Buff Women Series

Born in response to the body positivity movement that often reproduces the same female objectification it attempts to criticize, the Buff Women celebrate female strength and gender nonconformity. While identified as women, their androgynous figures emphasize a continuity between the sexes, rather than a vision of men and women being discrete and “opposite,” and present an alternative vision of femininity. Some of the Buff Women display healed self-harm scars on top of the muscles that they show off, honoring recovery and resistance.