Lynn Pedotto interviews Katie Frank about sexuality education for children with disabilities.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.
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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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I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.
Paige More gets real about what it was like to be a body positivity advocate who didn’t love her own body, and how she’s repairing her relationship with it now.
The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.
A feminist breast cancer memoir of medical trauma, love, and how she found the strength to listen to her body. As a young, queer woman, Catherine Guthrie had worked hard to feel at home in her body.
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . .
In the documentary “The Weight of Gold,” Phelps presents a stark picture of the mental wear and tear Olympians endure.
Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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