Disabled Women Continue to Be the Most Forgotten in Conversations About Eating Disorders
Karin Hitselberger remembers struggling with her body image and femininity at a young age. The blogger who describes herself as a “plus-sized woman in a wheelchair” says that the bulk of her body image issues stemmed from internalized ableism. She often felt that her womanhood was negated by her visible disability. Not only did this […]
My Scars are Trauma, Not Inspiration
Image illustrated by Staff Artist, Damaris Contreras. CW: medical trauma, graphic descriptions of injury The crack of the plaster fills the tiny doctor’s room, snapping open and ripping apart the cast I have spent the past six weeks picking at. One side, then the other, and my arm breathes for the first time in what […]