December 2011
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Bike Ladies Unite!: Response to Thoughts Behind... →
Truly some of the most eloquent words I’ve ever read about why being asked to “empower” yourself with sexy photos is not cool.
bikeladiesunite:
Fixed gear freestyle rider and photographer Devan Mickell wrote and submitted this post in response to another tumblr user who criticized her aggressive refusal of a request from the Fix Fix Fix to do a shoot with her. You can read his...
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A challenge for the coming year: start calling...
Not ladies. Not girls. Not guys. WOMEN.
Seriously. Just try it. It might feel awkward sometimes. Folks may think you are talking about someone older, since we often associate being a woman with being an adult. But I’m about to turn 30 and everyone I know still calls most of the women around us girls, so I have no clue when we suddenly become old enough to be women. So for those that...
strangers.: Fat rant: →
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I have had a few ‘body positive’ blogs follow me recently and a few are quite lovely when they have their messages clear, it’s for big girls. But when a blog claims to love all bodies but they hate on skinny girls, it’s so stupid!! As a bigger girl I understand what it’s like to be judged by my…
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Who's missing from the American cultural...
I just finished reading the book Rethinking Thin, and it totally blew my mind. It’s not so much that I learned anything I didn’t know, but now I have science to back me up! Basically, study after study has shown that there is no permanent way to lose a great deal of weight- or that it’s even healthy to do so. Many people can lose weight, but most will gain the majority of it...
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