FAT / shame / what did you see first?
Top: Brooklyn Museum, from “White Shoes,” by Nona Faustine. In these self-portraits, the photographer, “at once vulnerable and commanding,” reclaims land where slavery was once literal.
Middle: Two people on a bench enjoying a summer day at a Vermont fair.
Below: Now, advertised in the subway and available online, semaglutides are challenging assumptions about obesity—disease-ifying what what once relegated to moral failure. Meds like Ozempic can cost $1,000 a month and must be taken for life or the weight loss is soon reversed.
And on the theme of buying off shame and guilt:
Actually ... this is the reality and this is what I look first .. unfortunately :(
What I first saw was body revealing clothes and find it repulsive on anyone. I am distressed at seeing the boobs and butts of the Kardashians and others. I live in Japan where one's body shape is clothed in a simple suit or kimono. For all the mumus I saw growing up, I saw a mumu, not
the body beneath it. Does this show my age and background?