By Lindsey Lanquist — 2017
Strength is a beautiful thing.
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CLEAR ALL
Meet the model and body activist challenging beauty norms, bullies, and online trolls.
We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.
What began as a proud assertion of identity has itself become a trope; the stereotype of a gay man now is one who goes to the gym and takes care of himself.
Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?
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Myth making, policy making and never the twain should meet.
The constant scrutiny into the runner’s medical history reveals what happens to women who don’t conform to stereotypes.