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Can Women Have It All?

October 10, 2012

It’s the ubiquitous, age-old question that I have avoided answering for years. A cliché offshoot of the feminist movement, “having it all” was another way we yelled I am woman, hear me roar. The reason I avoided the question is because it implies an assumption that there is one universal definition to all women of [...]

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Project Real: What Have You Learned About Yourself This Year?

September 24, 2012

At the beginning of the year, Curvy Girl Guide decided to reinvent the resolution. It was our spin on making tired old resolutions that, more often than not, left us crying in our eggnog at year-end, waistbands snug as ever, feeling defeated and broken. Instead, we wanted to focus on the positive things we planned [...]

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Reality Shows That Need to End

September 4, 2012

In 1992, I filled out a 26 page application and video taped an interview (real VHS, folks) in hopes of being one of the next seven strangers, picked to live in a house, work together and have their lives taped, to find out what happens when people stop being polite… and start getting real. Needless to [...]

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Albums to Cure Your Need For 90s Nostalgia

August 14, 2012

In college, I gave my best shot at growing dread locks, but only lasted two weeks without washing my hair until my roommates threatened to kick me out.  I was guilty of wearing men’s Levi’s from the used jean shop on campus (approximately two sizes too large), flannel shirts, and Doc Martens, pretty much daily. [...]

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I Won’t Disappear

August 7, 2012

Breaking cycles is a hard thing to do. My parents divorced when I was ten and, though the overwhelming sigh of relief that came over our house after the divorce was refreshing, certainly, no one enters into marriage to fail. My parents married young, still teenagers. My dad was an alcoholic and at the core of [...]

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14 Favorite Tear-Jerker Movies. Pass the Tissues.

July 25, 2012

To say I’m an emotional person, would be an understatement. Melodramatic, sentimental, bleeding heart might be a better description. I’ve been known to “get something in my eye” when Sarah McLaughlin’s, “Angel” haunts over shots of  wounded and mistreated cats and dogs and still get misty-eyed and chills just thinking about Peter coming home for [...]

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Seventeen Magazine Vows Change, Is It Enough?

July 9, 2012

Real women and girls everywhere are claiming one more victory in their campaign against unhealthy and unrealistic images as being standard in the media. Seventeen Magazine has joined what seems to be a growing grassroots drive towards authenticating what women truly look like and what is represented on the pages of magazines and other forms of [...]

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Groundbreaking Film Pioneer, Nora Ephron, Dies at 71

June 27, 2012

Sobering news of the passing of Nora Ephron, 71, made headlines yesterday. She was truly a woman pioneer in the literary arts. Writer, director, and journalist, Ephron’s name is synonymous with the romantic comedy as we know it today. Specifically, the heroines. It’s more than just her having been one of the first women to [...]

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Reviewing “The Weight Of The Nation”

May 31, 2012

This week I sat down to watch HBO’s The Weight of the Nation, a highly publicized documentary being called “groundbreaking” and “bold” about the United States’ obesity epidemic. I love me a documentary and was looking forward to this one. As the editor of the Self/Body section for Curvy Girl Guide that’s mission is to [...]

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Thin Privilege: Does It Exist?

May 30, 2012

Thin privilege is a term used to describe the advantages and benefits that come with being thin. The thought is that it is generally easier to be thin and accepted in our society. There is some debate of whether thin privilege exists. Eighteen years ago I would have passionately debated my stance that it was [...]

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