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Learning to Accept (if Not Love) My Scar

The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.

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Steven Petrow
2017
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I’m Not Gonna Tell You You’re Beautiful

When I said I was struggling, people would tell me I was beautiful. The world had drained out all the metrics of measuring beautiful and replaced it with scales and calorie counts.

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Danielle LaPorte
2013
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Learning the Difference Between Body Image and Body Reality

How we perceive our bodies greatly impacts our self-esteem. Here are five steps you can take toward loving your body unconditionally.

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Abigail Bassett
2020
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Free the Nippleless! From Ourselves and the Shame of Living in a Society that Rarely Acknowledges Us

For women like me who lose our nipples to breast cancer, learning to love our changed bodies can be a journey.

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Jessica Zucker
2021
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Harnaam Kaur Wants You to Know that “Your Body Is Yours, and It’s Only for You to Experiment With”

The removal of women's body hair has been a social requirement for as long as I can remember. At age 14, I was begging my mum to let me get my eyebrows threaded and my upper lip waxed, and for her to finally introduce me to "the razor.

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Navi Ahluwalia
2021
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The Grace Project Is Facing Breast Cancer Through Photography: “We Get to See Women Transform into Goddesses”

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.

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Eleanor J. Bader
2021
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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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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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SARK’s new book: ‘Glad No Matter What’

For the grieving, there is SARK. For women who hate their bodies, there is SARK. For creative spirits in need of awakening, there is SARK. For the money stressed, there, too, is SARK.

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Julian Guthrie
2011
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