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Like Bodies Like Minds + true stories about body image and mental health

An exhibition celebrating the stories of eleven brilliant bodies, of survival and struggle, and of hope and healing.
In sharing these, we hope to reduce shame around mental health and body image, and increase understanding of life inside someone else’s skin. Being judged by our outsides - our abilities, orientations, size, or ethnicity - affects our insides and how we think and feel about ourselves. But there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to exist in our bodies and minds. The project encourages people to look at one another, and at our own bodies, with gentle eyes and zero assumptions.

Created by writer, Angela Barnett and illustrator, Ruby Jones
Official Instagram: @likebodieslikeminds

Like Bodies Like Minds Exhibition (13 April - 2 June)
Te Pito Huarewa / Southbase Gallery
Tuakiri | Identity, Level 2, Tūranga

Free entry

'Like Bodies Like Minds' was initially funded by a Nōku te Ao: Like Minds Media Grant, with support from the Mental Health Foundation, Stuff, Liquid Studios, YWCA Auckland, and Christchurch City Council.

Ruby Jones is an illustrator and author based in Pōneke. She is best known for her drawing of two women embracing in a hug with the words ‘this is your home and you should have been safe here’ which was spread widely following the 2019 Christchurch terror attacks. Since then she has illustrated a cover for Time magazine and released two books, All Of This Is For You and In This Body which have been translated into multiple languages. You can see more of her work at www.rubyalicerose.com or @rubyalicerose on instagram.

Angela Barnett is a body image champion and writer from Tāmaki Makaurau. Her stories have been featured on Stuff, Sunday, The Listener, The Spinoff, Canvas, Idealog, and The Huffington Post. Her stories have been placed in the Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition and Te Tauihu Short Story Awards 2024. She also works for the YWCA, advocating for young women and non-binary trailblazers.

In This Body
All of This Is for You