By Annaham on 14 September, 2010
Astrid van Woerkom at Astrid’s Journal: “Exercise For Mental Health!” Bakker forgets the barriers to exercise that some people encounter. Due to the construction going on, I cannot take walks on grounds unaccompanied anymore. I cannot navigate the busy gym during fitness class. If I want to bike, I need to go on a tandem. [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, asperger syndrome, awareness, awareness campaigns, barriers to access, body, body image, daily life, exercise, fat, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, identity, illness, invisible disabilities, invisible disability, medical care, medicine, mental health, race, recommended reading
By s.e. smith on 11 September, 2010
Conversations about body image come up often in feminist communities, and unfortunately, many of those conversations are predicated on the dual ideas that all people should love their bodies and that lovable bodies are healthy ones. This can be seen in the language used by campaigns designed to get people thinking about body image; I [...]
Posted in 101, bodies, feminism, identity, invisibility, social attitudes | Tagged body image
By s.e. smith on 1 August, 2010
A reader wrote in to Emily Yoffe at Dear Prudence this week with the following: My 7-year-old daughter is smart, pretty, and fun. Her father is of Hispanic descent, and he’s gorgeous, but he has a lot of thick, black body hair—including a “unibrow,” which he’s plucked since he was a teenager. Our daughter has [...]
Posted in bodies, Dear Imprudence, feminism | Tagged body image, Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe, self esteem
By amandaw on 5 February, 2010
Kate Harding, writing at Broadsheet: “If you ask us,” say Glamour editor Cindi Leive and Arianna Huffington, “the next feminist issue is sleep.” Personally, I never would have thought to ask those two what the next feminist issue is, but they make a pretty good case. “Americans are increasingly sleep-deprived, and the sleepiest people are, you [...]
Posted in bodies, feminism, gender, identity, intersectionality, language, media and pop culture, representations, shaming, social attitudes, Uncategorized | Tagged body image, chronic illness, community, control, culture, disability, family, feminism, health, privilege, social construction
By Guest on 3 February, 2010
We have the highest respect for the use of TAB and “temporarily
able-bodied.” Using it is a way for a disability activist (or anyone
discussing disability) to quickly and effectively bring all of her/his
listeners into one group: some of us are disabled now and many of us
will be sooner or later. It’s a phrase that builds community, that
reminds people that the needs of some are really the needs of
everyone. It’s akin to
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_design">“universal
design” as a phrase reminding us of what brings us together,
rather than what separates us.
Posted in age, bodies, guest post, language, social attitudes | Tagged ability, activism, aging, body image, body impolitic, disability, TAB, temporarily able-bodied
By Anna on 27 October, 2009
I’m writing this four days before you’ll see it. (I write most of my posts from the past, due to my schedule.) I mention this so people know that I’m not ignoring recent posts, I’m just not seeing them yet. Disability & Desire: The Dance of the Heart – This is a pointer link. The [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, barriers to access, body image, invisible disabilities, life balance, neurotypical, pain management, parenting
By amandaw on 22 October, 2009
(Originally posted April 2008 in two parts at three rivers fog.) this is new to me. this idea that i should love my body. not hate it. it’s funny, because i was about to say “this isn’t a post about body image.” but it is, isn’t it? let’s cut to the point. i’m not talking [...]
Posted in bodies, identity, normality | Tagged body image, disability, identity, normality, self-acceptance
By amandaw on 21 October, 2009
Amanda flags a great post by Anne C at Existence is Wonderful, which catalogues “three different ways of looking at autism — in terms of neurological structure, in terms of lived experience, and in terms of outward behavior.” And Anne does such wonderful things with this delineation. Click through to read the whole post, which [...]
Posted in bodies, normality, Uncategorized | Tagged autism, body image, communication, conceptions of disability, difference, disability, language, mislabelling, myths and misconceptions, normality, research, science, self-acceptance, social treatment, symptoms
By amandaw on 19 October, 2009
Perhaps this is the wrong question. Instead, I propose: What is there to heal? Healing is the process of a body, having been injured in some way, doing what it takes to restore itself to normalcy. Merriam-Webster says, specifically, “to make sound or whole” and “to restore to original purity or integrity.” Take note of [...]
Posted in bodies, feminism, intersectionality, language, normality, violence | Tagged abuse, body image, difference, feminism, healing, justice, language, rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, trauma, wholeness, word use
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