We were knocked out by an eleven-year-old’s evocative description of returning her Barbie to a clean slate through the mightily therapeutic act of “reconstruction”.
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Mira Keras Calls Out Fat Shaming + Celebrates REAL Bodies
When Instagram banned the hashtag #curvy, making it no longer searchable on the site, it caused a huge uproar. Other words having to do with body image —”skinny“, “fat“, and “thin“— were allowed. #curvy, an active ad hoc community on Instagram, allowed women of all shapes and sizes to affirm their beauty. The backlash was so…
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Embrace Your Body, Change Your Life
I’m betting that one thing we all could use is a Get Out Of Jail card to help us learn how to love our bodies – just as they are. I’m also wagering you may be asking yourself, as I did: why is this woman on the right smiling? What’s wrong with her?
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identity crisis: 5-years of one man’s “looks” + our own
This stop-action video tracking 5 years of one man’s appearance makes us wonder how much how we look, and what our style is, affects our experience and identity…And the many choices we can make about our appearance.
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