Body Politics

This is from this weeks batch of Postsecrets – an email somebody sent in relation to a funeral secret.  For me, fat is not a bad word.  It has no negative meaning to me any longer.  I remember a time when I could have been the person in this email and I won’t ever go [...]

On the National Geographic website I watched a video about a subject that fits in with Body Politics; bone stretching.  Apparently in China you will have a hard time being successful and even dating if you aren’t tall enough.  The video shows a bone stretching clinic and some patients.  It can take a year to [...]