Showing results for "My Body" in Politics & Social Sciences

From Lucia Osborne-Crowley comes a necessary, elegant and empathetic work exploring the intricacies of abuse, trauma and shame. Through the voices of women, trans and non-binary people around the world and her own deeply moving testimony, Lucia speaks of vulnerability and acceptance and the reclaiming of ourselves in a world that repeatedly asks us to carry the weight of the shame of the atrocities committed against us.

In this book of key spiritual teachings recorded by one his translators, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, teaches us that we’re not limited to the body. Because of our mistaken body identity, we feel separate from what we truly are. Our identification with the body and mind subjects us to endless cycles of pleasure and pain, desire and fear, which cause us to search beyond ourselves for that which we believe we lack.

Part trans woman’s coming-out story and part queer romance, My Body Is Distant is a memoir immersed in virtual worlds, where identity is fluid and fantasies proliferate, and where Maylott can escape her battle with cancer and the life-altering decisions she must make about the body she was born in and the person she really is.

The fight for reproductive freedom is more urgent than ever. That’s why we’re bringing you My Body. My Pod. — a new podcast hosted by Mini Timmaraju, president & CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All and one of the leading voices in the fight for abortion rights. If you’re into building a nationwide movement to protect and expand health justice, reproductive equity, and the power of people to control their own lives? This show is for you. As a listener, you’ll hear from leaders and changemakers who share wisdom from the front lines, stories of the real struggles people are facing every...

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early...

Upon getting her first tattoo at 40 years old, award-winning journalist Afua Hirsch embarked on a journey to reclaim her body from the colonial ideas of purity, adornment and ageing she - and many of us - absorbed while growing up. Informed by research from around the world, Afua will look at how individual and collective notions of what is beautiful are constructed or stripped away from us. Through personal anecdotes, interviews from beauty experts, practitioners and service users, she explores the global history of skin, hair and body modification rituals.

In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body--in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder.

Hier reden Lany und Marcel darüber, wie Veganismus mit den großen sozialen Bewegungen von heute zusammenhängt. Feminismus, Queer- und Tier-Rechte – am Ende geht's um Gerechtigkeit. Unterdrückung hat viele Gesichter. - Kulturelle Perspektiven auf Veganismus - Intersektionale Gerechtigkeit - Aktuelle politische Entwicklungen und ihre Auswirkungen auf Mensch, Tier und Umwelt - Dinge, auf die wir Bock haben ☺️ “My Body is a Tempeh” ist eine Einladung zum Umdenken. "https://discord.gg/DFSgNWVgxP"

Recover From Trauma. This podcast is dedicated to all of our inner worlds - may we remember, recall, and embody the freedom we were born with. Here, somatics meets soul. Trauma loosens its grip, nervous systems find safety, and secure intimacy becomes possible. I’m Danielle Bird, a Licensed Counselling Therapist & Somatic Attachment Trauma Recovery Coach. Having recovered from CPTSD and disorganized attachment, I now guide others to feel safe enough to connect again.Disclaimer: This is not therapy or a coaching session, and you take full responsibility for your own actions after listening. ...

The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melville’s lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our dead. Melville’s Over My Dead Body is a lively (pun intended) and wide-ranging history of cemeteries, places that have mirrored the passing eras in history but have also shaped it.

There’s already plenty of good medical journalism where you can find out about diagnosis, treatment, the latest research…the science of fighting cancer. But if you’re one of the millions diagnosed, or helping somebody live with cancer, or come to terms with dying of the disease, you already know: There’s not always good information, not always good advice, about how to think through the fact that you might be dying, or how to think about how your life has been changed, if you live. So I wrote one. Sufferers, survivors, care-givers may all hear the stories I tell in slightly different ...

Over My Dead Body is an anthology series about people who are pushed beyond their limits and do unspeakable things.Season 4: Gone Hunting - When Mike Williams vanishes on a hunting trip, the authorities presume he was eaten by alligators but one woman begins to suspect the true predators may lurk much closer to home. It sets her on a tireless crusade to uncover what really happened to Mike. A story about an obsessive love affair, a scandalous secret and a mother’s battle for justice.Season 3: Fox Lake - A small town cop is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015. He quickly became a ...

Felicity Hayward—curve model and founder of the online movement #SelfLoveBringsBeauty—is a leading voice for change within the UK's fashion industry. Rooted in her own personal journey navigating the fashion world, Felicity's debut book is a joyful and powerful guide to how you can take control of your own self-image and learn to love your true and authentic self.