"I don't want to have a body anymore. I want to have an experience of being a body," she says. "What if, okay, what if Descartes, what is all that was wrong? What if every single thing that we have learned about who we are is wrong?" She adds: "We're like minds in like meat suits."
Why Glennon respects “body positivity” – but it doesn’t work for her.
What if every single thing we’ve learned about who we are is wrong? What if we ARE our Bodies?
What if instead of trying to love our bodies, we could experience being alive on this planet… as bodies?
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CW: eating disorders
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