Feminism gives me permission to fully engage in the “as myself” part of “loving my neighbor as myself.”
Because of feminism I can stop trying to make myself smaller and more attractive and more modest and more confirmative and instead celebrate my body as an image of God.
I don’t need to shrink myself down to fit into a socially acceptable mold. This unruly, unsubmissive body is the one God made for me, and when I am secure in that knowledge I can turn to my neighbors and love the misfits and the outliers in all their unruly, unsubmissive glory too.
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Words: Abi Jordan Bechtel
Image: Jim Kast-Keat
Music: Small Colin
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