
2022
“I Beg You To Like Me”, serves as a testimony of individuals who felt oppressed about their body image for not meeting the standard beauty criteria, and demonstrates how a reckless language based on others’ physical appearance could turn violent. It aims to achieve much more than simply stating the obvious, which is that we are not obligated to submit to the ideal beauty standards dictated by the media, consumerism and the beauty industry. The intimate stories about one’s own body image as told by women, men, disabled people and LGBT individuals make it apparent that any one of us could end up being a victim and a perpetrator at the same time. What if, this iconic body image is nothing but an unobtainable fallacy? “Is it not yet the time to openly discuss the conventional perception of beauty, and step up onto the catwalk in our actual likeness?

Pınar Şenol

İrem Erkaya

Fidel Lemoy

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Rylan: Homophobia, Football and Me

DIVERSXS

I Am

Cruel and Unusual

The Fall of '55

I Am My Own Woman

Workhorse Queen

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Queens and Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo

When Pride Becomes Prejudice

Growing Up Trans

Out in the Middle of Nowhere

Foot for Love

Conchita: Unstoppable

Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts

Track Two

Butch Jamie

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