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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Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession.
Trans people are often made to feel such shame about their bodies and we often are held up to impossible standards based on normative ideas about bodies and expression — it is time that we acknowledge how far many of us have come, and that we celebrate all the things that makes our bodies trans.
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