Body Dysmorphia and Self-Acceptance with Ian Kumamoto | Episode 26
Ian Kumamoto (he/they) is a journalist, a queer person and a Chinese-Mexican who is active on social media sharin what's actually going on in his part of the world and serving us truth. Ian was born and raised in Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish and moved to the US and spent some time in their childhood in Spain. He graduated BA. in Print Journalism and Globral Liberal Studies from NYU in 2019 and shortly after, co-founded, Chaos+Comrades, a magazine by and for queer people of color.
In addition to their freelance work, they are current a writer for Mic, covering health, identity, sex, drugs, money, career, and travel.
This episode we discuss:
🌈 Finding your own unique way to get through educational systems that don't support you
🌈Writing in English as multilingual person
🌈 Love-hate relationship with social media platforms
🌈Reclaiming your identity outside of racialized sexual objectification as a queer man of color
🌈Healing race based body dysmorphia
Episode Resources
Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness and grab exclusive access to my author lead bookclub https://www.daliakinsey.com/book
Connect with Ian Kumamoto
TikTok: @chino_cholo
https://instagram.com/ian.kuma
https://www.jikumamoto.com/
https://chaosandcomrades.com/
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