By Kerry Manders — 2020
Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.
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Treatment for breast cancer is difficult for any woman, but for a lesbian, it can be especially difficult.
I had spent years disliking my body and now I would give anything to have it back!
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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.
I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.
Paige More gets real about what it was like to be a body positivity advocate who didn’t love her own body, and how she’s repairing her relationship with it now.
The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.
Knowing that all people who undergo treatment for cancer will face some sort of changes to their bodies and self-perception is both normalizing and challenging.