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Bodies

Bodies Behold

Bodies is an anthology that celebrates lived experience and creative resistance in the fight for global health equity.

A watercolour image with bright orange, green, blue and purpble. Black lines surround the different colour sections, almost like map lines, with what squiggle lines within various shapes.
A watercolour image with bright orange, green, blue and purpble. Black lines surround the different colour sections, almost like map lines, with what squiggle lines within various shapes.
A watercolour image with bright orange, green, blue and purpble. Black lines surround the different colour sections, almost like map lines, with what squiggle lines within various shapes.

Global Anthology of Life+Art

Bodies compiles artwork from people navigating the challenges of diabetes and chronic conditions. Submissions of poetry, prose, and visual art are accepted. 

Purpose

Amplifying Voices

Visualising Justice

Bridging the gap between art and activism, using creative expression to highlight the urgent realities of the fight for healthcare access.

Providing a global platform for creators within the chronic illness community to showcase their work and build visibility.

Why This Focus for Bodies?

As an integral part of the disability justice movement, we specifically center chronic illness to illuminate the invisible labor and fluctuating realities of conditions often hidden from view. We aim to give voice to the unique resistance required to navigate a world that frequently fails to see or understand a struggle that takes place within the body.

Bodies centres lived experience because it is the most powerful tool we have to expose the human cost of healthcare inequities. When we share our own stories on our own terms, we take back the narrative from capitalist healthcare structures that often speak for us, rather than with us.
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Those who navigate the daily realities of chronic illness and the global access to medication crisis possess a unique wisdom for reimagining a more equitable world. Bodies shapes individual resistance stories into a collective form of creative survival that centers our humanity over any diagnosis. 

Submit Your Work

Seeking submissions related to the realities of living with a chronic condition, lack of access to medication, healthcare inequity, systemic barriers, and the power of patient-led advocacy.

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Submissions of the following original works will be accepted:

  • Poems

  • Stories, essays and prose (no more than 800 words)

  • Artwork (inclusive of all types of art)

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NOT accepted:

  • Pieces that promote hate speech, medical misinformation, or commercial advertising

  • Content generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

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Important Notes: 

  • All content submitted must be originally yours. It is vital that submitted content is fully written by those submitting. ​

  • A goal for future is that payment will be provided for print edition publication of pieces in addition to payment for the Editorial team. Currently, this project is volunteer-run and there is no payment associated with publication.

  • Artists will retain full copyright ownership of their work.

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