Eating Disorders: Shrinking Yourself into Submission
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*TRIGGER WARNING – EATING DISORDERS* It’s time to acknowledge how shackled all women are by diet culture, and how this exists as a form of oppression that operates on an extremely dangerous level. Did your mother make an offhand comment about her shrinking appetite that manifested its way onto you? We thought so. Unsurprisingly, such experiences make it incredibly easy to pass our awful self-image from one person to another and build up a vicious whirlpool of self-hatred. With the anecdotal and valuable insight of our instagram followers, we tackle many branches of this spiral and shed light on a topic, that systems like patriarchy, would prefer to keep under wraps...
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Laurie Penny’s essay – Meat market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism
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https://www.verywellmind.com/male-eating-disorders-4140606
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