By Katharine Quarmby — 2015
How misperceptions about disability can prevent people with physical and cognitive impairments from being able to express their sexuality.
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I had spent years disliking my body and now I would give anything to have it back!
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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.
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.
Strangers remove food from her shopping trolley, humiliate her in the gym and refuse to sit next to her on planes. How did size get to be such a big deal?
Body image issues ought to have no place in sports, but it stops many women from getting involved. It’s time to celebrate female bodies for what they can do.
How you feel about your body can influence your physical activity participation.
Body image issues are rising fast among men. But positivity campaigners are raising the profile of men of all shapes and sizes
Body acceptance in our culture is a tall order even on the best of days, but it becomes even more complicated when we are in pain, or disabled, or have limitations that are affecting our quality of life.
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