Tag: Body Image

How a trans woman found the surgery that could restore her sense of self.

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

The claws of diet culture dig in early, and they dig in deep.

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.

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.

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.

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

Chaya Bhuvaneswar contemplates the powerful evolution of a woman’s beauty over time.

Three million women tuned in last year. Here’s why.

After decades of shame, discrimination in the ballet world, and some serious back pain, Lisa W. Rosenberg concludes it’s time to down-size her double-E knockers.

Cora Harrington’s first book, In Intimate Detail, is an accessible, inclusive guide to undergarments.

In this intimate and moving essay, Gabrielle Bellot decides she needs to stop allowing others to define her.

Roxane Gay tapped 24 writers to address what it’s like to live in an “unruly” body today.

Pauline Campos tries to forget the harsh words that shaped her understanding of her body growing up — for her daughter’s sake, and her own.

Carmen Maria Machado’s stunning essay in Guernica on the power of women who take up space is an important read for people of any size.

This week, read stories by Mark MacKinnon, Rachel Cusk, Carmen Maria Machado, Suketu Mehta, and an excerpt from Bill Hayes.

After navigating a lifetime of being fat (and ashamed) in the US, Jonatha Kottler moved to the Netherlands and found a whole new universe of exclusion.

The unexpected joys of adult beginner ballet.

If the “real” self is inside us, why do we constantly seek to transform our outer surfaces?

Sara Benincasa’s essay “Why Am I So Fat?” was one of our top five reads last week, and with good reason — it was honest and cutting in all the right ways. It was brash and unapologetic and funny as hell (and also suggests that perhaps Fader was slightly premature in declaring, earlier this year, that […]