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Saturday Vids: Lily Myers "Shrinking Woman"
You may have already seen the viral video of Lily Myers' beautiful spoken poem "Shrinking Woman," but in honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, it's definitely worth experiencing again. All...
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What Happens After You Lose Weight
I wouldn't say that I was ever fat. I was always just overweight enough that girls would tell me I looked "fine" and guys wouldn't tell me much of anything (because I guess my dazzling intellect and s...
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Vogue vs Dunham vs Jezebel
Recently, I have been caught up in thinking about Lena Dunham's photo-shoot for Vogue Magazine. I am an avid Girls watcher and a Lena Dunham fan: she's quirky, funny, sharp, and not afraid to say wha...
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Body Positivity Looks Different For Each Person
I clearly did not wake up like this. There is liquid eyeliner on my eyes to create this cat eye, there is bronzer on my cheekbones to create the illusion that I have been in the sunlight, and there is...
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Why #Unapologetic Barbie Might Just Help The Body Positive Cause
As a feminist blogger who consistently deconstructs the way things like Barbie and digitally altered images of models objectify women and hold them to unachievable standards of beauty, I completely un...
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On Being Incorporated
The term incorporated is often used to describe an organization or business that has become legalized and made official. People can become incorporated as well, as in the cases of celebrities putting ...
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Helle Thorning-Schmidt vs. Mary Beard or Why Women Just Can't Get It Right
You've been living under a rock if you're not in the know about the Obama #selfie pic which circulated after the Nelson Mandela memorial service. If you have in fact been residing under said rock then...
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December 08, 2013 | Chloe Hallinan |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Girls,
Media,
Science and tech
The Problem With Mean Girls
The vast majority of us are familiar with the movie Mean Girls (written by the amazing Tina Fey). Although the film has the quintessential embellishments of most chick flicks, it also sheds light on t...
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Saturday Vids: Ur Allure
I think we can all agree that, generally, when it comes to the portrayal of women in the media -- in terms of everything from gender roles, to beauty standards to depictions of female sexuality and be...
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October 30, 2013 | Natalia R. |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism
Young, Feminist and Hungry: An Insider's Perspective On Body Image
As a teenage girl, I'm constantly haunted by social and cultural standards that dictate harmful and confusing messages, like that a low weight is correlated with beauty, that you need to be thin to be...
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October 27, 2013 | Sam H |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Media,
Misogyny,
Politics,
Race/Ethnicity
The Black Girl Conundrum
I will never forget the noise that my mother made when she first saw it. We were navigating the streets of New York on a busy Saturday in 2011, running late for a hair appointment. She was walking so ...
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Julie Chen Didn’t Betray Me
CBS “The Talk” host Julie Chen revealed on Thursday that as a young journalist, she was pressured by racist comments from a boss to undergo surgical procedures to enlarge her eyes.
“He said, ‘Let’s f...
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October 01, 2013 | Ally B and Emma M |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Health,
Media,
Misogyny
A Response to “The 100 Things Every 20-Something Needs to Realize”
When we noticed the article “The 100 Things Every 20-Something Needs to Realize” being posted and reposted on Facebook last week by some of our favorite ladies, we thought we’d give it a look. We hope...
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How Fashion IS A Feminist Issue
Fashion is so much more than just clothing and trends: it's a feminist issue. The industry makes £20.9 billion for the British economy each year, and creates 816,000 jobs in the UK alone: however, the...
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How I Freed Myself from Society’s Toxic Messages and Learned to Love Myself
“Um…so how do you do this emotional processing thing?”
I asked this question at 23 years old because I had never really heard of “emotional processing” until then. The way I dealt with my feelings we...
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Saturday Vids: You're Not Pretty Enough
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Jennifer Tress' "You're Not Pretty Enough" movement on The Huffington Post. I encourage everybody to read that post and visit the YNPE website, but basically the deal is...
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Makeup “Like a Feminist”: An Interview with Taylor Adele Smith
If you’re in the feminist blogger community, chances are you’ve seen Taylor Adele Smith’s “Feminist Makeup Tutorial” video. And even if you’re not, with over half a million views (so far), you may hav...
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How Stock Photos Reflect The Way We View Women
Last year, I was working on a graphic art submission to the National Organization for Women (NOW)’s Love Your Body Poster Contest. To execute my concept, I needed to find a lot of stock photos of w...
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It's The Small Things That Count
What is passion? First, you discover something -- maybe a sport, a hobby, or even a problem in your community. The “something” (whatever it is) snatches a bit of your soul. Without the “something,” ...
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Body Positivity: A Primer
Let’s face it: our society is full of messed up messages about our bodies. We are told that we are too fat, too old, too short, too hairy, toosaggy…and the list never ends. Our culture doesn’t embrace...
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August 11, 2013 | Bridget C. |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism
Southern Belle or Southern Hell?
Growing up, I always had the benefit of playing sports and hanging out with boys. It was great until around seventh grade. Then girls and boys separated. We didn't play sports together during recess, ...
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Attention People With Body Parts
My name is Lexie and I am the Founder and Creative Director of Attention: People With Body Parts, an international body-positive initiative with an emphasis on book-making, letter-writing, and collabo...
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Model Citizen
I would like to preface this essay by saying that I am a feminist (I have written four other articles for the FBomb), I am sixteen, and I have been model with Ford Models for two years. My opinions ar...
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Why Dustin Hoffman’s ‘Tootsie’ Confession Is More Than A Personal Epiphany
A clip of Dustin Huffman’s emotionally charged recounting of a decades-ago epiphany that cross-dressing for his role in ‘Tootsie’ forced him to recognize how men are brainwashed to value women based o...
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Your Body Is Too Distracting: School Dress Codes and Slut Shaming
I've always hated the idea of dress codes. As a teen, I felt like it was an assault on my personal freedom. Unlike the rebellious stereotype however, I wore as many layers as I could. I frequently wor...