The new year should be a time for positivity and celebration, but too often that gets lost in negative messaging designed to make you feel like a load of crap.
"Diet! Eat less! Join a gym! Survive on juice/tea/kale alone!" Corporations and media alike seem determined to spread self-hate disguised as discipline, ambition and health-consciousness. It's all about the New You. Never mind the perfectly good old you.
Tired of the ubiquitous body-shaming that rears its ugly head each January, we decided to change the conversation and create the Love Your Body Issue. It features an inspiring and diverse mix of Torontonians willing to bare (almost) all for the camera to promote body positivity. In these pages you'll find stories of tragedy, growth, transformation and acceptance alongside compelling photos of brave subjects representing an array of shapes, sizes, abilities, orientations, genders and colours.
On the surface, 2015 seemed like a pretty good year for diversity. Jourdan Dunn became the first model of colour to cover Vogue UK in 12 years. Beauty and fashion brands tapped older women like Joan Didion, Joni Mitchell and Iris Apfel to star in ad campaigns. Caitlyn Jenner debuted on the cover of Vanity Fair, accepted Glamour's Woman Of The Year Award and the ESPY Arthur Ashe Courage Award. The United States Supreme Court ruled states must allow same-sex marriage.
Genderless dressing exploded on the scene, and major brands did away with separate male and female styles. The ROM's exhibition of local designer Izzy Camilleri's IZ Adaptive line for people in wheelchairs was honoured by the prestigious Costume Society of America.
However, The Fashion Spot's diversity report still calls out fall 2015's runways as 80 per cent white and spring 2016's as 77.6 per cent white. Every single actress on the Hollywood Reporter's Roundtable cover was white, a fact the mag justified by saying there were "no minority actresses in genuine contention for an Oscar this year."
Kylie Jenner inexplicably posed on the cover of Interview Magazine in a gold-plated wheelchair. Pope Francis compared trans people to nuclear weapons, and trans people are still being murdered and assaulted at historic rates. Let's not even delve into the wacko racist world of Donald Trump and his supporters.
Obviously, we still have a lot of work to do. Perhaps instead of resolving to improve our bodies in 2016, we should resolve to change our attitudes when it comes to diversity.
Photos by Tanja-Tiziana
Source:- https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/the-2016-body-issue/love-your-body/
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