By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Photos of the Day: 30 butts

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(Photo credit: David Brandon Geeting)

You may have heard that the cultural authorities at Vogue have decided it’s the “official era of the big booty.” You, like many on Black Twitter who quickly shot down that idea, may have been confused by the revelation that big booties are a recent invention. You may have been surprised to learn that a body part, which has come in all shapes and sizes since the beginning of humanity, could be a trend at all. 

Believing that all butts should be celebrated “all the time,” Refinery29 put together a slideshow of 30 unphotoshopped butts, along with some reflections from the women they belong to. (My favorite: “I have no comment about my butt.”) So there ya go–a refresher course on the great diversity of butts in the wild, which, given the culture we live in, you’d be forgiven for needing every now and again.

NSFW if you work at some awful butt-negative place.

St. Paul, MN

Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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