Decolonizing Fitness University (DFU) Bookshop: Coming Back to Movement, Body Politics & Body Liberation, Examining Mainstream Fitness & Wellness Industries, Decolonial Approaches, Fat Studies & Embodiment

Slide 3: Some more categories in the DFU Bookshop cause it’s all connected: Neurovariation, Chronic Illness and Disability Justice, Political Education, History & Resistance, Black, Indigenous, People of the Global Majority (BIPGM) Healing Wisdom, Food, Freedom and Cookbooks, Self Compassion, Collective Care and Organizing

Slide 4: DFU is an educational hub that offers supportive approaches to movement, grounded in body sovereignty and healing justice, while also dismantling the mainstream norms of the fitness industry.

Slide Slide 5: The goal is to make fitness education more accessible by addressing the gaps in traditional certification programs, which often depend on anti-fat, ableist, and gendered language. See the caption for more details.”

01/23/2025

I’ll be sharing more about my training journey on Patreon and through my Newsletter so make sure you check my tree to connect with me.
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Sorry I don’t have capacity for image descriptions if someone could drop those in the comments I’d greatly appreciate it.
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Collective care is foundational to our liberation. We gone keep doing what we been doing. We got this y’all 🫶🏽

12/30/2024

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Moving into 2025 Let’s set goals that focus less on what we can take from the world and more on how we can support and give back to it.
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Let’s commit to generative introspection, asking how our actions can contribute to collective well-being rather than just personal advancement.
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Let’s prioritize political education. Understanding the systems that exploit us all is a powerful way to foster collective solidarity.
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Let’s shift the focus from hyper-individualistic material growth and hoarding of resources to building sustainable communities and mutual support networks.
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Let’s make 2025 about resource mobilization, mutual aid, and wealth redistribution. We’re in this together.

12/24/2024

If you enjoy a good podcast, I’ve got a list of awesome recommendations ready for you. Check the caption for details.
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You can check out the Decolonizing Fitness Podcast Recommendations spreadsheet available to all members of my Patreon no matter the tier level. **Connect with me on the tree in my info section**
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If you have a podcast you’d like for me to add or have any suggestions share in the comments and I’ll check it out.

12/20/2024

Two years married, six years together, and a lifetime to go with my beautiful wife, , Monique. 💍✨
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Our love is cosmic, written in the stars and grounded in the care we build every day. Monique, you’re my best friend, my safe haven, and the reason I feel more alive than ever. Loving you has saved me in ways I never thought possible, giving me safety, access, joy and pleasure that I don’t ever want to take for granted.
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Black q***r love like ours is radical, powerful, and deeply affirming…but let’s be clear: romantic love isn’t the pinnacle of connection. All forms of intimacy (friendships, kinship bonds, and chosen family) are just as vital and transformative. Still, I’m endlessly grateful to celebrate us today, knowing how far we’ve come and how deeply our love reflects the beauty and resilience of our communities.
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Here’s to us, to love without limits, and to all the ways we’ll keep creating the world we deserve. I love you, Monique, forever and always. 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

12/18/2024

Image Description: The second article as part of the Power and Fitness Series is now available on my Patreon. It’s entitled: “The Influx of White Christian Nationalism in Fitness Spaces.” Details in the caption.
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I am in a place where I feel like writing again so I decided to create a series of about seven articles. Some topics I’ll be discussing are listed below:

• Introduction: Fitness is not Neutral
• The Influx of White Christian Nationalism in Fitness Spaces
• Healthism and The Medicalization of Fitness
• Exercise vs Movement
• Nutritionism & The Nutritional Gaze
• Embracing Physical Movement Through a Decolonial Lens
• Collective Liberation Through Movement
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Once the series is complete I plan to transform these articles into a course for a more in-depth exploration.
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You can check out the first two articles of the series available to all members of my Patreon no matter the tier level. **Connect with me on the tree in my info section**

12/06/2024

Slide One: Fitness is Not Neutral

Slide Two: Modern fitness is shaped by historical and cultural systems of power, often valuing conformity over authentic well-being.

Slide Three: The Roots of Exclusion: Mainstream fitness culture has long upheld systems of colonialism, yt supremacy, and ableism, erasing diverse ways of moving and existing.

Slide Four: Eugenics in Fitness:
Eugenic ideologies historically weaponized fitness to categorize and devalue bodies based on race, gender, and ability.

Slide Five: Reimagine Movement for Liberation: Let’s reclaim movement by honoring cultural traditions, ecological harmony and community-driven movement that uplifts all bodies.
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Be sure to sign up for my free newsletter to check out more of my thoughts. You can also become a member of my Patreon to read the full article: “Introduction: Fitness is Not Neutral” as part of my Power and Fitness series.

11/24/2024

Image Reads: “Be sure to sign up for my free newsletter where I share weekly Decolonizing Fitness offerings and community resources. Details in Caption”
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**Connect with me on tree in my info section**
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I am currently using my online platforms (especially my Patreon and newsletter) to share resources you may find helpful. My aim is to disseminate more information that isn’t hidden behind paywall. Come join me off this platform.
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My current offerings are:
“‘Navigating Perimenopause and Strength Training for Trans and Gender Expansive People’ and the “Decolonizing Fitness Podcast Recommendations” spreadsheet available to all members of my Patreon community no matter the tier level.
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