Just The Way We Are
I decided to go on a raw foods diet. Mostly it sounds fine to me except it virtually excludes my favorite food groups: coffee, cheese and bread. Coffee, cheese, and fresh baked sourdough are such an intrinsic part of my diet that being without them for the last ten days has rendered me no […]
by Pauline Campos and Margaret Elysia Garcia The editors of Girl Body Pride wish you a very Happy New Year’s and a 2014 low on shame and high on pride. We decided to kick off the new year by sharing a joint post of resolutions to make our lives, the lives of our children, and […]
As I write this, my just turned 9 year old daughter is sleeping beside me, curled up and making sleep sounds. We are still in that post Christmas stupor and I’m feeling a bit strange that this was the first birthday and Christmas that the daughter wanted absolutely no toys whatsoever. Her list to Santa […]
I’ve been trying to write about just about anything else but the myth of Persephone and how she is haunting and nagging me this week. Full disclosure–I’m taking this great course in female archetypes. We’re in our second week and Persephone/Kore is the goddess manifestation we are thinking about this week. If you aren’t familiar with […]
The idea for this post has been germinating for a few weeks. It’s been a season of relentless fat shaming—from the Halloween letter in place of Halloween candy that turned out to be a hoax but not before Internet commenters everywhere voiced their two cents on fat America’s candy consumption to Lululemon founder and the fact that […]
Feminists, I venture to say, approach marriage with less blinders on than most women. At least this feminist woman did/does. I have high expectations of the men around me: remain yourselves, because I love you for yourselves. But at the same time, we all have to remain vigilant that gender roles and mundane societal expectations […]
So Sunday is/was the day we females are supposed to go without a bra for the day out of some publicity campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness . I realize we’ve known for quite awhile that underwire bras can contribute to breast cancer–many of us have made the switch, but a piece of metal close to one’s […]
It’s a weird week for news and not news news (do I sound like a horrible love child of Gertrude Stein and Donald Rumsfield? No? I should…). Syria is still a mess btw, we still have a small portion of our gerrymandered electorate holding the country hostage on our sixth day of government shutdown. But […]
In a couple of days Halloween season will be under way and with it the American fascination with sexing up toddlers to teens in inappropriate costumes. Last week the ‘Naught Leopard‘ costume for toddler girls thankfully sparked some controversy. Wal-mart is taking it off the shelves and apologizing for unintentional offensiveness. As many have been […]
On Friday night in conservative Orange County, CA in a town where black police helicopters use search lights on the beach goers, where white supremacists once reigned supreme something incredibly cool happened. A transgendered teen named Cassidy Campbell, 16, was crowned homecoming queen of her high school. That’s a major feat no matter how you […]
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