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From the Bellies Are
Beautiful Website
Bellies get a bad rap. You see them floating
headless on news channels with concerned voiceovers calling attention to
the "Obesity Epidemic." You see them, pinched, wrapped in measuring
tape, or peeking out of pants 3 sizes too large, embossed with diet
messaging on billboards and glossy magazines. Someone's always trying to
flatten them, or deprive them, or suck them in, hide them, minimize
them. We say -- drop your pants, hike up your shirt, and tell your belly
you love it! Grip your love handles and shake 'em like you're happy to
meet them! Tell your belly it's beautiful! Bump bellies with others!
Take pictures of your bellies and hang them up in your house! Take
pictures of your bellies and send them to us so other people can see how
beautiful your belly is! So other people who may not like their bellies
can see how many different kinds of bellies there *really* are in the
world, and how their belly is just another beautiful belly in the broad
belly spectrum.
Info
Bellies are Beautiful is a private project by
Stacy Bias,
dedicated to positive body image for all people! I know that bellies
aren't the only focus of body hatred, but I do think they get more than
their fair share of targeting. Bellies Are Beautiful is a celebrative,
but not exploitative, collection of user-submitted bellies of all sizes,
shapes, colors and genders!
I am sex-positive as an organizer, but prefer to take a
non-sexualizing lens to this project, so please keep your submissions in
the PG-13 category so folks of all ages can enjoy the belly love!
Submissions posted to BelliesAreBeautiful.com are done anonymously.
If you want to include your face, I welcome this. If you don't, that's
fine, too! My aim is to show that beauty comes in MANY forms -- every
form, even. That everyBODY is beautiful in its own way!
www.belliesarebeautiful.com
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