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Embrace: The Documentary

2016

Embrace follows body image activist Taryn Brumfitt's crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to change the way we feel about ourselves and think about our bodies.

90 min

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Plus Us: Does Your Body Positivity Waver on Ableist?

Body positivity has begun to leave behind some of the people who spoke it into existence — among them is the disabled community.

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Gianluca Russo
2022
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7 Seemingly Empowering Body-Positive Phrases That Actually Reinforce Ableism

Often, body positivity and fat activism exclude disabled people. It’s past time to change that.

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Aubrey Gordon
2020
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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.

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Rebekah Taussig
2024
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Wheelchair Rapunzel: ‘Growing up, I never knew I was allowed celebrate my disabled body’

Alex Dacy is a strong voice on Instagram for disabled body compassion and equality.

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Geraldine Walsh
2020
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Feeling Body-Positive When You Have a Disability

As a woman with a physical disability, I am usually glaringly aware of how my body is the polar opposite of what is deemed the norm.

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Kimmie Jones
2016
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The Body Image Lessons I Learned From Illness and Disability

I no longer care about my body being perfect. It’s taken a long time to get here, but I’ve realized my body has been through too much to spend time and energy caring about losing that extra 10 pounds or minimizing my scars.

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Angela Hartlin
2020
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I’m Done Punishing My Disabled Body for Your Comfort

I always had one goal in mind, which was to be able-bodied again.

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Aryanna Denk
2021
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What Body Acceptance Means to Me as a Disabled Woman

Internalized ableism occurs when disabled people internalize stigmatizing messages in society, like the low expectations that are often placed on those with disabilities. These expectations usually present in two ways.

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Erica Mones
2020
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How to be Comfortable in a Swimsuit at the Pool | Disability and Body Image

When it's hot out, and the pool is open the last thing that should be on anyone's mind is how they look in a swimsuit. It is a journey to being comfortable in your skin however you are born.

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2017
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TEDxMIA - Shelley Baer - The Beauty of Disability

Shelly Baer currently works at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Mailman Center for Child Development as Coordinator of the Emerging Transformational Leadership Program and is Director of Understanding the Family Perspective. Ms.

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2011
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