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		<title>The Gendering of Food: You are what you eat!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Elizabeth Ganley-Roper “Oh yes, I’m a guy  I’ll admit I’ve been fed quiche Wave tofu bye-bye, now it’s for Whopper beef I reach  I will eat this meat, ‘till my innie turns into an outtie I am starved I am incorrigible and I need to scarf a burger beef bacon jalapeño good thing down!” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You an Ugly or a Pretty? Technology, Nature, and Beauty in Scott Westerfeld’s &#8220;Uglies&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/are-you-an-ugly-or-a-pretty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Octavia Butler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plastic Surgery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scott Westerfield]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sayantani DasGupta What if everyone was beautiful? No, I don’t mean inner beauty, prettiness that shines from the inside out. I mean, wide eyes, perfect noses, proportionate bodies, and symmetrical faces. The same approximate height, weight, skin color? Could making everyone look the same even the social and economic playing fields? But human variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Online Feminism Must Learn From Racial Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bell hooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Pia Guerrero Twelve years ago, I was doing social justice work through a community engagement project in a 10th grade class in San Francisco. The class consisted of kids from the Mission District and Bayview Hunter’s Point. Mission District at the time was a vibrant Latino community and a hot zone for gang activity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Hunger Games: Unlearning a Lifetime of Habits and Societal Norms with Intuitive Eating</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breaking Free from Emotional Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elyse Resch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evelyn Tribole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fat is a Feminist Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geneen Roth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intuitive eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susie Orbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When Food is Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women Food and God]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Kusler Since I sat down 30 or 40 minutes ago to prepare for writing this post, I have been distracted not only by adorable cat pictures and Facebook, but also by my appetite. Twice, I’ve gotten up and made it as far as my bedroom door before deciding it’s not quite dinner time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fat Black Women Feel Good and That&#8217;s a Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Size & Weight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[applied research in Quality of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tami Winfrey Harris Here is exhibit thirtyleventybillion of how the positive attributes of black women are twisted, folded and rejiggered to be negative through a racist and sexist lens. From the Huffington Post: Whether rooted in the old &#8220;big boned&#8221; theory or a reluctance to work out for beauty sake, researchers say that black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regenerating Hymens and Bloody Sheets: What’s Really Going On Down There?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science, Health and Research]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hymen reconstruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I Was A Teenage Feminist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Therese Shechter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Therese Shechter A few months ago at a dinner party, the topic of hymens came up (don’t all your dinner parties go like this?) and how on rare occasions the membrane is completely sealed and has to be surgically opened. One of the men there wondered how the condition could go unnoticed, seeing as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Cho on the Power of Reclaiming Beauty</title>
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		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/margaret-cho-on-drop-dead-diva-and-the-power-of-reclaiming-beauty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Body Bandits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Contributor Marianne Schnall, originally posted on Feminist.com Editor&#8217;s Note: We&#8217;ve pulled from the vault this 2009 interview with Margaret Cho where she candidly talks about weight, beauty, body image and show business. Margaret Cho is currently starring in the new, critically acclaimed series Drop Dead Diva which premiered on July 12th on Lifetime. Drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Up with the Super Skinny Demonic Pregnancy in &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/whats-up-with-the-super-skinny-demonic-pregnancy-in-breaking-dawn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/whats-up-with-the-super-skinny-demonic-pregnancy-in-breaking-dawn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anorexia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sayantani DasGupta If you have been, say, living in outer space, in some kind of a no-media cult, or simply in possession of particularly discriminating taste, and have not seen the Twilight films, or read Stephanie Meyer’s books, then, before you read this post, I respectfully send you to these superlative examples of feline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Choose Love Project: Inspiring Words of Wisdom to Love Ourselves</title>
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		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/the-choose-love-project-inspiring-words-of-wisdom-to-our-selves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self-Esteem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It Get's Better Campaign]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spirit Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Choose Love Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, on a flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles I picked up Southwest Airlines&#8217; inflight magazine, Spirit, and was moved by what I found inside. Several celebrities and entertainers published letters filled with wishes, knowledge, comfort, and advice to their younger selves. Seth Green, Rita Rudner and Bill T. Jones all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Plan B Move Gets an F From Us</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/obamas-plan-b-move-gets-an-f-from-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/obamas-plan-b-move-gets-an-f-from-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science, Health and Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergency contraception]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ashley-Michelle Papon Once again, stunned women found themselves to be the sacrificial lambs to the slaughter after the shocking decision by the Obama administration to restrict the sale of the morning-after pill to minors in the U.S., overriding an earlier recommendation by the Food and Drug Administration to increase access. Although Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary [...]]]></description>
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