The Body Image Site for Every Body
by Melanie Klein Originally posted at Elephant Journal, June 2010. "Feminism, Body Image and Yoga" is featured in the newly available, downloadable and free, Curvy Voices, a collection of 36 personal body-loving stories at Curvy Yoga. This post is also the inspiration for her chapter in the forthcoming anthology, 21st Century … [Read more...]
By Pia Guerrero, Co-Founder/Editor As most of you know, after being pounded in them media over speculation that her puffy face was a sign of bad plastic surgery that made her ugly not more attractive, Ashley Judd slammed the media for upholding patriarchy and for perpetuating sexism, misogyny and objectification. When I … [Read more...]
Introduction by Pia Guerrero, Co-Founder/Editor The Hunger Games and Genderless Storytelling, cross-posted with permission from SheHeroes By now you're all aware of the racist tweets that began popping up after the premiere of the movie, The Hunger Games, based on the tween/teen book of the same title by Suzanne Collins. … [Read more...]
By Pia Guerrero, Co-Founder/Editor A couple weeks ago I re-posted, via a friend, a similar statement to the one below on the Adios Barbie Facebook page: "Mattel should make a Barbie with no hair so that every little girl fighting cancer feels beautiful!! The wish for this petition is that the Barbie is also named Hope and a … [Read more...]
By Melanie Klein This post is an excerpt from Melanie Klein's chapter, "How Yoga Makes You Pretty: The Beauty Myth, Yoga and Me" in the forthcoming anthology, 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics and Practice, available May 1, 2012 (pre-order here). An earlier version of this post was originally published at Elephant Journal … [Read more...]
By Tami Winfrey Harris Originally posted at What Tami Said. Updated for Adios Barbie. When I smile, I get this little pocket under each eye. It's a little puffy bag made more noticeable, I think, because my eyes are very small. I didn't notice this particular little facial quirk until I was in my early 30s. But if you notice, … [Read more...]
By Melanie Klein Originally posted at Feminist Fatale. Updated for Elephant Journal and Adios Barbie. I'm pregnant but I just feel fat. I can’t believe I said it – not once, not twice but repeatedly throughout my entire pregnancy. I started to feel that way at the beginning of my first trimester and it continued … [Read more...]
By Pia Guerrero, Co-Founder/Editor My step-mother, Maria, and my dad have had a 20+ year running joke. Somehow or other the subject of beauty and make-up arises over the dinner table every time I visit. My dad in all the flamboyant words and gestures that the Spanish language allows exclaims how he would rather die than 'let' … [Read more...]
By Tami Winfrey Harris Scene in question begins at 4:56. ***2/12 DOWNTON ABBEY SPOILERS AHEAD... Women are disproportionately judged by narrow beauty standards. Witness how in Sunday night's pre-Grammy profile of Adele, 60 Minutes felt obliged to mention that the singer doesn't have "runway model looks." The show made … [Read more...]
by Jennifer Jonassen WARNING CHUBBY KIDS MAY NOT OUTLIVE THEIR PARENTS. This is only one of the incendiary campaign slogans Strong4Life is admittedly using to shock parents into putting their children on diets. Other slogans include: WARNING FAT PREVENTION STARTS AT HOME. AND THE BUFFET LINE and WARNING ITS HARD TO BE A … [Read more...]
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