We all will be experiencing all the stations but my main one is about body image.
I wanted to challenge myself as a person but make someone think differently. That we shouldn’t judge our bodies, our another person’s body. We need to notice that body image is a social construct.
I myself have always struggled with body image, I suffer from bulimia and often self harm my body, but I wonder what makes me that way? I remember in high school being bullied for my weight, my hair, the way my legs are shaped and even for my disabilities such ridiculous things but it hurt me.
I know it is not only me, this is incredibly common.
“50-88% of adolescent girls feel negatively about their body shape or size.
49% of teenage girls say they know someone with an eating disorder.
Only 33% of girls say they are at the “right weight for their body”, while 58% want to lose
weight. Just 9% want to gain weight.
Females are much more likely than males to think their current size is too large (66% vs. 21%).
Over one-third of males think their current size is too small, while only 10% of women consider
their size too small.”
This is the world we grow up in, this is so common nowadays in society we don’t even think about it, with models too thin, where you have to be a muscular man and if you’re imperfect well then you aren’t worth thinking about.
I want my audience to go away with the feeling of self worth, to understand that I was not judging their body, that I found their body beautiful, not in a sexual way but to show they are beautiful.
I plan to talk and show the parts of my body, I hate or love or merely want to comment on and I will encourage them to do the same.
I want to show our bodies no matter what they look like are nothing to be ashamed of, not ugly, or wrong in any way.
This may be tough for the audience and I understand that as it will be hard for me too but I hope at least some will decide to do it and feel better about themselves afterwards. I want them to not need to hide their bodies, to be comforted in the fact they are beautiful.
To be as a small child again who doesn’t care what their body looks like.
[ONLINE] Available at: http://www.epi.umn.edu/let/pubs/img/adol_ch13.pdf. [Accessed 24 November 2013].