Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves

"The collected essays in Body Language reckon with the many ways we do and do not occupy the silly, unruly, beautiful, strong, disabled, uncomfortable, painful, joyful fleshiness of our humanity. With meditations on race, weight, ability and more, these writers give voice to the complexity of having a body in all its multifaceted needs, desires and disconnects. As a person who dwells in a genetically disordered and chronically pained body, I tend to feel entirely separate from it, a mind trapped in a meat suit, and in these essays I find both kinship and inspiration to strive toward being at peace with my physicality."