By Jessica Zucker — 2021
For women like me who lose our nipples to breast cancer, learning to love our changed bodies can be a journey.
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I had spent years disliking my body and now I would give anything to have it back!
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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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When I said I was struggling, people would tell me I was beautiful. The world had drained out all the metrics of measuring beautiful and replaced it with scales and calorie counts.
What I’m hoping to do here is help portray the incapacitated form in an optimistic light and defy the labels enforced upon us by society.
Although body positivity urges acceptance of all kinds of bodies, the movement still has room for improvement. Notably, people with disabilities, who through inaccessibility and lack of representation are often made to feel “other” by non-disabled folks.