Jenn Jackson

“It’s also about stripping away fantasies—like the fantasy that we live in a fair and equal meritocracy, and everyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and overcome their own oppression if they try hard enough. There are very real consequences to looking a certain way in our society, and we must acknowledge those consequences, both as a means to understanding and healing our own individual body image issues, and as a means to building a more equitable and just society so that future generations don’t have to fight the same battles.”
― Jessi Kneeland, Body Neutral: A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Body Image Issues

“despite knowing
they won’t be here for long
they still choose to live
their brightest lives

- sunflowers”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“Idefine body neutrality as the practice of approaching your body through a clear, unbiased, and impartial lens, attempting to see and deal only with what’s objectively true in the moment, without moral judgment, interpretation, projection, added meaning, or undue significance.”
― Jessi Kneeland, Body Neutral: A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Body Image Issues

“It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo