Show Notes
From birth, our bodies are initiated into a complex web of politics, sexuality, hierarchies and trends.
Today, we feature stories about people’s relationships with their form. People can have ever changing relationships with their bodies, some want to be seen while others are simply wanting to be ignored.
Adrain, a professional life model, a job which see’s him posing naked in front of multiple people every day reflects on his career after 25 years in the biz.
Gwyneth vents about the systemic problems of unrealistic beauty standards, and how they took hold of her relationship with her body and subsequently her life.
Su talks about how she’s learnt to deal with strangers' relentless comments about her body.
After years of holding on to thinning hair, Leo made the Bold choice to shave it all off. Life was never the same again.
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