“When I saw a glimpse of Dunham stripped bare on her shower floor in ‘Tiny Furniture’, something happened in my brain that I still think about to this day.”
for the first time in a dorm bed in rural Ohio, on a college campus just over an hour from where Dunham went to school, and I instantly felt uncomfortably seen.
Dunham was far from the first artist to use her body as a canvas – Maria Lassnig, Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann, and many more paved the way for her – but she was the first person I saw onscreen whose naked physical contours reminded me of my own, at least before my dramatic freshman-year weight loss; and while her nude body didn’t instantly transform me, it taught me something about the kind of story I was allowed to tell about the way I looked.
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