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Why Male Pregnancy Matters 26 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
By Sayantani DasGupta for Sociological Images The reproductive health police are at it again, and this time they’ve got the gender and sexuality cops with them. Despite the CDC reporting a decline in ...
Re-Touching the Consequences of Extreme Thinness 20 Aug 2013 | 02:42 am
by Lisa Wade, PhD, Sociological Images A former editor at Cosmopolitan, Leah Hardy, recently wrote an exposé about the practice of photoshopping models to hide the health and aesthetic costs of extrem...
Girls are Much More Than That: The Media and Stereotyping 13 Aug 2013 | 03:34 am
Editor’s Note: Adios Barbie along with editors Pia Guerrero and Sharon Haywood have joined the Brave Girls Want Alliance. We hope that by reading this post by our colleague Dr. Jennifer Shewmaker,...
Whitewashed Journalism: Why Do Only White-Passing Latinas Make it To Our Screens? 5 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
By Raquel Reichard The embarrassingly low number of Latinas hosting shows on English-language news networks or leading mainstream cable news programs can intimidate any Latina hoping to make a career ...
When We Were Free To Be: Revisiting A Classic 29 Jul 2013 | 11:48 pm
By Amy Jussel, Shaping Youth Last year marked not only the 40th Anniversary of Title IX changing women’s sports forever, it was also the 40th Anniversary of the cycle-breaking, movement-making pop cul...
A New Wrinkle on Old Research 22 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
By Susie P. Gonzalez Previous body image research has revealed the negative effects of “fat talk” in girls and young women, but new research by psychology professor Carolyn Black Becker of Trinity Uni...
The Real Bodies Manifesto: Finding Each Other 16 Jul 2013 | 12:32 am
A note from Thick Dumpling Skin’s co-founder, Lisa Lee: Almost a year ago, Retrofit Republic’s Community Heroes Lookbook landed on my radar. I drooled over this lookbook at my desk, and almost died of...
Hands Off: Tattoo Etiquette 1 Jul 2013 | 06:02 pm
By Melissa A. Fabello I’m tattooed. And by “I’m tattooed,” I don’t mean one or two or five or seven. I don’t mean that I’m tattooed in the #TeamTatted, finally-I-turned-eighteen-so-I-got-my-first-tatt...
Born This Way? How Sexual Orientation Does (And Doesn’t) Affect Body Image 27 Jun 2013 | 06:48 pm
By Allison Epstein “Obama Admin Funding $1.5 Million Study To Find Out Why Lesbians Are Fat” “Yes, Seinfeld, Gays Really Are Thinner, Study Says” “Lesbian Women Feel Less Pressure To Have A ‘Perfect’ ...
Fat, Trans, and (Working on) Being Fine With It 26 Jun 2013 | 05:44 am
By Mey DJneres One of the scariest things about the early steps of my transition was shopping for clothes. I wasn’t ready to go out in “girl mode,” and even if I was, I didn’t have the clothes to do s...
