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Category Archives: Mental Health
Loving my body even as I have to change it
When I was a small child, I was very skinny. This is me, aged six. Unfortunately for me, I come from a family of big women on my mother’s side, so genetics were against me, and when I was about … Continue reading
Posted in Body Image, Disability, fibromyalgia, Health, Mental Health, My Life, Uncategorized
Tagged body image, diabetes, dieting, exercise, fibromyalgia, food, mental-health, weight
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Living with Fibromyalgia
In May 2019, which was International Fibromyalgia Awareness Month, I did a series of posts on my Facebook page, one for each day. In each one, I outlined a negative effect or symptom of this chronic illness and a positive … Continue reading
Frida Kahlo and the politics of disability
Recently, I visited the “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up” exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This exhibition comes as a result of a small treasure trove of Frida’s belongings and photographs being opened to the public … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Body Image, Disability, Health, LGBT, Mental Health, My Life
Tagged art, CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic illness, Disability, fibromyalgia, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, ME, Mexico, myalgic encephalomyelitis, society, stigma, V&A, Victoria and Albert Museum, visibility
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“The boobs are dead, long live the boobs!”
The above quote appears in this article on the Guardian website, in a short piece written by well-known writer and radical feminist, Bidisha. This is in response to The Sun quietly deciding to cover up its famous “page 3 girl” with … Continue reading
Posted in Body Image, Feminism, Media, Mental Health, Politics
Tagged anorexia, Bidisha, boobs, bulimia, culture, everyday sexism, feminism, objectification, page 3, page three, society, The Guardian, The Sun, women
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An unexpected meeting
A few weeks ago, I was in the town centre for the Farmer’s Market. I was dressed in my full morris dancing band kit and handing out flyers for our upcoming workshop. I knew I looked pretty unusual, and that … Continue reading
Posted in Disability, Health, Mental Health, My Life, Uncategorized
Tagged cafe, changing expectations, health, meeting, mental-health, morris, morris dancing, people, poem, poetry, Stroud Farmer's Market, Terry, unexpected, United Kingdom
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Liz Terry 