Students Cover Mirrors in Girls' Restrooms to Deemphasize Appearance
LatestA group of seniors at Trinity Academy, a private Christian school in Wichita, Kansas, have papered over the mirrors in all the girls’ restrooms in an effort to promote positive body image. Rather than their reflections, female students are met with an array of Bible verses and old chestnuts on inner beauty.
Senior Hannah Hancock explained the motivation behind this project to KWCH12:
“We were trying to think of ideas of how we could serve the underclassmen and make the most impact…Especially as freshmen and sophomores, you’re trying to find your identity and who you are and we want them to find their identity in God and in Christ and not in a mirror and not what their outward appearance looks like.”
The mirrors will eventually be uncovered, but in the meantime, the response among the female underclassmen has been quite positive. Hancock’s younger sister, also a student at Trinity, told her “how it’s important she got to see this.”