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Learning to Accept (if Not Love) My Scar

By Steven Petrow — 2017

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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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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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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them. content team
2021
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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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Philip Ellis
2019
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Can We Choose Our Own Identity?

Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?

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Kwame Anthony Appiah
2018
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