Body Language Writers On Identity Physicality And Making Space For Ourselves Nicole Chung by Nicole Chung, Matt Ortile 9781646221325, 9781646221318, 164622132X, 1646221311 instant download after payment.

Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, & inseparable from our experiences & identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue & confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, & the embodied experience of race in deep, challenging ways.
 
Selected from the archives of Catapult, the essays in Body Language affirm & challenge the personal & political conversations around human bodies from the perspectives of thirty writers diverse in race, age, gender, size, sexuality, health, ability, geography, & class—a brilliant group probing & speaking their own truths about their bodies & identities, refusing to submit to others’ expectations about how their bodies should look, function, & behave.
 
Covering a wide range of experiences—from art modeling as a Black woman to nostalgia for a brutalizing high school sport, from the frightening upheaval of cancer diagnoses to the small beauties of funeral sex—this collection is intelligent, sensitive, & unflinchingly candid. Through the power of personal narratives, as told by writers at all stages of their careers, Body Language reflects the many ways in which we understand & inhabit our bodies.
 
Featuring essays by A.E. Osworth, Andrea Ruggirello, Aricka Foreman, Austin Gilkeson, Bassey Ikpi, Bryan Washington, Callum Angus, Destiny O. Birdsong, Eloghosa Osunde, Forsyth Harmon, Gabrielle Bellot, Haley Houseman, Hannah Walhout, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Jess Zimmerman, Kaila Philo, Karissa Chen, Kayla Whaley, Maggie