Anya Cordell

Programs, Workshops, Activism

Appearance-based judging, Anti-bias issues, Healing hatred

2010 Spirit of Anne Frank Award Recipient

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About Anya

About all of us

"About Us...all of us"

by Anya Cordell

Everyone experiences life

from inside a body.

Everyone knows how it feels to be judged,

based on appearance.

Everyone knows that there is

something unfair about how

they are seen from the outside,

versus

who they truly are on the inside.

We judge others, and sometimes

we judge our own appearance with

the most severe harshness and cruelty.

Even those who are considered

great beauties in our culture

may feel that they are treated

as valuable objects, as "its",

instead of as humans.

Thus, we all can appreciate

the injustice of any form of

appearance-based judging, as well as

stereotyping, racism, and all sorts of bias.

Imagine a world in which everyone's

appearance, abilities, gender,

orientation, culture, ethnicity, etc.

were valued, 'as-is', in which each of us

felt intrinsically worthy and safe.

Our personal longing for such a world

is a means to bridging great divides,

a key to compassion for others,

even compassion for ourselves--

particularly when,

perhaps through aging or illness, we do not see

a familiar image in the mirror.

Anya Cordell's work

has been featured on

ABC-TV’s

“Someone You Should Know”

The Washington Post

USA Today

The Chicago Tribune

Chicago Public Radio

IslamophobiaToday

The Dallas Morning News

Mindful Metropolis

Chicago Jewish News

Tikkun.org

Pluralism.org

Tolerance.org

(Web-publication of The Southern Poverty Law Center)

Execution Chronicles

e-International Relations

Radio Baladi

and more

Recipient of the

2010 Spirit of Anne Frank

Outstanding Citizen Award

Author:

RACE: An Open & Shut Case

Anya's unique journey includes facing chronic illness and appearance-based challenges with surprising responses, strategies, even humor.

She has inspired thousands of participants.

Anya's ongoing mission is against stereotyping, teasing, body hatred, self-hatred, bias and intolerance of all sorts.

Her passionate work has led to friendships with families of innocent hate-crime victims, assaulted on the basis of appearance and religious garb, and to activism on a national level. Her story is extraordinary.

You, too, will find a strength, a voice, an attitude, you have never had before.

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