Tag Archives: beauty standards
Beauty and the media
TweetThink about your idea of beauty. Is it a full-bodied girl with a little bit of chubbiness around the hips? Or maybe a boy with muscles like rocks? A girl who can fit into size 00 clothes? In all likelihood, your idea of beauty comes from the media. And right now, that means skinny. Skinny [...]
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On fatshion
Tweet I just finished the book my Mom gave my for my birthday, a book I’ve really been looking forward to reading, Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girl on Life, Love, & Fashion edited by Virgi Tovar. I became aware of Fat Activism in a class I took my last semester of college called Women [...]
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The invisible woman: Part 1
Tweet“What am I if I’m not sexually attractive – am I anything?” ~Ella Dreyfus Aging is terrifying! I have to tell you, the older I get, the crueler the whole thing seems. It’s that evil bastard, time. It just goes too fast. I hadn’t thought about it much until recently, I guess I’ve been on [...]
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Pink sequined tutus: The gendering of dance
TweetOriginally posted at The Feminist Anthropologist. This past weekend was the first time in fifteen years or so that I have been in the audience of a dance performance. I have been a dancer since I could walk, though I have always had a frayed relationship with the activity that demanded so much of my [...]
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“It’s just a harmless advertisement”: On liposuction, media, and perpetuation of sexism