How to be beach body ready
Have a body. Take it to the beach This is the original Protein World ad. And this is one of a number of re-faced images. You guessed it, I like the second one much better. Really enjoying seeing the creative ways women around the world are messing with the original ad. Also love the slogan […]
Fat is not a feeling: Why I’m pressuring Facebook to remove body-shaming ‘I feel fat’ status
Fat talk perpetuates and normalises body shame Rebecca Guzelian How does it make you feel when someone close to you tells you they feel fat? As a woman in my mid-20s, this is something I experience every day – from my friends, family and others around me. And now, I have to see it on […]
Challenging the industries that breed body hatred: videos from Endangered Bodies conference
We must act personally and politically: MTR Laura McNally, Melinda Tankard Reist, Sarah McMahon Rick Kausman, Here’s some You Tube clips from the Endangered Bodies conference held in Sydney in August. I’m interviewed in the first, followed by a combination of speakers at the event, then Dr Rick Kausman, Susie Orbach and Sarah McMahon. Combination Dr Rick […]
Nothing tastes as bad as Lorna Jane co-opting pro anorexia slogan for ad campaign
Connecting beauty and self-denial: a dangerous approach to health and fitness Eating disorder experts are questioning an image on Lorna Jane’s Facebook of a young woman in exercise gear and with no body fat aside the wording: “Nothing tastes as good as fit feels”. The original slogan is a motto supermodel Kate Moss said in an […]
How Thinspiration Sites Hurt Us: recovering eating disorder teen speaks out
As a young woman in recovery, seeing others succumb to such behaviours is triggering, distressing and saddening Rebekah McAlinden Three years ago, if you had logged onto my computer and looked at my recent history, you would have discovered I frequently trawled through pro-eating disordered websites. There are communities of males and females of varying […]