Like Bodies, Like Minds celebrates stories from 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, and 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, and the project encourages people to look at one another, and our own bodies, with gentle eyes and zero assumptions.

Created by writer, Angela Barnett and illustrator, Ruby Jones
Supported by the Mental Health Foundation, YWCA Auckland, and Christchurch City Council.