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body dysmorphia

Posted inEditor's Pick

On Reflection

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

“Angelina Mazza spends a lot of time looking at her body. And yet, she explains, she’s never truly seen it.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Body of Lies

by Deenie Hartzog-Mislock April 8, 2020December 9, 2022

Deenie Hartzog-Mislock confronts a lifetime of body image trauma when her marriage turns south and sexless.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story

Running Dysmorphic

by Devin Kelly December 4, 2019December 30, 2022

On competitive running, exactness, and finding permission to be myself.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

What’s Happening to My Body?

by Devorah Heitner September 12, 2019January 27, 2023

Devorah Heitner reflects on the ways she is reclaiming her relationship to her own body while grappling with the legacy of her mother’s poor body image and early death.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Whole 60

by Laura Lippman July 16, 2019February 10, 2023

The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.

Posted inNonfiction

School for Girls

by Jasmin Aviva Sandelson June 18, 2019October 26, 2022

Years after recovering from anorexia, Jasmin Sandelson writes a letter to the high school friend she idolized, and explores how hunger, love, and envy shaped — and ended — their relationship.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

No Surgery Can Fix a Self-Defeating World View

by Krista Stevens May 28, 2019October 19, 2022

Brick had gotten a new jaw, nose, and cheekbones from a surgeon in California, costing him around $30,000, and still he was furious at women and the world.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Reappearing Act

by Sari Botton February 28, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which, in the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

The Reappearing Act

by Audrey Olivero February 26, 2019October 19, 2022

In the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

The Reappearing Act

by Audrey Olivero February 26, 2019October 19, 2022

In the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.

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