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Question

What is YOUR embodied experience?

Some sparks to get you thinking:

What does your body "know" that other bodies may not know? What do others *think* they know about your body?

What about your body is most political, public, or fraught?

Is your body valued? Is it safe? What is it a source of? (Pride, health, fear, power, beauty, radicalized politics, ignorance, experience, birth, genetics, divinity, illness...) Compared to what other kinds of bodies?

What are the forces that most challenge and most shape how you experience living in your body? (These may be social, personal and intimate, or public. They may be familial or patriarchal, about race or ability or class or ability or age...)

Also remember-- I am not a psychologist, and I am a mandated reporter (so I must report any evidence of sexual harassment or violence to the school's Title IV counselor). This essay is absolutely a place for you to be open, vulnerable, and truthful-- but also to take a step back, and to look at how your relationship with your body is socially determined. It is a place to think about your experience living in your body, for your body is both incredibly personal and also shaped by social forces.