Rokeshia Renné Ashley, Jaehee Jung, #BlackBodiesMatter: Cross-Cultural Examination of Black Women's Motivation to Engage in Body Modification, Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3 (APRIL 2017), pp ...

Anthony Loffredo has taken the concept of body modifications to the extreme, undergoing a remarkable transformation to resemble an alien. His journey, known as the “Black Alien Project,” has ...

Body modification art has been burning up the headlines lately, ever since artist and New York University professor Wafaa Bilal announced that he would be undergoing surgery to implant a thumbnail ...

Body positivity movements are also on the rise; however, text-based "disclaimers" about the artificiality of social media images do not always seem to diminish their impact on subsequent body ...

Johnny Karlsson/© SHM CC BY 2.5 SE "We do not know what this body modification signaled originally," the researchers said. "Maybe it was a token of social status, beauty or particular social groups.

BACKGROUND: Obesity has been increasing dramatically in recent years among children, particularly African-American girls. Total-body electrical conductivity (TOBEC) is a simple way to measure body ...