A Non-Normative Body Activity Book
16 pages, Black and White 5.5x8.5
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
There comes a time in every fat child’s life when they realize they don’t have what is considered a “normal” body. For me, it was going back-to-school shopping one year and my mom noticed that she had to start buying my pants in the “Youth Husky” section of the boys department. “Youth Husky” is a zine about the personal experience of navigating the confines of an often one-size-fits-all world, and the life lessons it imparts.
The 16 page zine comes with a pencil and asks the reader to draw on the images to “complete” the missing portions of the figures. With the final product in the readers control, “Youth Husky” is only complete when the readers imagines (or re-imagines) the possibilities of the human form. Perhaps in the drawing process, the zine shows in some small way that body image is both personal and social.