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#BodyPositive: Disrupting Normativity Online

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Victoria Mohr
23/04/2018
11 minutes to read

#bodypositive has been used by more than 4 million users on Instagram. This paper uses a Foucauldian lens to explore how body positive Instagrammers counter normative discourses of the body in western societies. 

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Obsession with one’s body is often part of growing up. The unspoken question is here: which standard are we trying to apply to ourselves?