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Denise Mcleod, producer, comedian, textile artist I am never going to have blond hair. I am never going to have blue eyes. We have to stop viewing ourselves through colonized eyes By Radheyan Simonpillai
Samuel Engelking
I wanted to be a part of the Love Your Body issue for years, after I saw one of my heroes – Monique Mojica, an Indigenous face – in these pages. I don’t get to see a lot of faces like mine. I don’t get to see bodies like mine. Because of Western standards of beauty, representation in the media is not of me – an urban Anishinaabe woman who is two-spirited or Indigiqueer.
While your gym or yoga studio may no longer be offering in-person yoga classes right now, you can still get in your fix at home: The best YouTube yoga videos can bring your favorite kind of classes right to your living room.
“YouTube yoga is a great option for people during the pandemic because it increases access to yoga,” registered yoga teacher Heather Freeman, the program manager of YogaX at Stanford University, tells SELF. “During this time when we are under an unprecedented amount of stress, anything that we would normally do for our mental health or for social connection is limited to what we can do in our home.”