Body Image and Disability

Nadia and Ella talk to NSR station manager and Courier sub-editor Dom Lee to discuss how body image interacts with masculinity. They talk incels, Jordamn Peterson, the male gaze and the way that locker room talk" can negatively affect men just as it can other genders.

Nadia and Ella speak to Daniel Jones, a PHD student with Tourette’s syndrome, to discuss how this disability interacts with his body image. The discussion centres around how Tourette’s can affect one’s sense of control, how he manages tics in a world of face masks and social distancing and the wider representation of disability within the body positivity movement.

Ella and Nadia delve in to the history of the Body Positivity movement, from women against tight corsets in the Victorian Reform movement to fat liberation protests in the 60s, all the way up to the social media movement we know today. They speak about their own journeys with body image and introduce some of the questions the campaign seeks to explore in future episodes!