Body Dysmorphia and Self-Acceptance with Ian Kumamoto | Episode 26

Ian Kumamoto (he/they) is a journalist, a queer person and a Chinese-Mexican who is active on social media sharin what's actually going on in his part of the world and serving us truth. Ian was born and raised in Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish and moved to the US  and spent some time in their childhood in Spain. He graduated BA. in Print Journalism and Globral Liberal Studies from NYU in 2019 and shortly after, co-founded, Chaos+Comrades, a magazine by and for queer people of color.In addition to their freelance work, they are current a writer for Mic, covering  health, identity, sex, drugs, money, career, and travel.This episode we discuss:🌈 Finding your own unique way to get through educational systems that don't support you🌈Writing in English as multilingual person🌈 Love-hate relationship with social media platforms🌈Reclaiming your identity outside of racialized sexual objectification as a queer man of color🌈Healing race based body dysmorphiaEpisode ResourcesOrder your copy of Decolonizing Wellness and grab exclusive access to my author lead bookclub  https://www.daliakinsey.com/bookConnect with Ian KumamotoTikTok: @chino_cholohttps://instagram.com/ian.kumahttps://www.jikumamoto.com/https://chaosandcomrades.com/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bodyliberation/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bodyliberation/support This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit daliakinsey.substack.com