Body Image

In this Destination, Doni chats with Michelle Fox, host of the “Healthy Sexy Nutrition” podcast. Fox talks about her career as a professional dancer, getting married, moving to Denver, Colo., U.S.A. and becoming a culinary nutritionist. Fox talks about making […]

Culturs TV sat down with Shayla Montero in this three-part series about her spiritual awakening and her journey discovering her inner beauty — starting by cutting her hair. In Part 1, she talked about discovering her inner beauty. In Part […]

Culturs TV spoke with Shayla Montero, a multicultural poet, about her journey through her spiritual awakening and the discovery of her inner beauty. Montero’s poem “Awaken” describes the different experiences that molded her personality and transformed her into the person […]

Born in Havana, Cuba in November 1948, Ana Mendieta was a well-known performance artist throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. At age 12, she and her sister were forced to flee Cuba after her father joined an anti-Castro counter-revolutionary force, and the two siblings spent their first few weeks in the United States at a refugee camp in Florida until they were sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa — a location with a culture very different from the life Ana knew back in Cuba. She wouldn’t reunite with her mother and brother for five years and her father for another 18.

The result of living a life that straddles borders, cultures and identities can be unresolved grief and emotion that’s trapped within the body. Through a series of poses, yoga can help release such emotion and free a person of past trauma physically and spiritually. A routine yoga practice can also strengthen the mind-body-spirit connection.

In book one of the “What (Race) Are We” series, Ivorian-American Muslim author Papatia Feauxzar introduces readers to Nouredine on his first day of preschool. The boy, an only child, is elated to be around so many other kids — until one of his schoolmates asks him: “What are you!?”

Adventure, exploration and information: These form the foundation of Dorian Gregory and Nichole Cruz’s The 4to5 Club, a new podcast and website focused on health and wellness.

This series has so far explored the lives of two models who refuse to wear the hijab when modeling. Ikram Abdi Omar is an exception.  It’s her goal in modelling to represent her religion authentically by insisting on wearing the hijab.