body image

One of the most pernicious things women and girls face is the constant discussion and denigration of our bodies. Who ISN'T concerned with what our daughters are absorbing about their bodies and their worth in our diseased culture? Which is why I loved this video of Amy Poehler on body image. Here'... Read More

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Some pretty crazy news surfaced last week about H&M's policy of using the same digitally altered model's body over and over. Apparently, H&M has been just changing the head of the model and altering the color of the digitally rendered body to make a composite person to model clothes. Those m... Read More

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“Why is your chin like that, a preschooler asked my 87-year-old-mother, who came to visit our class. My mother said, “I don’t know how to answer that.” (She has droopy skin on her neck.) On a previous visit, a little girl had asked her, “Why did you get so old?” Inside, my mother doesn�... Read More

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