Latinxs Exploring Our Varied Relationships With Our Bodies & Creating Homes Within Ourselves
R29 Somos is rewriting Latinx narratives and finding freedom and joy in our nuances. With Cuerpo, we're exploring our varied relationships with our bodies, unlearning colonial beauty standards and rigid gender identities, and creating homes within ourselves. Check out the stories below and watch our Dear Cuerpo video letter series on Instagram. |
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| The Latina beauty standard favors whiteness and litheness but also expects physical attributes that are often inconsistent with slim frames, and it can have devastating impacts. |
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| As a nonbinary trans Latinx and someone who was formerly undocumented, I am learning that home is within me. |
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| Black Latinas are seen as sexual adventures and nothing more, but I claim my desirability for myself. |
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| For me, dieting was about deeply craving a sense of belonging in the broader white culture of the United States. It was a way to adopt white beauty ideals by starving my brown body. |
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| By Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez |
I have a particular set of experiences from growing up looking like my Indigenous ancestors in a culture that wants to forget who our countries belonged to before our colonizers came. |
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| At least 30 million people in the U.S. will have an ED in their lifetime. Of them, 80% never receive treatment. Black and Latinx people have EDs and body image concerns at rates comparable to or greater than non-Latinx whites, but they are less likely to obtain treatment. |
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| Over time, I have learned to see myself and love myself. I am proud of who I am and what I look like. I know that my disability hasn't taken away my beauty or my sexiness. |
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