Rule #1: Surround Your Self With Images that Affirm (Y)our Beauty

Desiring Ourselves: Experimental short film, engaging the Black Body Archive (by Mireille Miller-Young, UC Santa Barbara)....

The Image is Mightier than the Sword.

Look around you.
What do you see? Or more importantly, what do you NOT see?
No matter where you, chances are, it's pretty difficult to find images that affirm (y)our beauty.
Is this a mistake?
An oversight?

Chances are what you see is not a reflection of (y)our soul. Not being able to see your Self, or recognize a part of your Self in the media or in your immediate surroundings is a subtle sort of abuse, a cultural amputation.

It is important that we recognize ourselves in the books we read, the magazines we peruse, the movies we watch.

A healthy dose of diverse representation is but one of the things our world needs.

The Remedy: Surround yourselves with images that remind you of who you are, who we are at our best. Include images that tap into the very best of our successes.