Each of these pieces aims to consider our bodies as they are, rather than how we’re taught they should be.
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Body Week
This week we’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure. We’re approaching our queer bodies with love, hesitation, and halting acceptance — and with a clear eye towards all the revolutionary potential they hold.
Here's a fun topic to bring up at brunch: everybody talk about the last time they couldn't get it up. Because it’s normal!
The LGBTQ+ romantic comedy revival is here — but fat people are still the unseen other.
These four queer, disabled individuals discuss their right to self-expression and need for the fashion industry to do better.
“We can demand a world where trans women get to choose whether to get bottom surgery or tuck, not from a place of fear or shame, but from a place that centers our autonomy.”
"My eating disorder was the only thing that gave me control over my appearance, until I realized I was losing myself."
“Even if ‘I’m neutral about my body!’ doesn’t seem like something to shout from the rooftops, that’s actually kind of the point: Body neutrality meets me where I am.”
"As a gay, Black dancer living with HIV, being single during the pandemic helped me realize I was treating myself as a sexual object."
