

Body Language
Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves
Author: Nicole Chung, Matt Ortile
Narrator: Sean Crisden, Catherine Ho, Adi Cabral, Angela Juarez
Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 11/22/2022
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections, Self-help, Eating Disorders & Body Image
Synopsis
Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in Body Language affirm and challenge the personal and political conversations around human bodies from the perspectives of thirty writers diverse in race, age, gender, size, sexuality, health, ability, geography, and class—a brilliant group probing and speaking their own truths about their bodies and identities, refusing to submit to others' expectations about how their bodies should look, function, and behave.
Covering a wide range of experiences—from art modeling as a Black woman to nostalgia for a brutalizing high school sport, from the frightening upheaval of cancer diagnoses to the small beauties of funeral sex—this collection is intelligent, sensitive, and unflinchingly candid. Through the power of personal narratives, as told by writers at all stages of their careers, Body Language reflects the many ways in which we understand and inhabit our bodies.