Take it from Jo(e)

Appropriately on Love Your Body Day, Jo(e) writes about her annual weekend with women friends in the mountains. Part of their tradition is the naked photo. The essay and image are awe-inspiring.

Those Naked Women:
Within seconds, I had left my clothes in a pile and was perched on a rock outcropping, [...]

Love Your Body Day

It’s sad that we need a special day to remind us, but today is Love Your Body Day, sponsored by the NOW Foundation. For those of us who struggle with body image, it’s a day to shrug off societal standards of beauty, as well as our own, often unrealistic, expectations. It’s a time [...]

Language matters

I’ve talked before about my unease with the word vajayjay. But it’s not just women’s phrases that bother me. One I’ve been hearing lately drives me nuts and makes me sad at the same time - boys/men referring to their genitals as their “junk.” It seems to be particularly popular among the [...]

A children’s guide to nip, tuck

I’ve had this story from Newsweek open in my browser since it first came across my Bloglines on Tuesday, unsure of how to approach it. I have serious body image problems and while intellectually I reject the idea that women must erase imperfections and signs of aging to be considered attractive, on an emotional [...]