Your Body Is Your Own
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4 min readDec 17, 2020
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
It wasn’t until the summer before I turned 40 that I realized how deeply ingrained was a belief I had that my body was not my own, that it was made primarily for a man to enjoy.
I have always remembered a reading from college by W.E.B. DuBois, an African-American Harlem Renaissance author who wrote The Souls of Black Folk. In this sociological work, he explains…
