THE BODY POSITIVITY PROJECT A Collaborative Zine Compiled by Hannah Sigourney
PROJECT
What does body positivity mean to you? What self-care routines make your body feel good? What do you need to feel nourished, energized, and strong? What can you eliminate from your life that doesn't make you feel good? POSITIVITY A Collaborative Zine Compiled by Hannah Sigourney
For her LDST 532 final project, Hannah Sigourney, a junior studying Communications and Leadership at The University of Kansas, worked with Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity to create an Instagram campaign and compile this collaborative zine project promoting body positivity. Hannah invited members of the KU community and beyond to submit a page or pages for inclusion in this zine. The Body Positivity Project represents its contributors' responses to the prompts below.
THE BODY
PROMPTS
"I Am Beautiful" Hannah Sigourney (she/her) "Self Care" Jyoti Gangaraju (she/her) "Body Evolution As Revolution" Nikita Haynie (she/her) "Body Positivity" Clare Ballard (she/her) "Unapologetically, Radically, & Beautifully Original" Maranda Scheller (she/her) "Loving Myself Is A Constant Struggle" Megan Williams (she/her) "Unveil" S. Rupsha Mitra (she/her)
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— SONYA RENEE TAYLOR, THE BODY IS NOT AN APOLOGY: THE POWER OF RADICAL SELF-LOVE " " “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in history. A quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
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— NAOMI WOLFE, THE BEAUTY MYTH: HOW IMAGES OF BEAUTY ARE USED AGAINST WOMEN a mad white queer cisgender woman with a bipolar II disorder diagnosis, socialized within a middle class white supremacist capitalist patriarchal culture, I have struggled with perfectionism, poor self-esteem, body shame, and self-hatred my entire life. Thin and athletic throughout junior and high school, my weight has fluctuated since I went to college. Yo yoing between 150 lbs. and 210 lbs. I've done every diet in an effort to be thin. At the times in my life when I have been at my heaviest, including at present, internalized white supremacist patriarchal fat phobia plagues me. Loving myself is a constant struggle. thathavebeenusedtobothdegradeblackwomenanddisciplinewhitewomen."
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—SABRINASTRINGS,FEARINGTHEBLACKBODY:THERACIALORIGINSOFFATPHOBIA SMASH WHITE SUPREMACIST CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY END FAT PHOBIA // END BODY SHAMING classic grrrl — Megan Williams — 2021 BLACK FEMINISTS and riot grrrls have offered me powerful self-love tools.
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HANNAH SIGOURNEY (she/her), KU Junior, Communication Studies & Leadership Studies JYOTI GANGARAJU (she/her), Lawrence Community Member NIKITA HAYNIE (she/her), Assistant Director, KU Sorority & Fraternity Life CLARE BALLARD (she/her), KU ETCWGE "Make Zines, Do Feminism" Facebook Group Member MARANDA SCHELLER (she/her), KU Senior, Applied Behavioral Science, Sociology, & Leadership Studies MEGAN WILLIAMS (she/her), Assistant Director, KU Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity THE BODY POSITIVITY PROJECT A Collaborative Zine Compiled by Hannah Sigourney ZINE RELEASE & REFLECTION Thursday, 4/29, 5 - 6 pm Register for Zoom link & passcode: http://bit.ly/KUETCWGE-BoPo PANEL OF FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS People with disabilities are encouraged to attend ETCWGE events For accommodations, please contact etcwge@ku edu
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WeinviteYOUtosubmitan8.5"x11"pageresponding totheprompt/saboveforinclusioninVol.2ofour collaborativezineproject.Allsubmissionswillbe compiledintoajointzine! WRITTENAND/ORVISUALSUBMISSIONSMAY INCLUDE,BUTARENOTLIMITEDTOESSAYS, PERSONALNARRATIVES,POETRY,COLLAGE,COMICS, DRAWINGS,ORPHOTOGRAPHS. SMASHTHEPATRIARCHY! “Patriarchyisapoliticalsocialsystemthatinsiststhatmalesareinherentlydominating, superiortoeverythingandeveryonedeemedweak,especiallyfemales,andendowedwiththe righttodominateandruleovertheweakandtomaintainthatdominancethroughvarious formsofpsychologicalterrorismandviolence.” bellhooks,"UnderstandingPatriarchy" “Patriarchyasasystemishistorical:ithasabeginninginhistory[and]itcanbeendedby historicalprocess.” GerdaLerner,TheCreationofPatriarchy HOWDOYOUEXPERIENCEPATRIARCHYINYOUREVERYDAYLIFE? GIVENTHATPATRIARCHYISANHISTORICALCONSTRUCT,HOWMIGHT WEWORKTOCHALLENGEANDULTIMATELYDISMANTLEIT? CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS KU ETCWGE's Collaborative Zine Project, Vol. 2 ZINEPAGEPROMPT: SUBMISSIONS DUE JULY 1, 2021
