Category: Body Positivity

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How to give kids good body image in the age of Snapchat

sudshr47 December 12, 2018

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Welcome to Small Humans, an ongoing series at Mashable that looks at how to take care of – and deal with – the kids in your life. Because Dr. Spock is nice and all, but it’s 2018 and we have the entire internet to contend with.

During a recent date night with my husband, my beloved babysitter let my 4-year-old daughter take a few (unpublished) pictures with a Snapchat filter that added blush and eyelashes while smoothing out her already blemish-free skin. My daughter was transfixed, and started referring to those pictures as “the pretty ones.” My jaw instantly dropped, as did my heart.  

“By age 4, children begin to compare themselves to others,” says Dr. Pam Roggeman, academic dean for the University of Phoenix College of Education. “There is now a new task added to the job of being a parent: teaching our kids to be critical viewers to help them develop an identity that is beyond their appearance.” Read more…

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Little Mix strip down and write slurs on their naked bodies

sudshr47 November 15, 2018

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British pop group Little Mix have sent a powerful message out to fans: love yourself.

The four band members — Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock — posed naked with words scrawled on their skin. Words like: slutty, ugly, fat, talentless, odd-looking, flabby, tart, and gobby. 

The image has been shared to promote the forthcoming single Strip — the video for which features body positivity activists like Bryony Gordon, Nimco Ali, and Hannah Witton. 

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This Instagram influencer started her own clothing line to promote body positivity

sudshr47 July 23, 2018

Ciera Rogers translated her Instagram popularity into a successful online clothing business Babes and Felines. The label features clothing for women with curvier body types that are often overlooked in the fashion industry.
Filmed at Cure Thrift Shop…

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Woman shares intimate Instagram to encourage new mums to embrace their post-pregnancy bodies

sudshr47 March 6, 2018

A British mum has shared an intimate Instagram photo of her post-pregnancy body in a bid to encourage other mums to embrace their bodies. 
Emily Marson from Wrexham, UK, posted a photo of herself four months after giving birth to twins via caesa…

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Body positivity isn’t enough. This book will teach you ‘radical’ self-love.

sudshr47 March 1, 2018

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Sonya Renee Taylor, an activist and poet who identifies as fat, black, and queer, refuses to apologize for her body. 

But she doesn’t want you to mistake her defiance for an abundance of self-esteem or self-confidence. Nor is it solely about body positivity, a movement that has empowered countless people but one that Taylor believes falls short of offering true liberation for everyone. 

Instead, Taylor champions radical self-love — the kind that helps people flat-out reject body shame of any kind. And Taylor persuasively offers that vision to the world in her new book, The Body Is Not Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love.  Read more…

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Aly Raisman’s ‘Sports Illustrated’ shoot is all about empowering women

sudshr47 February 13, 2018

Sports Illustrated’s 2018 Swimsuit Edition is here and the magazine ditched the swimsuits to focus on empowerment.
As part of an project called “In Her Own Words,” Sports Illustrated invited models and inspirational women like Olympic gymnast Aly Rai…

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Body Image Body Positivity Culture Plus Size Teens

Plus-size teen rocks dress she never thought she’d wear and the photos are so inspiring

sudshr47 February 13, 2018

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Friends can sometimes give us the little nudge we need to try something that we’ve lacked the confidence to do. 

Ashlie Bautista, 18, from Texas, USA, tweeted that her friends convinced her to wear a dress she never thought she’d wear. And, she ended up gaining some confidence in herself.  

“So last night, I wore something that I never thought I would wear,” wrote Bautista. “I’m very insecure but with the help of my amazing friends for hyping me up, I was able to wear it and gained a little bit more confidence in myself.” Read more…

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Women from tiny village pose nude to teach others about body image

sudshr47 January 30, 2018

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When it came time for Cathy Bartlett-Horwood to drop her dressing gown to the floor and stand naked in her village hall in front of her friends, she was nervous. The 60-year-old has had a complicated relationship with her weight for many years. She was so nervous, in fact, that she was physically sick beforehand.

Nevertheless, she persisted. Bartlett-Horwood became part of a group of brave women who’ve come to be known as the “Wonders of Whimple.” The “wonders” are thus-named because they posed naked in the village’s most scenic spots for a calendar celebrating the beauty of the village’s female population. Read more…

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Chrissy Teigen, queen of Twitter, has got women embracing their grey hair

sudshr47 January 23, 2018

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In the mire of dreadfulness that is Twitter, Chrissy Teigen is our one saving grace. 

And, her latest tweet has got women embracing a natural part of ageing that many of us try to cover up, pluck out, or dye out. 

Chrissy tweeted that she has a “skunk like streak of grey hair” and she’s “actually very into it.” 

“My Cruella dreams are coming true!”

I have a skunk like streak of grey hair and I’m actually very into it. My cruella dreams are coming true!

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 22, 2018 Read more…

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Plus-size tights ad takes ‘tone-deaf’ to new heights

sudshr47 December 9, 2017

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Companies, hello! Hope you are doing great. Here’s how not to advertise.

Wish, an e-commerce business that advertises heavily on Facebook (they’re behind some of the, uh, weirder ads you may have come across), is under fire this week for its product images for plus-size tights. Rather than featuring photos of plus-size models, Wish is advertising the tights with photos of thin models stretching them across their entire bodies.

As several people on social media have already pointed out, the ads are obviously and egregiously tone-deaf. Wish implies that advertising a product incorrectly — that is, in a manner in which it will never actually be used — is preferable to featuring a plus-size person on its website.  Read more…

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