Featured Image: “The deer whisperer. 🐐🐾🐾🐐” by gusdiaz is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Expelling darkness, I seek light, The walls vibrate, earth cascades to the ground, The duality of trepidation and thrill, Emerging, slowly, though quicker than sound. The clouds separate into cotton wool balls of whiteness, The promise of light captures me wholly, The hairs on my…
Featured Image: ‘beautiful faces’ by tommerton2010 The body positivity movement has grown in the past decade. Women are escaping the shackles and the voices that tell us that stretch marks are ugly, scars should be hidden, and cellulite is shameful. Beauty and health don’t necessarily align, and for the first time in living memory, we are…
Artwork: Laura Southgate @lsouthgateart Trigger Warning: People who have had issues with eating disorders, self harm, body dysmorphia or weight may find this content distressing, trauma reinforcing or triggering. If these issues affect you, please seek medical support. I put down the packet of hobnobs. Or more accurately the packet that used to contain Hobnobs….
An exploration of my journey with people who have disabilities, until the time I (possibly?) become one of them
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