Yesterday I was clicking through all the noise on social media, and I picked up on this new meme being discussed, the “bikini bridge.” I wrote a whole article on it in a couple hours and sent it off to Huff Po – and in the article I decried all of the objectifcation that is involved in ideas like the bikini bridge, the thigh gap, the muffin top, etc ad nauseum.
But I was also feeling fiery about comparison and fear in general. “The community of beauty” is an idea I have long advocated. It means that we reject competition and comparison and embrace beauty in all people. It means that we do not value ourselves less because we perceive beauty in others. It means that all human beings are equally worthy of being considered beautiful, and it means that we embrace our own unique manifestation of beauty, whatever that might be.
I felt so fiery I made a vlog. You may watch below. Many more vlogs on body love and how to achieve it are being uploaded to youtube as we speak. 🙂
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More on the community of beauty in the kickass womanhood manifesto, Sexy by Nature.(!) whoopah!
My publicist has insisted that youtube carries a whole world full of untapped lady-body-lovers, and that it is my lady empowerment duty to reach out to them. “Why not make videos about body image?” She asked. She was surprised when I recoiled in horror. “But… but that would take so much work. And no one would watch. And…yikes!”
I was nervous about undertaking yet another new thing. New things give me anxiety like you would never believe. (Well, perhaps you would.) I was not an expert in film making and I knew it was going to be a battle to get ‘er done.
It was. Lighting and camera position and editing and uploading was a nightmare.
Nonetheless, Susan was right. I made the video and am so glad I did. There will be a whole series of vlogs forthcoming. It’s fun. And I think I get to convey to you more easily in a vlog just how… egregiously…or absurdly… I care.
I really. really. really care.
Thus I bring you 10 Reasons to Love your Body.
I don’t want to give these reasons away–they’re really good ones–but let it stand as a teaser trailer that these are the precise tools I use in order to feel positively about my own body, my ownbiggerbody, every single day.
Especially reason number 4.
God, do I ever love reason number 4.
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