05/29/2020
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Our approach to body positivity and body image activism sounds different than a lot of “love your body” stuff out there because we are trying to separate peoples’ worth from their appearance completely. Not just expanding who gets to feel beautiful, but taking beauty off the pedestal that we shouldn’t be required to stand on so we can be looked at in the first place!😅Our messaging is founded on our Ph.D. research that really truly helps people see themselves as more than bodies to be decorative, evaluated, used, and ashamed of. Straight from our TEDx talk:
💜”Girls and women aren’t only suffering because of the unattainable ways beauty is being defined, they’re suffering because they are being *defined by beauty.* They are bodies first and people second. So, rather than working to make sure more women’s bodies are viewed as valuable, we are working to make sure women are valued as more than bodies to view. Our work is founded on the premise that positive body image isn’t believing your body looks good; it is believing your body is good, regardless of how it looks.”
💗After 11 (!!) years of running Beauty Redefined, we hope our words are starting to sound second-nature, because we know we still sound *bizarre* to lots of others who can’t imagine the best outcome for women and girls could be anything short of looking and feeling beautiful. Please know the problem is NOT your body. The problem is believing you are just a body. It’s like our bodies aren’t part of us, but ALL of us. When we fight back by alleviating the shame surrounding certain body types, we’re only fighting a *symptom* of the problem, not the root cause. We’re here to remind you women are MORE than bodies, and it’s time to SEE more and BE more. It’s time to heal our relationships with our bodies so we can show up in a world that is desperate for us to lead, do, be & speak up.👊🏽
✖️ If you haven’t seen our TEDx talk, DO IT! Search Lindsay Kite TEDx on YouTube or linked in our bio. And if you want to work on rising with resilience in an objectifying world