Tag Archives: Beauty
“Mommy, I want to be white.”
TweetThis is the first in a series of guest posts from Dena Simmons, an activist, educator, and writer. See her bio after the jump. One morning two years ago, I did not have a ride to work. Instead, I had to take two buses like I did each day during my first year of teaching. [...]
Woman dies after illegal hotel room cosmetic surgery
TweetIt was reported yesterday that a woman named Claudia Sereye Aderotimi died in a Philadelphia after undergoing an illegal cosmetic surgery – an injection of a substance to her buttocks – in a hotel room near the Philly airport. According to the AP: Aderotimi, who lived in London but was not a British citizen, flew [...]
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The body image activist movement leaps forward in March
Tweet To all you Love Your Body Day student organizers, concerned parents, thoughtful professors, activists, advocates, survivors, fundraisers, writers, artists, actors, and musicians. To all you radical grandmas, doctors, therapists, sick-and-tired boyfriends and brothers, nutritionists, and newsmakers. To all you feminists–young, old, and in between… The time is now. Take back your body. Reimagine the [...]
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Happy 100th, Gypsy Rose Lee!
TweetThis weekend I went to a fabulous centennial birthday celebration at the New York Public Library for the burlesque icon, Gypsy Rose Lee. It coincided with the release of the biography, American Rose, which explores some of the darker side of Gypsy’s life. The world-famous musical turned film portrayed some of the rosier, glamorous and [...]
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Want to be taken seriously ladies? Wear make-up!