Body type preferences have fluctuated over the last 100 years, but activists in Asheville are encouraging women to be their own icons.

Body type preferences have fluctuated over the last 100 years, but activists in Asheville are encouraging women to be their own icons.
Area organizations screen documentaries on healing, mass incarceration, resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline and ending weight stigma and more.
For Army veteran William Gallion, a busy schedule makes finding time to treat back injuries and post traumatic stress disorder difficult. But thanks to a collaboration between Connected Warriors and Happy Body yoga studio, he and other veterans have been able to find relief through yoga.