Just The Way We Are
Girl Body Pride is coming up on a birthday. To celebrate, we are taking a moment to showcase our favorite submissions from guest writers and contributions from our regular team. Do you have a favorite you’d like to see here? Send me an email at . Julia Cowan Roberts originally published My Body Propels Me [...]
Certainly by know you’ve heard that co-founder of Reddit, creator of the RSS feed at age 14, and Internet activist Aaron Swartz, committed suicide. The news hit me hard, as news of people committing suicide always does. Especially young people. It was the same week that I dug into Amanda Todd’s story. If you have time, watch [...]
“But you’re squishy.” Those were the words my daughter said to me several years ago after an encounter with someone we don’t see too often. This person, who is probably a size 6 or 8, made a comment in front of my family about how fat she was. So, I reasoned internally, what do my [...]
Throughout my childhood (in cold Minnesota weather, no less) I was an active kid. I lived across the street from a huge park and it was back in the day when we would leave the house for the day and only come back for food. There was a public recreation center, a playground and a wading [...]
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