Who doesn’t find a part of their self-image or their mindset locked in a prison of some sort? Let Brooklyn Rapper Miss Eaves, Walt Whitman and the Venus of Willendorf break you out in time for summer.
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Annals of Healing: 30 Ways NOT to Say ‘Pussy’ + Tweeting REAL
Among the best responses to Donald Trump’s now infamous “Grab them by the pussy” are Samantha Bee’s brilliant riff on improvisional pussy slang and Kelly Oxford’s powerful twitter question. Both antidote shame.
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‘Soy Yo’: A Joyous Anthem of Personal Liberation
Soy Yo is an astonishing visual anthem about a young girl’s small powerful acts of personal expression and liberation. As she encounters a morning’s worth of possible “girl prisons” —humiliations and messages of ‘less than’ —, she navigates her way through them with aplomb. She is our new role model, and the music our wakeup call.
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Sleep Doc Wakes Up Nap Shamers
Being avid but somewhat guilty nappers, we were heartened by the research of Damien Leger that shows a well-timed snooze to be ESSENTIAL to good cognitive functioning. The key, he says, is to nap wisely, without shame.
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An Idaho Mom Defiantly Strips Down in an Idaho Market
Amy Pence-Brown, a 40-year-old Idaho mother of four and founder of the Boise Rad Fat Collective Facebook, stood stripped down to a bikini in a busy Boise market, blindfolded herself and invited people to write on her body. Her mission statement was scrawled in chalk on the board beside her: “I’m standing for anyone who has struggled…
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What Language Does Your Body Speak?
Artist Gracie Hagen’s project “Illusions of the Body” explored the distance between media-propagated imagery of men and women with impossibly pristine bodies, and the genuine very-imperfect reality of our own flesh. For us it had another, more powerful message.
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