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WMC News & Features
January 24, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Body image and body standards, Health
Corporate America finally accepts that women bleed red

A new ad campaign from feminine hygiene brand Kotex has decided that using blue liquid to demonstrate the efficacy of its menstruation products in commercials is outdated and, well, absurd.

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January 03, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Body image and body standards
Victoria’s Secret models are skinnier than ever—as average U.S. dress size has gone up

Victoria’s Secret is still busy making life for women and girls about being their thinnest possible selves.

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September 28, 2018 | Asha French | Arts and culture, Body image and body standards
What was lost in Nappily Ever After’s journey from book to film

Writer Asha French adds some missing context to the journey to self-acceptance shown in the Netflix movie.

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April 27, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Body image and body standards, Health, Politics
Tennessee set to establish anti-choice monument on State Capitol grounds

A monument dedicated to “victims of abortion” is one step closer to being built on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol.

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April 12, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Body image and body standards, Girls
Student forced to cover nipples with Band-Aids organizes #bracott

On April 2, Lizzy Martinez, 17, was pulled from her fifth-period class at Braden River High School, in Bradenton, Florida and sent to the dean’s office—because her nipples were allegedly “distracting” other students.

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February 08, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Body image and body standards, Health, Politics
Male Arizona legislators stuck in the Dark Ages as women advocate for free prison sanitary products

As women used words like “menstruation” and “heavy flow” while describing the humiliating and degrading experience of having insufficient sanitary products in prison, the nine, all-male members of the Arizona legislature’s Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs bristled and shifted in their seats.

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April 22, 2016 | Kathleen Downes | Body image and body standards, Disability, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
The power of holding hands

The author, a disability activist, shares an insight from the “sisterhood of disability”—that handholding between friends is not just for children.


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