Teen Petitions for Plus Size Princess
Jewel Moore is an amazing seventeen-year-old girl from Farmville, Virginia with an interesting request for Disney: create a princess with some curves. Through her online petition, Moore hopes to gain enough attention so that Disney will take notice. So far the petition has 27,000 signatures and rising, while there still is no response from Disney on the suggestion. Moore’s argument has a solid case in my opinion. With the introduction of the first African American princess Tiana in the Princess and the Frog in 2009 and 2012’s Brave which depicted…
What Real Women Look Like After Giving Birth
I absolutely love this post on BabyZone that shows what a “real” women looks like after giving birth. Author Tracy Brennan said she was inspired to share her after-birth photo after seeing an image that celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe posted to her twitter. Sporting a fashionable hospital gown and a red carpet ready face, Zoe is just one of the many celebrities who have shared a “perfect” after-birth photo. We are flooded with so many images of famous women with their newborns looking flawless (thanks to Photoshop) and being able…
The Most Beautiful Lady Parts Ever
I’m a huge supporter of lady parts and I’m pretty vocal about it. Whether it’s from showing (sometimes unexpecting) friends my I’ll Show You Mine book (yup – more on this later) to researching ways to fight female genital mutilation, I consider myself a lover and defender of them all. And ladies, I’m going to let you in on a secret that no one in the adult film or cosmetic surgery industry wants you to know: your vagina is perfectly normal and absolutely gorgeous! Vaginas come in all different shapes, colors, sizes and…
Photographer’s Provocative Series Challenges What “Attractive” Means To Viewers
What makes someone “attractive?” As we become more and more saturated with media-propagated imagery, people are starting to push back and question why there is only one standard of beauty. One artist, Gracie Hagen, has created an amazing project addressing the root of “attractive”. In an effort to explore the unrealistic images in the media in comparison to the reality of real human flesh, Gracie has produced a photo series called “Illusions of the Body.” For the project, Gracie recruited women and a few men of varying shapes and sizes and photographed them…
Google shows us exactly why we still need feminism
You can find out anything you want to know on Google – and the ads above will show you why we still need feminism. This is proof that sexism and misogyny are still running rampant in our culture. Just do a quick Google search yourself, and let the world’s largest search engine remind you that women are still not viewed as equals. The ads you see above are from a campaign for UN Women by creative team Memac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai. The ads are meant to show that gender prejudice is still a major…
