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Retailers embrace body diversity like it’s NBD 23 Aug 2013 | 08:41 am
Recently, there has been an interesting spate of retailers using a diverse range of body types to model their clothing. An image from ModCloth’s Stylebook. It’s not like we haven’t seen this in the ...
Hand a girl a camera and the sexist media industry can start looking for the exit 21 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
Being critical towards media messages is vital, but at some point, we need to actually produce new material for when (not if) the sexist TV shows, movies, and commercials finally dissolve. This is the...
All bi-myself: bi-erasure in the media 19 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
About a month ago, I came across this article at Huffington Post. Disregard the actual article for a moment and check out the slideshow at the bottom: “Celebrity LGBT Families.” I clicked through the ...
App Camp For Girls: building confidence and iPhone apps 16 Aug 2013 | 08:15 am
App Camp for Girls is redefining the common image of a software developer. Step aside, guys. The new faces of software development are middle school girls. And the future will look a lot less typical....
Can we stop trying to define “real beauty?” 14 Aug 2013 | 08:13 am
Are some kinds of beauty more real than others? By now, we’re probably all familiar with Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign – in which the company showcases and celebrates “real bodies and real curves,” a...
Narcissism in numbers: what our sizes say about us 9 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
I’ve felt that all-too-familiar terror of walking into a store and wondering what size I’m going to be this time around, or worse, if anything will fit at all. The Economist’s research on size inflat...
Women of summer: a look at the summer movie lineup (present, past, and future) 7 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Summer is always a time for big blockbuster movies. Summer 2013 has the typical action movies and the typical lack of women. Women go to movies just as much as men, yet we don’t have as many character...
Fund this Kickstarter project! Slut: A Documentary Film 6 Aug 2013 | 02:19 am
“i love u also i want u to let me squeeze ur boobs.” Check out the video on The UnSlut Project’s Kickstarter page for more information. Another quote from Emily Lindin’s The UnSlut Project reels us ...
ESPN The Magazine: Are the women playing or just posing? 5 Aug 2013 | 08:24 am
A short paragraph about the physiological wonder of the human body opens ESPN The Magazine’s 2013 body issue. In this paragraph, the magazine calls all bodies spectacular specimens, especially the ath...
The BodyCon competition encourages advertisements that subvert the “ideal” body 4 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
The Butterfly Foundation in Sydney, Australia, a charity that supports people with eating disorders and negative body image, has created a new video competition that aims to expose the media’s represe...
