FAT-TALK-FREE FEBRUARY DAILY CHALLENGE: move, move, move.
A friend we lost too soon used to post videos of her kitchen dance parties. This is at least the third time I have included that this month. I do it because it just feels good. Today, try including someone else in your mini dance party. It doesn't have to be the kitchen. 😏 just find a time and a spot and take 30 seconds if that's all you can muster up.
Fox Tales Art focuses on the shaming of women's bodies. For the most part, I explore the embodied experience of shame of women who don't fit the current societally acceptable weight/shape/size. Today I wanted to acknowledge that there are all sizes of bodies that are shamed. Women are shamed for being too skinny, too tall, too bony, too fat, too lumpy, too curvy, not curvy enough, judged judged judged.
Women's bodies are treated as public space that can be expected to conform to an impossible idealized standard that in 2017 Canada is not actually attainable. Part of our body shape/size/weight is genetics, is structure, is just how it is. Short of starving myself, I will never be "thin". Not like in the magazines.
I can't imagine there are women out there who are smaller or bigger than the "ideal" who don't think about wanting to change.
The main message I have is: YOUR BODY IS YOUR BUSINESS! Hands off. Comments off. No one has the right to comment on or influence YOUR body. You know what your body needs.
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