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Body Positivity & vulnerability

Below are the best resources we could find on Body Positivity and vulnerability.

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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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‘It Has Taught Me Life Is too Short to Be Negative About My Body’: This Is How Cancer Really Affects Your Body Image

I had spent years disliking my body and now I would give anything to have it back!

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Roxane Gay—Fitting Into the World in “Hunger” | The Daily Show

Author Roxane Gay opens up about the childhood attack that led to her weight gain, the unwelcome advice she gets daily and writing a different kind of memoir as a fat woman.

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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.

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Readers Write/Vanity

I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.

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Roxane Gay Talks “Hunger” And “Not That Bad” In DC

Roxane Gay discusses her books, “Hunger” And “Not That Bad”, at a Politics and Prose event at Sixth and I on 6/13/18.

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Language: Race, Labels and Becoming Featuring Eniafe Isis, Writer, All Her Words

In this conversation with Eniafe Isis, we talk about language, race, labels and how together, they heavily influence the eloquence or the challenge in how we speak love into ourselves and how we believe in ourselves.

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Sexual Trauma: Shame, Healing and Resilience Featuring Deun Ivory, Creative Director, Founder, The Body: A Home for Love

In this first episode, I spoke to Deun specifically around the work of her nonprofit called The Body: A Home for Love, a wellness and healing space for black women who are survivors of sexual assault.

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Motherhood: The Fourth Trimester, Transformation, Womanhood Featuring Qimmah Saafir, Founder, Hannah Magazine

Today we’re joined by Bronx-native Qimmah Saafir. Qimmah is the creator of self-published HANNAH, an independent journal that celebrates and provides safe spaces for Black women.

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Biraciality: Betweenness and Feeling More Than Enough Featuring Elaine Welteroth, New York Times Bestseller

Elaine Welteroth is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist and judge on Project Runway. Today we’re talking about the spectrum of betweenness, navigating both black and white worlds, and how that journey has laid the foundation for her identity, community and life’s work.

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