Being Body Conscious

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🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When you look at your body in the mirror, do you love what you see? Do you pick out the things you don’t like? Maybe you’ve heard of body positivity. But what if we just felt neutral about our bodies? In this episode, we talk about our bodies — how we move through the world in these fleshy vessels, how it feels to exist in our bodies in a world that asks so much from them. How do we live full and embodied lives?

Original Air Date: September 30, 2023

Interviews In This Hour:
Finding Peace in Neutrality: Jessi Kneeland on Rethinking Body Positivity — The Body Speaks: Rae Johnson on Reconnecting with Ourselves to Transform Society — Multiple Identities, One Body: Sami Schalk Discusses Black Disability Politics

Guests:
Jessi Kneeland, Rae Johnson, Sami Schalk

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0:00.0	Hey friends, it's Anne.
0:05.5	And before we get started, I want you to pause for just a second and take a look at your body.
0:12.4	What's the first thing you notice about it?
0:15.6	Size, shape, skin tone, gender, physical ability?
0:27.6	Whether we're aware of it or not, most of us live with a certain set of judgments about our physical form, and those judgments are shaped by outside forces, like history, culture, politics, the media.
0:34.6	But what if the first thing you noticed about your body
0:37.6	wasn't what it looks like from the outside,
0:41.2	but how it feels on the inside?
0:45.0	What would that change?
0:47.2	Today, onto the best of our knowledge, being body conscious.
1:02.3	Wisconsin Public Radio. Yeah. conscious. It's to the best of our knowledge.
1:03.9	I'm And Strange Champs.
1:05.8	In case you forgot, you live in a body.
1:09.7	You were born into the world in this vessel made of skin and hair.
1:15.1	And then somewhere along the way, you became conscious of it, maybe even self-conscious.
1:21.5	Everyone has their own sort of body image journey. Can you walk me through your journey?
1:28.3	Yeah.
1:29.2	So I would say that I started objectifying myself very young.
1:36.6	Stay beautiful.
1:37.5	This is hair color magic.
1:41.0	This is Jesse Neeland, author of Body Neutral.
1:49.1	Other people were objectifying me as soon as I hit puberty.
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