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Morayo Ogunbayo July 21, 2021Updated: July 21, 2021, 6:17 pm Four Seasons Private Residences at 706 Mission Street (top) and the Contemporary Jewish Museum (front) in San Francisco.  Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle The Contemporary Jewish Museum announced its new executive director, Chad Coerver, on Wednesday, July 21, who will take the helm after 22 years with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  Coerver, who will begin his new position in September, replaces Lori Starr, the organization’s director for seven years before departing in late 2020. During his decades-l...

This story is part of a group of stories called In the beginning of 2020, Morayo Ogunbayo was aware that the vast majority of women did not look like Kendall Jenner. As a 19-year-old college student, she knew that to meet American culture’s body standard was to either hit the genetic lottery or have enough money to fake it convincingly. She knew that this ideal was rooted in sexist and Eurocentric beliefs about femininity, that most women fell far short of achieving it, and that that was perfectly normal. Then the pandemic hit, and she began spending a lot more of her time scrolling th...