When Fiction and Truth Blur the Line: Let’s Talk Body Horror

We often speak about autonomy as if it is a fixed and universal right. Or as something so cleanly defined and equally experienced. That’s the theory, right? The ability to govern one’s own body, to decide what it endures, what it risks, and what it becomes. In reality autonomy has never existed on equal terms.

I’m going to deep dive into this as a woman. My thoughts and ideas are my own and do not reflect on any entity I write for or work for entirely. That means, I am not speaking for them as whole. They are separate. I think I’ve made this clear enough, but just in case … do not go running for my employer, magazine, or publisher.

Now buckle up.

What makes body horror so effective is that it is not entirely imaginary. It actually draws from real, underlying fear of the body becoming something you do not control.

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