Tag Archives: eating disorders
Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet
Tweet If you haven’t yet, go read @ClinicEscort‘s account of explaining the importance of abortion rights to an Amtrak-full of students heading home from Saturday’s “March for Uterine Conscription” (scroll down to January 26). The NYT on the BS lawsuits challenging religious groups’ responsibility to provide insurance that covers birth control under the new health [...]
Also tagged birth control, Clinic Escort, Contraception, daily feminist cheat sheet, discrimination, Downton Abbey, healthcare, Hillary Clinton, maternal health, Mean Girls, Obama, pay discrimination, Queer Rights, Tina Fey Comments closed
Erin Matson weighs in on eating disorders and pregnancy, kicks ass
TweetErin Matson, baller feminist advocate and organizer and former vice president of action for the National Organization for Women, is pregnant. BABY FEMINIST ON ITS WAY, wahooooooooo! Matson is also an eating disorder survivor. Being pregnant with a history of an eating disorder can make things… complicated, even for Matson, who has been completely recovered [...]
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80% of 10-year-old girls in the U.S. say they’ve been on a diet
TweetTell me there’s not something seriously fucking wrong with this fact. This is just one of many that have compelled Miss Representation, SPARK, Endangered Bodies and other organizations to host a 3-day long challenge to encourage the public to push women’s and girl’s magazines to take accountability for their direct impact on the epidemic of [...]
Also tagged Body Image, Girls, Magazines, Media, self-esteem, women, youth Comments closed
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