With award-winning photographer Substantia Jones of The Adipositivity Project, Bustle is launching A Body Project. A Body Project aims to shed light on the reality that "body positivity" is not a button that, once pressed, will free an individual…

In the fall of 2015, the murder of 7-year-old Adrian Jones shocked the nation. His scattered remains had been discovered in a pig pen near the Kansas City, Kansas, home that his family were renting. His father, Michael Jones, and stepmother, Heather Jones, had fed his remains to pigs in an attempt to conceal his prolonged abuse and murder.

Come dice il titolo: ancora qualche opera di Jeffrey (Catherine) Jones, in ricordo di queesto grande artista. Alcuni siti e blog hanno pubbliicato suoi dipinti allo scopo di spiegarne la “poetica anatomica” e le tecniche. Come l’ispirazione in generale, sono debitori delle opere di Maestri antichi del pennello e di quelle di altri più recenti… Leggi tutto »ANCORA SU JEFFREY CATHERINE JONES

For some people, maintaining a positive body image can be a lifelong challenge. In a series of complex paintings called Skin, 19-year-old photographer

Charlie, Jones Beach, 1976. Teenager: that tricksy time when you’re no longer a child but not quite yet the adult. When hormones light fires and the good ole triumvirate of sex ‘n’ drugs ‘n’ rock’n'roll drop by to shake everything up. Joseph Szabo was teaching a bunch of such teenagers at Malverne High School, Long Island in 1972. Szabo was 28-years old—ancient to most teenagers—and was finding it a hell of a difficult to connect with his young charges. He had all but given up trying when he decided to start taking photographs of the kids in his class. This then led to his photographing all the kids in the school. Then all the kids in the neighborhood. He didn’t discriminate. He just wanted to document every kind of student he could find and let his photographs tell their story. The kids responded to Szabo’s interest. They soon let him follow them down to the beach, or out to their hangouts and homes after school. Szabo’s pictures moved from posed portrait against wall or on beach to youths caught unawares like nobody was watching. These kids lived in a world they described as “doing...

Probabilmente la madre di Annie Jones, come qualsiasi donna di ogni epoca e di qualsiasi latitudine, attendeva con ansia la nascita del bimbo/a (all’epoca non si poteva sapere il sesso del nascituro) che portava in grembo, per scoprire che bel faccino avesse. Magari si augurava che assomigliasse al padre, oppure a se stessa, ma certo non si aspettava di trovarsi tra le braccia, quel 14 luglio 1865, una neonata che fece inorridire sia lei sia il marito: il mento della bambina era ricoperto da una fine peluria, che assomigliava tanto ad una barba “precoce”. Sotto, il video racconto dell’articolo sul canale Youtube di Vanilla Magazine: Ed infatti Annie Jones divenne una delle donne barbute più conosciute al mondo, in un’epoca in cui gli spettacoli con i cosiddetti fenomeni da baraccone erano un’attrazione irresistibile per ogni genere di pubblico. Dopo i primi tempi di sbigottimento, i genitori di Annie capirono che la malattia della figlia, probabilmente un caso di irsutismo, avrebbe se non altro portato un insperato benessere economico alla famiglia. Ad appena nove mesi la piccola, ribattezzata “bimba Esaù” (il nipote di Abramo che secondo la Bibbia nacque già estremamente peloso), divenne un’attrazione dello strabiliante Circo Barnum, che viaggiava attraverso gli Stati Uniti con quello che venne battezzato “Il più grande spettacolo del mondo”. Dopo poche “esibizioni”, Barnum offrì alla famiglia una somma esorbitante per l’epoca: 150 dollari alla settimana con un contratto di tre anni. La madre di Annie si trasferì con la figlia a New York, per rimanere costantemente al suo fianco e accompagnarla durante i tour del circo. Durante la prima stagione di spettacoli, la signora Jones fu costretta a tornare in Virginia, dove continuava a risiedere il marito, per improvvisi problemi familiari. La bambina fu affidata ad una balia, scelta da Barnum in persona, che non risultò però troppo attenta: Annie fu rapita da un frenologo che voleva trarne un vantaggio personale, mettendola in mostra in fiere, chiese e altri luoghi pubblici. La bambina fu presto ritrovata e riconsegnata alla madre, che non la lasciò mai più in mani estranee. L’episodio, tuttavia, potrebbe essere stata solo una montatura pubblicitaria, cosa non insolita per Barnum. Durante la sua carriera, durata diversi anni, Annie fu chiamata in modi diversi, che cambiarono con l’età: inizialmente era la “bimba Esaù”, poi divenne la “ragazza barbuta” ed infine la “signora barbuta”. Attorno ai cinque anni Annie aveva la barba e le basette che coprivano parte del volto, mentre crescendo anche i capelli divennero parte integrante dello strano fascino esercitato dalla ragazza, arrivando a misurare quasi due metri di lunghezza, un caso simile a quello delle sorelle Sutherland. Non accontentandosi di essere semplicemente “messa in mostra”, Annie coltivò anche la passione per la musica, esibendosi in pubblico, e molti si ricordavano di lei per i suoi modi gentili. Nonostante l’aspetto abbastanza mascolino e una vita piuttosto breve, Annie ebbe due mariti: a 16 anni sposò Richard Elliot, un musicista che suonava nel circo. Dopo quindici anni di matrimonio, decise di divorziare per sposare un amico d’infanzia, William Donovan, musicista anche lui, con il quale si esibì in giro per l’Europa, senza intermediari. Purtroppo il matrimonio durò poco, perché lo sposo morì improvvisamente. Annie fu costretta a tornare tra i freaks del Barnum, dei quali divenne anche la portavoce, durante una campagna di sensibilizzazione che aveva lo scopo di abolire proprio quel termine ritenuto offensivo. Nel 1902, ad appena 37 anni, Annie morì di tubercolosi. E’ rimasta la più famosa donna barbuta della propria epoca e probabilmente la più famosa della storia.

