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Dinah Washington and Max Roach

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Loti, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico

Photographer: Karl Moon Date: 1907 Negative Number: 146660B

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A man with Down Syndrome, 1890s (source)

#down syndrome #history #photography #portraits #people

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Portraits of an unidentified model, Japan, ca. 1930

by Denjiro Ide

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90% of women have one breast that is at least 15% to 20% larger than the other.

(source)

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Allure Disney Villains Bridal Collection

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Portrait of a woman standing by Louis Maeterlinck, 1878-1890s

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Black Girl Aesthetic: Ginger (I do not claim ownership of any of the above photos.)

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elogedelart.canalblog.com

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#what a beautiful graceful photo

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#hell yes

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Niki de Saint Phalle (French/American,

1930-2002)

Pregnant Nana, 1993

Carved and painted marble

31 inches high

National Museum of Women in the Arts

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Good mental health requires learning to listen to and respect our bodies. They give us absolutely vital information about both our physical health and our emotions. If we do not have a good connection to our bodies, we cannot adequately feel our feelings, which leads to mental health problems and also allows others to take advantage of us more easily (because we cannot feel our bodies’ natural emotional reactions to being maltreated).

You cannot learn to listen to and respect your body–or to have compassion on all the parts of yourself, including your body–if you are habitually insulting your body (looks, weight, athletic prowess, etc). So many of us feel like John Mulaney–like our bodies are just there to carry our heads from room to room. We think that our soul is separate from our bodies and that the body doesn’t matter. But it DOES. Your mind does not exist separately from your brain, and your brain does not exist separately from your body. Your physical manifestation–your body–is YOU. When you disrespect your body, you disrespect yourself.

If you want to learn to love yourself, you have to learn to love your body.

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