Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference

Your body is who you are. We will only build a just society by rejecting fear of our bodies.



Western culture hates the fact that we have bodies-from evangelical culture, which insists "you are a soul and have a body," to wellness culture that turns your control over your body into a moral test, to transphobic activism that insists any step taken to change one's body is an immoral act, to the treatment of disabled bodies in a profoundly ableist culture. Fear has led cisgender, white, and able...