Women En Large
Images of Fat Nudes
“The fear of fat our culture glories in is no stranger to me. It nearly convinced me to kill myself. To disappear myself, my female, fleshy self. To tidy up, like a good girl, leaving no trace of breasts, buttocks, hips. No folds, no curves. All flat, sterile, a-womanly. To become the anti-woman.”
— Elise Matthesen
Familiar Men
A Book of Nudes
“In [Laurie’s] unadorned captured moments, we are familiar, yet without the artifice of imposed masculinity. There is not one depilated, big-dicked, bubble-butted, pumped-up man-boy among us.”
— John Killacky, model
Women of Japan
“I have been rejected by existing specialties, and I have refused to enter such specialties. Stuck between those two spaces, I have continued to engage in my daily work and activities. I thought that by doing so I would eventually find my natural place. But … this seems not to be the case. I feel a disconnect and an incompatibility between myself as a woman and the system that blankets Japanese society.”
— Junko Fuzakawa