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What does your relationship with Barbie look like?
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Beauty
A few quick words on my essay about Vogue’s Era of the Big Booty article, and erasure of black women’s contributions to beauty at large.
Revisiting the idea of “dating while overweight,” and what I learned from the debate that ensued.
After writing so much about retouched pics of women, let’s talk about surgery…
“What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul.”
Thigh Gaps: Dangerous Obsession, Healthy Perspective, and Learning (and Loving) Your Hips
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
Demystifying the “thigh gap,” and what you need to know about this disturbing new trend.
All that glitters ain’t gold, y’all.
How a woman went from fitspo photo to celebrity overnight.
Video Vault: Singer’s Video Demonstrates How Fake Music Videos Can Truly Be
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
Watch a video editor in the process of turning a drab video into a full-glam shoot. It’s The Photoshop Diet on steroids.
I remember high school. I’d pretty much prefer to forget, honestly. I can say that I enjoyed my years, there. I was entrenched in the music department, lived in the …
What shame is, what it does, and how to fight it on your own.
Today, you will look at this botched photoshop job…and laugh. Heartily.
Saw this on TakePart, and thought it was wonderful… so I needed to share: Photographer Jade Beall never believed she lived up to traditional standards of beauty. And so when …
“‘Maybe your grades will get you somewhere one day, because your looks sure won’t.’ That was probably the best motivation I could have had.”
“If They Hadn’t Told Me I Was Ugly, I Never Would Have Searched for My Beauty”
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
“…And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn’t have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn’t told me I was ugly, I never would …
What if you swapped your hair with your body in your list of priorities? This wouldn’t even be an issue then, would it?
“I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen grown women fall into a compliment fest because neither one knew how to take a compliment, or how to deliver …
Why is it that the plus sized community keeps getting “shelved?”
Ten…or fourteen…reasons why the BMI is absolute trash.
“That’s something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves.”