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Expressed in an essay published in XO Jane this week, the article has angered many women of color and those who practice yoga, who call the story racist, discriminatory against larger women and further fueling the lack of diversity in yoga.
An unexpected part in the musical “Gypsy” triggered performance artist Stephanie Howell’s love of her body and shaped her career, she says in this excerpt of her essay in the anthology “Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction.”
Her most daring and transgressive act occurred on the elliptical machine and helped showcase her newfound confidence, writes Emily Anderson in this essay in the anthology “Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion.”