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Body
Image as a scapegoat for our worries
She sat frozen across from me, tears suspended on
her cheeks, while I breathed in her words and saw
through her pain. So much of this pain gets siffened
through the image of ourselves. Relating negatively
to our bodies has been, for many, the only expressive
conduit for our feelings, disappointments, and desires.
We reach for the Ben and Jerry's, pull on old t-shirts,
fall into the creases of the couch and cry our pain
away... Read
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Challenging the Bone Goddess
An artist friend of mine was talking about how much
more interesting it was for her to draw fat bodies
than skinny ones. I've noticed that it can be the
same to look at fat bodies. I like fat. I've gotten
jealous before of friends' luscious, buttery fat
that makes them seem especially graceful and sensual...Read
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Clitoral Stimulation
I grew up in a religious
family, where the word sex was never mentioned.
I was raised thinking that God saw everything, and
that he was everywhere, and that on judgment day
everyone was going to see everything I had ever
done, and everything I had thought in my entire
life. Because of this, I was scared of masturbating.
Premarital sex was out of the question. Read
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Our Bodies
Our bodies are beautiful,
chaotic, and necessary. We, as a movement of women,
must continue to critique and challenge social norms
that perpetuate the objectification and commodification
of our bodies. This section is dedicated to the
resistance of media-constructed femininity, and
the creation of new social norms and images of women,
by women. Read
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