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Model Harnaam Kaur Says Her Beard Is a Blessing

Meet the model and body activist challenging beauty norms, bullies, and online trolls.

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Hillary Gillis
2017
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How to Shift from ‘Body Positivity’ to ‘Body Neutrality’ — and Why You Should

Accepting your body and loving it aren't mutually exclusive ideas, but body neutrality offers a firm middle ground between body hate and body love.

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Crystal Raypole
2021
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Natalie Jill Has a Profound Piece of Advice for Anyone Stressing Over a ‘Summer Body’

‘Tis the season for bathing suits and pool parties. If you’re worried about having a “summer body,” master sports nutritionist Natalie Jill has a suggestion: Learn to love the body you’re in and what it can do for you, instead of focusing on the parts you might not be so happy with.

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Parade
2019
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I Won’t Be Renewing My ‘Vogue’ Subscription—I’m Not Inspired by Images That Don’t Represent the Beauty of Diversity

My aim is to educate young people so they are aware of body image and mental health. When there is such a strict ideal of beauty that only a small majority of us can relate to, it makes us feel inadequate.

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Iskra Lawrence
2016
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With ‘No Fats, No Femmes,’ Fatima Jamal Aims for More than Just Visibility and Representation

“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?”

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Tre’vell Anderson
2020
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10 Body Positive Instagrammers with Disabilities You Should Follow Immediately

Although body positivity urges acceptance of all kinds of bodies, the movement still has room for improvement. Notably, people with disabilities, who through inaccessibility and lack of representation are often made to feel “other” by non-disabled folks.

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Nina Matti
2017
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The Importance of Social Media When It Comes to LGBTQ Kids Feeling Seen

For LGBTQ youth in particular, the Internet can be a refuge—a safe place to feel less alone. For queer youth to feel normal, they need to see, read and hear the voices of others who look like them and use the same identifying labels.

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Amber Leventry
2019
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Model Iskra Lawrence on Why You Should “Call Out the Haters”

To celebrate Straight/Curve, a new documentary about female body image, the New York model opens up what it will take to accept—and love—your own body.

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Iskra Lawrence
2016
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The Lady with a Beard: ‘If You’ve Got it, Rock it!’

At 25, Harnaam Kaur holds the world record as the youngest woman to have a full beard. For years, she was bullied. Now she’s an Instagram star.

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Homa Khaleeli
2016
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How to Practice Body Neutrality: Accepting Your Body as It Is

Body neutrality is the idea of accepting your body as it is. Because that's easier said than done, this is a discussion of tools that will help.

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Ariane Resnick
2021
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