Monica Gonzalez
Monica Gonzalez
CANDID
My younger sister shared her insecurities about her body with me. I was shocked. Enraged. Whatever her experiences, and whatever influences she’d internalized, had propagated the dark and twisted beliefs she held to be true. It makes me shudder. The truth is, while my story is different from my sister’s, while everyone’s story is different, the resulting pathology is largely the same. Every woman has a similar story of her own. Every woman. This fact prompted me to make room for such stories, to give women a space in which to share their own unique and startling narratives, and to speak to taboo topics like sex, masturbation, and menstruation. I interviewed and recorded several women and designed a publication that celebrates the value of their varied experiences. As a designer, a woman, a sister, a friend, I believe it is my duty to speak to issues that, left unspoken, will continue mutating and twisting how women see themselves and their bodies.
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