(Extra) Soft Animal

(Extra) Soft Animal

Home Body

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Kelley Clink (they/she)
Jul 29, 2025
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four panel pencil comic. panel one is a drawing of my shoulder, throat, jaw, ear, and hair. text reads: Reminder: your body is not a problem. Panel two, my stomach, hips, and legs, drawn from the perspective of me laying on my back with legs bent, looking down at my body, my hand on my stomach. text: to be solved. Panel 3 is a drawing of my upper body and head from the back. text: it's a home to return to. Panel four is a drawing of my upper body and lower face from the front, hand resting gently on my chest. text: again and again.

I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, thinking I would wait to share it until I had a full essay of thoughts about how I’m working to change my relationship with my body, but I haven’t had many thoughts, yet, much less a whole essay of them. I’ve spent decades trying to “fix” my body, trying to make it perform and feel the way I want it to; the way…

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