“I became disabled during a transitional moment, when from a young girl you become a woman, those years in which you experiment and play with your own image in order to find a definitive one; and I must say that for me it was not easy, it was a process that took a long time. In general I think it's not easy for any woman, but for one in a wheelchair it's even more so, above all because I didn't have reference models to inspire me, no 'sitting' fashion image,...

“Love helps to build us up and to become proud of our uniqueness: to take our uniqueness as a gift from heaven, as a power. It's not easy, I know. But by getting to know ourselves, by seeing what we like and what we can do with our uniqueness, when we mix it all together, it makes a beautiful result. To be as happy as possible, I don't think about what I could have done if I wasn't small. If you accept yourself people will have no choice but to...

“I love everything that has to do with make-up and clothes: I love wearing red lipstick, and sparkling dresses that don’t make me go unnoticed in the crowd. I’ve always wanted to be a model, I enjoy posing, and in fact I thank the Fantabody team for giving me this chance. […] Even if we can’t please everyone, it doesn’t matter, the important thing is to please yourself. I don’t care what people think looking at my photos or videos, I feel beautiful just the way I am and I...

"I am a Gen Z changemaker and f. I am dedicated to serving my community and I am currently the Advocacy Director at Alliance for Girls which is the largest regional network of girl-serving organizations in the US. As a young woman, I have first-hand experience of how sexist cultural norms and policies limit the potential of girls. My story is just one of many. At my organization, we hear these stories in our research. We work with youth researchers to understand these stories so that we can address their...

"I’m Emmanuelle, 27, from Brussels, Belgium. Both of my parents are from Burundi but I’ve lived most of my life here in Brussels. As a black trans woman, I am in the intersectionality of three minorities. While growing up, I could first witness this kind of issue through the eyes of my elder sisters. As we lived in Africa, we grew up with imposed European beauty standards. As I saw them playing with their blond and blue eyed dolls, the process of interlacing the wrong idea of beauty apparel often...

“I am Benedetta, I am 26 years old and I am originally from Puglia but I moved to Novara since I was 12 years old. At the moment I work at Ermenegildo Zegna and I am following a course as a modiste as I would like to undertake an advancement in my career. This year has been a very difficult year for everyone, and although I still managed to get some satisfactions like becoming a union delegate at work, there are other projects that I was forced to give up...

“My name is Misungui, I’m a sex worker, I perform in feminist and queer porn and I also perform on stage as a shibari artist, my daily job is to be a Dominatrix and I am a sex educator so I organize workshops about pour bodies and sexualities. I was studying gender and I decided to do my reserch on feminist porn so I start to meet a lot of women who did stuff about feminism, body, sexuality… and at a point I realize that i was not just interested...

“My name is Cheryl, aged 34 from the United Kingdom. I am a full time mother of two boys aged 12 and 4. I love being a mom, My children are my life, everything I do is for them. I have a passion for cooking and physical activities such as the gym which helps me with my overall physical and mental health. Reading has also become one of my favourite hobbies as it helps me to stay focused. Alongside my motherly duties I am a diverse model and self love...

“I’m Giulia but I almost always prefer ZUZU. I am a 24 year old cartoonist, illustrator and incurable playful person. I am a capricorn with gemini rising, so i want everyone to take me seriously except me. I hardly believe in anything, only in bonds and intuitions. Comics, like any other art form, serve to tell stories. And for me, telling stories means taking a few steps back from yourself, looking out. This operation allows me not to feel any shame, no sense of inadequacy even when I reveal confidential...

"My name is Lucy Beall, I am twenty-one and am currently a student at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, but am originally from Texas. I am doing a joint degree in History of Art and Classics, specialising in Early Medieval art and Roman British Archeology. Before St. Andrews, I had the pleasure of studying in London with Sotheby’s institute of Art and Birkbeck College. I missed so much school as a child due to my condition, but those days staying home from school were the most valuable of...

“My name is Trista McGovern. I am a photographer, editor, artist, and writer based out of Minneapolis. Lately I have been focused on promoting awareness and education about ableism – especially disability and sexuality. I have been using my personal life experiences as an example for people to learn from. Within my photographic work, I love photographing anything that is about humans being humans, especially vulnerably intimate portraits, body studies, social series, and lifestyle portraits. Outside of my passion for photography and social issues, I spend a lot of time...

“I'm Raya, a 23 years old trangender women, I live in Paris but I come from a french volcanic island in the middle of the Indian ocean, called “La Réunion“; I grow up there and I move to Paris at 17 years old to find a way to construct my identity and future without no one to stop me. I’m a model, an artist and my work turns around love and passion that I discovered with people I meet everyday in my life. I just realized that my body didn’t...

“Hello everyone, I’m Kimberly, I’m 15. My dream is to go to university and ultimately become a journalist and prove that people with disabilities can be successful, in life. I would love to become an ambassador for the positive promotion of and raising of awareness of albinism through my modelling. In the past I had an internal conflict with myself and my albinism. Despite my mum’s best attempts to educate me and bring me up as a black child I rejected this and identified myself as white. I struggled with...

“For Maasai, scars are a sign of strength and beauty. That you can sit trough the pain and not cry out. The ones on my legs I did myself. They are more scarred/ raised because I held the fire longer on my legs. You get more respect for not being afraid and then as well you are considered more beautiful. There are also small round scars on my arms that I created with red hot coca-cola bottle caps.”...

“Hi, I’m Veronica Yoko and I’m an athlete. The sport that made me compete in many world competitions and that brings me a lot of medals is absolutely my greatest passion, and above all it was my greatest support to win the biggest challenge, the one with myself! I was 15 when, on a day like so many, I was struck by fulminant meningitis. Six months in the hospital, without seeing anyone but my parents, where I slowly saw my body transformation. The most strange moment was when I left...