Airline to Heaven, Part I began as an animation installation and suite of works on paper. Annie Heckman created writings in tandem with this exhibition, forming a series of short texts exploring afterlife ideologies, dead pets, and strategies for facing the end of life. These are collected here together with drawings and animation stills from that series. Matthew Dal Santo and Terri L. Russ were both invited to contribute to the book as a sort of salon anthology; rather than writing essays on the work, they created their own primary texts to run parallel to the themes explored in the existing art and texts. The result is a powerful collaboration, serving as a pilot project for the press in establishing dynamic interactions among artists and writers.

Airline to Heaven, Part I

Annie Heckman

Matthew Dal Santo

Terri L. Russ

Arts & Photography

StepSister Press, LLC

<i>Bitchin' Bodies</i> began as a series of individual and small group interviews with young college women in the United States. Over a seven-year research period, Terri used these conversations to create a compelling analysis of body shape discourse and the way it is experienced, shared, and reframed by young women in conversation. While most of us are aware of eating disorders, Terri's approach encompasses the everyday experiences of being dissatisfied with personal appearance, and the impact of these preoccupations on our interactions, goals, and participation in society. Divided into sections exploring personal, interpersonal, and cultural dimensions of body dissatisfaction, this book serves at once as a comfort for personal reading, a resource for young women and those working with them on these issues, and a compelling introduction to topics in feminism and communication studies. Karin Lekan's images complicate this text by creating a surreal world in which strangely empowered women move with a sense of reflection in relation to their bodies, which sometimes literally come apart in pieces. Her images appear throughout the book, creating an uncanny interpretation of the world Terri describes.

Bitchin' Bodies: young women talk about body dissatisfaction

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

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Books by Terri L. Russ