By RTE Content Team — 2020
“I was struggling with my identity, and was very fearful of being discovered for being gay,” he says.
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CLEAR ALL
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.
“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”
Despite their many visible differences, they’re bound together by more than breast cancer: They are linked through an ambitious portrait series meant to explore body image, illness and self-esteem called The Grace Project.
For women like me who lose our nipples to breast cancer, learning to love our changed bodies can be a journey.
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The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.
Creating spaces where the need to assimilate, conform, and belong are no longer important
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How we perceive our bodies greatly impacts our self-esteem. Here are five steps you can take toward loving your body unconditionally.
When I said I was struggling, people would tell me I was beautiful. The world had drained out all the metrics of measuring beautiful and replaced it with scales and calorie counts.