Body Works considers the different ways we maintain and modify our bodies for the sake of either living up to or rejecting cultural standards. Which ways are visible, which are accessible, or necessary, or safe?
Conditioner considers women's sense of alienation from their bodies, caused by gender norms and beauty ideals, and the ways that the wellness and skincare industries either alleviate or exacerbate that alienation.
The dissection of a YA nonfiction book chapter of the same title (The Care of Pearls) results in this collaged photography and poetry zine. The original text is reconfigured to reveal how the language of the directions for taking care of pearls parallels the confounding messaging women receive on how to take care of themselves.
Text extracted from 'To the man who shouted "I like pork fried rice"' & 'Orientalism (part II)': poems by Franny Choi, Floating, brilliant, gone, 2014. Martha Stewart's pork fried rice recipe.
A zine on the history of poisonous products women used as makeup and their side effects. Part of a set of five zines about items that have influenced women's health.
This essay was originally commissioned by the Walker Art Center's digital magazine, WALKER READER, under the title 'Let's Talk About Body Reproduction' in July of 2018. Available to view online atwlkr.art/npyper
Going to the doctor when you're fat can be an overwhelmingly terrible experience. Just the phrase 'hop on the scale for me' can cause anxiety, even in people who don't identify as fat or don't have an above-average BMI. These are some of the strategies I've learned to self-advocate over the years.
A "queer, fat, white, cis femme with invisible disabilities," shares her experiences with discrimination. She mentions strangers mistaking her as pregnant, feeling uncomfortable in bathroom stalls and church pews, eating in public, using the subway system, and accessibility for fat people.
