Winter 2023 : Bodies

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Winter 2023

Bodies

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From the Editors

The “Bodies” Issue

In her first issue as YES! Magazine’s Executive Editor, Evette Dionne invites us to consider what we must shift within ourselves to make space for true equity.

Transforming Ourselves to Transform the World

Five activists share how shifting their relationships with their own bodies helped them build community.

Nicole Froio

Korean women divers, known as haenyeo, gear up with chest weights (to aid diving), an L-shaped weeding hoe, and a net attached to a flotation device. A wetsuit, goggles, and gloves allow haenyeo divers to stay in the water for between five and six hours, even during the wintertime. Two haenyeo are in central focus in the frame, with a black-haired woman helping a white-haired woman put on gloves.

The Haenyeo and the Sea: Diving As Community-Led Resistance

This matriarchal Korean society overcomes crises united as a single body.

Kyubin Kim

The Black Mothering Body, Fortified

In creating new life, Black mothers must overcome medical malpractice and social unsafety together.

Gloria Alamrew

La Lucha Sigue: Lessons From Latin America’s Abortion Victories

Abortion advocates reeling from the end of Roe v. Wade can look to Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina for perspective, strategy, and hope.

Tina Vasquez

La Lucha Sigue: Lecciones de Las Victorias de Las Mujeres Latinoamericanas Por el Derecho al Aborto

Defensoras del aborto, desanimadas por la anulación de la sentencia en el caso “Roe vs. Wade”, que establecía el derecho constitucional al aborto, pueden dirigir sus miradas hacia México, Colombia y Argentina para obtener perspectiva, redefinir estrategias y recobrar esperanzas.

Tina Vasquez

Ramping Up Fashion’s Accessible Future

The fashion industry is designing adaptable clothing for disabled people, but is that enough to undo the industry’s ableism?

Christopher Reardon

Terra Affirma: Chaos Creates

Sarah Gilman

Queering the Good Death

When it comes to protecting chosen family, LGBTQ couples face unique struggles.

Sara Harrison

Solutions We Love

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An illustration shows an Indigenous person with two long black braids, seated wearing a tan robe and triangular hat. The person's arm is raised, holding a spoon as water circles around them, containing elements of a bone broth soup. In front of the person is a cedar bentwood box, and two bowl, one containing herbs, another containing meat and bones. To their left is a fire pit, and a grey, snow-capped mountain with a lake at its base is visible in the distance.

Indigenous Foodways

Stir It Up: Bone Broth From the Earth

Valerie Segrest

A photo illustration in the shape of a human head shows red theatre curtains, parted to show three folding chairs and two microphones on a stage.

Commentary

Healing Trauma Through Drama

Therapeutic drama therapy opens the door to healing through performance.

Blair Glaser

Just the Facts

The “Obesity Crisis” Is a Fatphobic Myth

Fatness is treated as a moral failure, but the facts show it is all systemic.

Evette Dionne

People We Love

Ink Outside the Lines

Although tattoo art has origins in communities of color, today it is largely a white-dominated field in the U.S. Three tattoo artists of color share their views of the changing field.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Culture Shift

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An illustration shows an older same-sex couple, both of whom are people of color, seated on a park bench. One partner wears a blue shirt and denim jacket, and has an arm draped over the shoulder of their partner, who wears a white patterned sweater.

Books+Film+Music

Forever Queer

Jamal Jordan embraces the unique and profound beauty of aging LGBTQ couples.

Jonathan P. Higgins

An illustration shows four Indian faces wearing headscarves of red, orange, pink, and yellow. The faces are set against a green pyramid that goes from light to dark, mirroring the caste pyramid infographic displayed in the article.

Books+Film+Music

Confronting Caste

A Dalit American leader offers a profound meditation on the violence of caste apartheid, pathways to abolition, and collective healing.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Hollywood Desonier, left, played by Omar J. Dorsey, sits on a porch next to on-screen squeeze Violet Bordelon (“Aunt Vi”), played by Tina Lifford, in Queen Sugar. Aunt Vi's is smiling as her hand cradles Hollywood's face.

Books+Film+Music

All the Sexy Older Ladies

From “Hacks” to “Queen Sugar,” pop culture begins spotlighting the sexuality of women over 50.

Sari Botton

Books+Film+Music

Shortchanging Harriet

From Doodle to a future $20 bill, Harriet Tubman is a cultural icon. But comforting images don’t show the disabled Black woman who was not only a guide, but a freedom fighter.

Treva B. Lindsey

Inspiration: Janet Mock

Keith Henry Brown

Reflections

YES! Editors

Crossword

The YES! Crossword: Body Language

Patrick Blindauer

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Winter 2023 : Bodies

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Bodies

In Depth

From the Editors

The “Bodies” Issue

Five activists share how shifting their relationships with their own bodies helped them build community.

This matriarchal Korean society overcomes crises united as a single body.

In creating new life, Black mothers must overcome medical malpractice and social unsafety together.

Abortion advocates reeling from the end of Roe v. Wade can look to Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina for perspective, strategy, and hope.

Defensoras del aborto, desanimadas por la anulación de la sentencia en el caso “Roe vs. Wade”, que establecía el derecho constitucional al aborto, pueden dirigir sus miradas hacia México, Colombia y Argentina para obtener perspectiva, redefinir estrategias y recobrar esperanzas.

The fashion industry is designing adaptable clothing for disabled people, but is that enough to undo the industry’s ableism?

When it comes to protecting chosen family, LGBTQ couples face unique struggles.

Solutions We Love

Therapeutic drama therapy opens the door to healing through performance.

Fatness is treated as a moral failure, but the facts show it is all systemic.

Although tattoo art has origins in communities of color, today it is largely a white-dominated field in the U.S. Three tattoo artists of color share their views of the changing field.

Culture Shift

Jamal Jordan embraces the unique and profound beauty of aging LGBTQ couples.

A Dalit American leader offers a profound meditation on the violence of caste apartheid, pathways to abolition, and collective healing.

From “Hacks” to “Queen Sugar,” pop culture begins spotlighting the sexuality of women over 50.

From Doodle to a future $20 bill, Harriet Tubman is a cultural icon. But comforting images don’t show the disabled Black woman who was not only a guide, but a freedom fighter.

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