By Aubrey Gordon — 2020
Often, body positivity and fat activism exclude disabled people. It’s past time to change that.
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Sometimes you have to come up with unique ways to show love if your partner has a disability.
I’m learning that my challenge isn’t just to unlearn what my family has taught me, but to put myself in situations that would reaffirm the new lessons I was trying to replace the old ones with.
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Meet the model and body activist challenging beauty norms, bullies, and online trolls.
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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Through the size of her platform, however, and her decision to choose well-being over pursuit of a Grand Slam title, Osaka offers the promise of bringing mental health awareness—both inside and outside of sports—to an entirely new level.