Hansika Jethnani
artist & poet
"An Affair With Food" zine cover — purple and yellow watercolour with abstract scribbles and a pressed daisy, resting on crumpled blue fabric
Open spread on blue fabric — left page with highlighted text "i wanted to be just skin and bone" and "we spend so much time finding ways to get rid of normalities on our bodies rather than dreaming of far more worthwhile things" — right page reads "what if we were all raised to believe we are enough just the way we are?" with daisy illustrations, "less shallow, more humane"
Open spread on blue fabric — left page with line drawing of a figure and bold poem "to the bully that told me your first impression of me was fat, you're bloody damn right i was fat, fat with the anger I never dared to express" — right page is vivid magenta, cyan, yellow and pink abstract painting

A personal reflection of experiencing fat shaming, navigating my body and living with binge eating disorder.

An Affair With Food

A personal reflection of experiencing fat shaming, navigating my body and living with binge eating disorder. As I began discovering body positivity and fat acceptance, I learnt to embrace my body as it is, and questioned the systems of the world that taught me to loathe it.

MediumDigital illustration, ink & creative writing
Size8.3 x 5.7 inches
Timeline2018-2021

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