Each of us has one body to travel through this world in and, unfortunately, many of us have not been taught to love these bodies. Catherine Hernandez feels that we can learn to love our bodies just as they are and that 2017 is a great time to start.
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Coco Dolle’s Performance Collective Legacy Fatale
New York artist Coco Dolle found her alter-ego and the reference point from which to build her own iconography for her performance art collective, Legacy Fatale, re-contextualizing the historical Amazon as the champion of her vision of an egalitarian and feminist future.
How Chronic Lyme Disease Changed My Life
After numerous doctors confirmed that I did not have Lyme disease, one doctor finally told me I did. I cried of happiness.
At Your Cervix: Making Pelvic Exams Ethical, Consensual, & Pain-Free
At Your Cervix is a documentary exposing the unethical ways of teaching pelvic exams to medical students to make them respectful & pain-free.
How I Learned the Study of Light
I came to Oaxaca to study light and left with a new appreciation of not only how light dictates art, but how it shapes our day to day.
I Climbed Kilimanjaro and it Changed My Life
Climbing Kilimanjaro is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. It’s also the most important.
“Too Pretty For This Shit”: On Being a Female Artist
As an artist, your studio becomes your sanctum, your safe haven for investigating your visceral truths without judgement. That is until you start having studio visits.
Isabel Urbina Peña On Gender Balance in the Creative Field
As a letterer and graphic designer, Isabel Urbina Peña has a longstanding passion for everything related to letters. … These discussions led her to create the Yes, Equal project, a database of female creatives.
AWT & Y7 Team Up: Relieving Anxiety Through Yoga
We chatted with Dina Smirnova and Y7 Yoga owner Sarah Levey about how yoga has shaped their lives and alleviated their own anxieties.
Teachers on Special Education: Teach the Children Well
Educators Lauren Bowden and Sarah Brooks talk about what it’s truly like to teach those who are too often cast aside.
We Are the Youth: Phoenix
The following story was included in We Are the Youth, a collection of profiles and photographs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender youth across the United States.
We Are the Youth: Q&A with Laurel Golio and Diana Scholl
We Are the Youth is an ongoing photojournalism project (and a beautiful book) that documents the as-told-by experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender and questioning youth across the country.