Just The Way We Are
I have a confession to make. My career and passion is in the beauty business. I manage a salon and retail shop. But that’s not the confession.For most of my life I thought I was ugly. I used to be the girl who thought I was too ugly to get my picture taken. I [...]
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 [...]
by C.J. Redwine One of the questions I get asked most often at signings is why I chose to regress women’s rights in the city-state of Baalboden in DEFIANCE. I’ve heard everything from anger that I would regress women’s rights to fascinated interest in looking at a society where girls are treated like property and are [...]
In a recent email exchange with a certain family member about mental health (ok, my mental health), it didn’t take long before finding myself in familiar and somewhat frustrating territory. With feeble attempts to illustrate how clinical depression is so much more than just “having the blues”, I Googled articles on the subject, forwarding anything I could find [...]
By Tanis Miller I’ve written a blog post every day this week and deleted all but one of them. I’ve written about the public breakdown I had after Knox’s wheelchair collapsed in the middle of the street and no one offered to help me fix it. I’ve written about how some arsehole didn’t hold [...]
Recently, Dove released a well-produced, very moving extended advertisement called “Real Beauty Sketches,” which at the time of this writing had just over 26 million views on YouTube. The video doesn’t advertise any particular product; rather, it documents a project in which Dove hired a trained forensic artist to sketch women as they described themselves. [...]
By: Holly M. Thatcher, MD Is it healthier to be pleasantly plump? Or should you skip all desserts and work out twice a day to be a ‘lean-iac’? No sooner did many of us make resolutions to exercise more, eat less, and either lose weight or vow to at least not gain weight in the [...]
I have mental illness. Before motherhood, major depression and anxiety. After the kids came, things have started to look quite a bit like bipolar 2. I’ve struggled with self-worth and body image issues for years and suffered through bouts of terribly low motivation and lack of drive. I’ve even been suicidal. But today, I’m glad [...]
by Jenna Glatzer If you’ve missed the hoopla, here’s the abridged version: A 16-year-old girl got very drunk at a party. While she was unconscious, two boys at the party raped her, and more than a dozen party-goers watched, took pictures and videos, bribed each other to urinate on her, joked about it on [...]
I have been many shapes and sizes throughout my life. Fat kid no-one wanted on their team. Superskinny teenager who smoked and starved herself thin. Pushing a size 14 (UK sizes) in my 20s. Boyfriend troubles returning me to skinnydom in time for my 30s. Soon followed by marriage (not to the boyfriend) then children [...]
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