Body Positivity Archives

Loving My Love Handles Like Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham empowered her actors to act through their bodies. In the six years that I’ve followed Girls, it has made me not cringe at my own nudity.

Amrita Paul July 7, 2016

Social Experiment

Love Letters To a Jiggly Bum & Wiggly Thighs

Would you be a more content person if you could talk to the body parts you were unhappy with? A Mumbai artist was about to find out.

Shivani Krishan June 11, 2016

Gender

At Home in My Panties

I didn’t move out of my parent’s house to party hard. I just wanted to watch Romedy Now and eat chips in my underwear.

Tia Basu June 5, 2016

Gender

I Was All for Body Positivity… Until I Gained Weight and Couldn’t Fit In My Clothes

We’ve been trained to believe that hating the way our body looks, feels, and weighs is another way of subscribing to societal demands of female beauty. It’s dangerous and self-destructive. But if I’m being honest, maintaining a veneer of body positivity, when you can’t stop thinking of your weight, feels much the same to me at this point.

Meghalee Mitra June 1, 2016

First Person

I Am Fat Because My Body Houses All My Trauma

I was constantly being told that I needed to lose weight to look good, to find a boyfriend, to be accepted. But staying fat was probably my body’s rebellion against the society that so desperately wanted to change me. My body is a vault that stores all my secrets, all my traumas.

Manjiri Indurkar March 17, 2016