it left me smiling uncontrollably. Hosted by plus model Barbie Ferreira, who I personally admire for her charisma and uplifting social media presence, the videos explored topics I’m deeply invested in: self-empowerment, representation, and body diversity in fashion and our everyday lives. The award-winning project spanned six different episodes featuring rule-breaking models sounding off about size diversity in the fashion industry, five different men talking their self-love journey, a frank discussion about social media and its impact on one’s body image with students from Barbie’s old high school, a cooking lesson with Barbie and her mom, even a studio visit to Big Girl Yoga, founded by body positive yogi Jessamyn Stanley. At the start of New York Fashion Week, rapper Jidenna sits in a hotel room where artistNira Alamgir Priya Dalal-Whelan, 18, had parents who did various kinds of movement organizing, and had never heard the termgeneration wars “The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice.” That’s what Hernandez felt, he says, when he saw people celebrating the murals while cries to defund police departments went unheard. “If you’re not connected to your elders, and you’re not connected to people who’ve done this work before, that’s something that you’re going to celebrate without realizing that that’s a symbolic victory and not something that’s actually going to bring us any sort of equity and real justice,” Hernandez tellsTeen Vogue