Izolda Trakhtenberg, Storyteller

Playwright, Author, Director, Podcaster

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Category: body image

  • A bikini and a swimming pool: A lesson in body image

    (This might offend some, but it’s what I’m thinking about so consider yourselves warned.)  I’m too much a product of my upbringing. And that saddens me. But, I’m so proud of the people in front of me, and that makes me weep joyful tears. I’m hanging out by the pool, and we are in “The…

  • Today's Teeny Tiny Tushy Miracle

    (Might be a bit more about me than you wanted to know so feel free to breeze past this. But it’s my miracle of the day so I had to share. 😀 ) Here’s an unexpected side benefit of all the physical therapy I’ve been doing for my legs/knees. I’m developing a bigger butt. No,…

  • An informal experiment in approachability, communication, and cute vs shlubby

    I’ve been running an informal experiment for the last couple of weeks. Those of you who know me, know what I’m shaped like. Those who don’t, take a look at my pic below. I am, what a friend recently described, curvy. Am I thin? Nope. Am I in shape? Mostly (will get back into better…

  • Calling for Models of all colors, sizes, and styles

    I just listened to a Tell Me More broadcast on the lack of representation of women of color on magazine covers. It stemmed from a FB post by Jada Pinkett Smith asking whether or not magazines that are traditionally geared towards women of color should start putting white women on their covers. I get that…