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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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Models Chella Man and Aaron Philip Demand Better Representation for Disabled Communities

Models and best friends Chella Man and Aaron Philip are challenging fashion ideals. The two discuss growing up feeling excluded and invisible and detail the bravery it takes to be the change you want to see.

Article
Tish Weinstock
2020
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18:00

We Are Nothing (and That Is Beautiful): Alok Vaid-Menon at TEDxMiddlebury

Alok Vaid-Menon discusses the relationship between success and the status quo in this TEDxMiddlebury talk. They draw upon experiences at Stanford and beyond and perform spoken word poetry.

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Alok Vaid-Menon
2013
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Welcome to Body Week

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.

Article
them. content team
2021
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Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities

Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession.

Book
Dawn Atkins (editor)
1998
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Discussing Body Image in the Context of the LGBTQIA+ Community

Body image is particularly important to discuss in the context of the LGBTQIA+ community, due to the prevalence of eating disorders and similar issues that disproportionately impact those who identify as LGBTQIA+.

Article
Meghan Shaw
2021
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Can We Choose Our Own Identity?

Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?

Article
Kwame Anthony Appiah
2018
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02:00

I’m Transgender and I Love My Trans Body

Trans people are often made to feel such shame about their bodies and we often are held up to impossible standards based on normative ideas about bodies and expression — it is time that we acknowledge how far many of us have come, and that we celebrate all the things that makes our bodies trans.

Video
2018
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