Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.
What does it mean to love yourself it a world that continually politicizes and objectifies your body? How can you love yourself when your very body is what puts you in danger? How can as women own feminist politics and find beauty from within? These are all the questions that came to my mind as I read this week's articles and considered the lecture given by Dr. Garcia. Particularly in relation to the article "Clothes and Daggers" by Rafia Zacharia I found myself thinking about Dr. Garcia's point about the objectification of others for personal gain. The efforts of the EIC to save Indian women from Sati had very little to do with the women themselves, due to the ways Indian women were treated by the …show more content…
While it is amazing that so many people are championing the efforts to get women of all sizes into the beauty and fashion industry, we see less of a push (or none at all) for women of different races or women who have disabilities to be equally represented. “You’re Short, Besides!”, by Sucheng Chan highlights how physical disabilities affect the way society and turn individuals, think of you as 'beautiful'. Chan states that many people in the USA do not know how to interact appropriately around people with physical disabilities, who are unnecessarily treated like children despite being adults. This lack of understanding leads to the unjust removal of sexuality from disabled people. Roberta Galler analyzes this idea in “The Myth of the Perfect Body” as well. Due to the way we politicize mental and physical disabilities people who live this experience become elements of a larger political entity or group instead of individuals who should be treated as people with specific needs, and wants. Chan spoke to this when she said that after all she had done she was still being asked to write about her experience as a disabled Asian- American woman. Galler also wrote about this in reference to the ways disabled women are socialized as women due to their gender and then not seen as women due to their disability. This dynamic highlights how body politics is another intersection form of oppression for
What does it mean to love yourself it a world that continually politicizes and objectifies your body? How can you love yourself when your very body is what puts you in danger? How can as women own feminist politics and find beauty from within? These are all the questions that came to my mind as I read this week's articles and considered the lecture given by Dr. Garcia. Particularly in relation to the article "Clothes and Daggers" by Rafia Zacharia I found myself thinking about Dr. Garcia's point about the objectification of others for personal gain. The efforts of the EIC to save Indian women from Sati had very little to do with the women themselves, due to the ways Indian women were treated by the …show more content…
While it is amazing that so many people are championing the efforts to get women of all sizes into the beauty and fashion industry, we see less of a push (or none at all) for women of different races or women who have disabilities to be equally represented. “You’re Short, Besides!”, by Sucheng Chan highlights how physical disabilities affect the way society and turn individuals, think of you as 'beautiful'. Chan states that many people in the USA do not know how to interact appropriately around people with physical disabilities, who are unnecessarily treated like children despite being adults. This lack of understanding leads to the unjust removal of sexuality from disabled people. Roberta Galler analyzes this idea in “The Myth of the Perfect Body” as well. Due to the way we politicize mental and physical disabilities people who live this experience become elements of a larger political entity or group instead of individuals who should be treated as people with specific needs, and wants. Chan spoke to this when she said that after all she had done she was still being asked to write about her experience as a disabled Asian- American woman. Galler also wrote about this in reference to the ways disabled women are socialized as women due to their gender and then not seen as women due to their disability. This dynamic highlights how body politics is another intersection form of oppression for