Smile for the Camera: Unraveling Misconceptions Within the Fashion World

We feel normal until someone decides that we must know their version of the truth.  It is incredibly hard to gain self-esteem when the world decides that you cannot possibly be comfortable in yourself. In the disabled community, scars are not new, rare, or shocking by any means but that doesn’t stop able bodied people […]

Finding the Beauty Within my Own Flesh and Bones

Like so many in our generation, I have dealt with my fair share of body positivity issues. Frankly, it sucks. But that doesn’t stop anyone from inadvertently aiding and embedding impossible ideals of beauty.    Most often my insecurity lies within the scars on my legs. Little lines that I have never seen myself without. […]

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 […]