The ’70s may have been many things, but boring sure wasn’t one of them. Check out 70 of the most unforgettable images of the decade.

Lloyd Jones told investigators he took Angela Allen to the Arkansas river. They began to make out, he told investigators, but after she told him her age, he hit her making her fall back into the water.

The ùrì body art of a lady who may be from Isuochi (as the album was labelled) [cropped]. Photographed by G. I. Jones, 1930s.

If you appreciate The Vagina Monologues, then you will really love its mild-mannered sister, The Good Body by Eve Ensler. Though I have not read the script for the Monologues, I suspect the two plays are written in a very similar way. With little to no stage cues, The Good Body reads like a book written in the first person, each chapter a new voice. In this one, Eve herself is a character, interacting with the other characters and soliloquizing between each woman's chapter, making it a window into the author's personal journey towards tummy acceptance. The Good Body is a series of monologues and dialogues that takes on the epidemic of shattered body image and addresses issues with the entire female body instead of one particular part. Ensler uses real life conversations she's had with women around the world about their bodies as inspiration for the various characters in the play, which range from a young teen at fat camp to an old Indian woman at the gym on the treadmill in her sari. Most of the characters channel their hate at a particular part of themselves, just as Ensler obsesses negatively over her "post-40s" stomach. A few of the characters, however, love their bodies exactly as they are and inspire Eve to accept her body as a sacred, hard-working source of life. In The Good Body, Ensler accomplishes the same stunning sense of sisterhood The Vagina Monologues does by reminding women that most of us have the same insecurities about appearance. Instead of picking on ourselves and each other, though, we should love and accept the female body in all forms. Ensler makes us strong in our sameness. In the introduction, Ensler mentions that most women spend more time thinking about their own bodies than almost any political or social issue. The Good Body urges women to make peace with their bodies so that we can turn our thoughts to more important matters. What could we achieve if we gave up the battle between our minds and our bodies and put our energies into other fights? I'm thinking about reading Eve Ensler's memoir In the Body of the World next. Have any of you read any of her works, seen her plays, or watched her TED talks? What do you think of Eve? I'm finding her to be a pretty inspiring lady. :)

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