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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

By Iskra Lawrence — 2016

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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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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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.

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Why Do So Many Gay and Bisexual Men Struggle With Body Image?

What began as a proud assertion of identity has itself become a trope; the stereotype of a gay man now is one who goes to the gym and takes care of himself.

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Body Image