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3 Positive Body Image Activities & Worksheets

By Courtney E. Ackerman — 2020

How do you feel about your body? If you don’t immediately answer “Great!” with a smile—don’t worry, you’re not alone! This is a very common problem for people today, especially women.

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These 7 Black Influencers and Bloggers Are Challenging Fatphobia

To say that fatphobia is not connected to anti-Blackism is to not understand the deep-rooted history between the two.

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Harnaam Kaur Wants You to Know that “Your Body Is Yours, and It’s Only for You to Experiment With”

The removal of women's body hair has been a social requirement for as long as I can remember. At age 14, I was begging my mum to let me get my eyebrows threaded and my upper lip waxed, and for her to finally introduce me to "the razor.

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Models Chella Man and Aaron Philip Demand Better Representation for Disabled Communities

Models and best friends Chella Man and Aaron Philip are challenging fashion ideals. The two discuss growing up feeling excluded and invisible and detail the bravery it takes to be the change you want to see.

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For Queer Men of Color, Pressure to Have a Perfect Body Is About Race Too

For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.

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Can We Choose Our Own Identity?

Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?

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No More Mr Muscle: The Activists Championing Body Confidence for Men

Body image issues are rising fast among men. But positivity campaigners are raising the profile of men of all shapes and sizes

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How Latin America’s Obsession With Whiteness Is Hurting Us

Close to 11% of American adults with Hispanic ancestors don’t even identify as Hispanic or Latino.

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Elisa Shankle, Cofounder of HealHaus, Shares Her Wellness Routine in a Difficult Time

The entrepreneur and community leader on healing, boundaries, and tuning into yourself.

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Obama’s People and the African Americans: The Language of Othering

To the list of identities Black people in America have assumed or been asked to, we can now add, thanks to this presidential election season, “Obama’s people” and “the African Americans.”

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