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Body Image & shame

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Living Without Shame: How We Can Empower Ourselves | Whitney Thore | TEDxGreensboro

How do we handle self-perception when our bodies don't match the ideal social image? The answer is to find a way to live without shame.

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Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better)

Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.

Lindo Bacon, Ijeoma Oluo (foreword)

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Runwayriot’s Iskra Lawrence on What to Do If Your Mom’s a Body Shamer | Unfiltered - Episode 012

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FindCenter I never asked for your approval. I am not a destination for your insecurities. I am a human being: born with a heart, two lungs, and no shame.

Alok Vaid-Menon

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Karen Fat Shames Woman, Instantly Regrets It

Fat shaming/ body shaming is never cool.

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The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to be normalcy and refuge from the steady stream of self-hate society strengthened inside her.

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I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough”

The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting. There is a constant barrage of social expectations that teach us that being imperfect is synonymous with being inadequate. Everywhere we turn, there are messages that tell us who, what and how we’re supposed to be.

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FindCenter It must be exhausting to feel as if your worth comes from winnowing yourself down to other people’s opinions of who you should be.

Alok Vaid-Menon

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Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other

Drawing on her own and others' experiences, Loulan explores what it means to be lesbian: how we live our lives and how we want to live our lives - with passion - "passion is not only about sex, but about the life force that energizes it.

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Brené with Sonya Renee Taylor on "The Body is Not an Apology"

In this episode Sonya Renee Taylor and I talk about body shame, radical self-love, and social justice. This conversation was a big unlocking for me – especially when it comes to understanding the connection between how we think about our bodies and oppression.

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

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