
Mental Health Allyship
Hi! I’m Mia, the feminist illustrator behind @shardstudios on Instagram. About a year and a half ago I began a project called the #RealBodiesProject, a celebration of the fullness of the female form. All their lives, women have received messages telling them to cover up their curvaceousness, to be ashamed of being fat, to aspire to be as thin as possible. A few years ago, I was ill and became dangerously underweight. It was the weakest and unhealthiest I have ever been, ye