Turning beauty standards upside-down. Image by Flickr user Ray Dehler. The author, Julie Strupp, is a francophone American writer living in Togo, West Africa. She’s currently serving as a gender…
Body for Rent: Coming to Rest In My Own Form
Do you have an accurate image of your body? Sometimes it’s hard to love if you don’t know what it really looks like. Image from Healthy Is the New Skinny…
Let’s Get Naked, Grandma!
Have you ever been scrubbed down by a Korean grandma–someone else’s Korean grandma? I have, and it was delightful. Perfectly painful, yet peaceful at the same time. Of course, the…
More Body Talk
A/n: an adaptation of this article was originally published on Not Another Wave in January 2011. There’s a lot of publicity given to the “majority” culture pressure that is put…