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Take Back The Beach
When The Fat-Shaming Comes From Your Own Mother
Donna Freydkin
Aug 16, 2017
Parenthood
The Lie I Told Myself About Disability & Having Kids
Kristen Parisi
Aug 15, 2017
Fashion
Why It Matters This Former
Vogue
Editor Took A Bikini Selfie
Channing Hargrove
Aug 14, 2017
Wellness
Yes, It Is Possible To Be Fat & Fashionable
Fat women are everywhere. We're writers and scientists, moms and teachers. And yes, even despite the overwhelming misconception that fat women cannot
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Kasandra Brabaw
Take Back The Beach
Why Do We Have Such Mixed Feelings About Muscle Tone?
When women come to a CrossFit workout for the first time, they tend to have one of two requests: “I don't want to get too bulky” or “
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Cory Stieg
Take Back The Beach
14 Mexican Women Share How They Really Feel About Their Bodies
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Sara Coughlin
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Wellness
Watch This Hilarious Video Of A Celeb Pointing Out Her "Imperfect...
If you follow the British version of The X Factor, you already know who Stacey Solomon is. For those who don't though, there's good reason to get
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Kasandra Brabaw
Take Back The Beach
11 Icelandic Women Open Up About Body Image
by
Sara Coughlin
Fashion
Fat Women Don't Get To Be Androgynous
Like many queer women my age, I got my first real unadulterated dose of what it meant to be androgynous through the character Shane from The L Word. At the
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Danielle Small
Pop Culture
Hilary Duff Takes Back The Beach With An Instagram Shutting Down ...
Body shamers can sit in the back row because Hilary Duff is not here for them. The Younger star took to Instagram to clap back at haters who have something
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Meagan Fredette
Wellness
Dear Men, Being Attracted To Curvy Women Does Not Make You Brave
Four days ago, Robbie Tripp wrote a letter to his curvy wife on Instagram. It starts with, “I love this woman and her curvy body,” and continue
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Kasandra Brabaw
Take Back The Beach
These Otherworldly Photos Will Change How You See Plus-Size Women...
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Sara Coughlin
Wellness
Body-Shaming Is Actually A Health Hazard
Body-shaming comes in all different forms — sometimes, it's the person commenting on your Instagram to call you fat as an insult, and sometimes it
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Kimberly Truong
Wellness
This Photo Nails The Way Women Criticize Their Bodies
For many of us, self-love can start with recognizing our strengths even if our flaws sometimes seem to outnumber them, and in a pair of side-by-side images
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Kimberly Truong
Fashion
H&M’s New Swim Section Is Under-$40 & On Fire
by
Ray Lowe
Body
This Sorority Brought #MelaninIllustrated To The Beach & It's Bea...
The women of Florida University's 2007 Delta Sigma Theta pledge class are the latest to show that the more "nude" options there are in fashion, the more re
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Amelia Edelman
Take Back The Beach
Fat Is Something You Have — Not Something You Are
I married a personal trainer. Generally, this would seem like a pretty awesome arrangement: a gym buddy for life, personalized gym routines at the ready, a
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Kimberly Rae Miller
Take Back The Beach
Why #BadPictureMonday Is The Hashtag We All Need
The other day, I made this really pretty toast. I try to go easy on the Instagram food porn, but this was an exceptionally pretty plate of spring-garlic to
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Kelsey Miller
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Beauty
This Artist Is Turning Stretch Marks Into Art — & It's AMAZING
The rainbow one is epic.
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Samantha Sasso
Wellness
More Than 900 "Violent, Abusive" Comments Were Left On A Woman's ...
Back in April, plus size blogger Callie Thorpe tweeted a British Vogue article in which she — along with the likes of Bella Hadid and Kendal Kardashian ?
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Kasandra Brabaw
Body
Misty Copeland Tells Us How She Tackles Body Positivity & Pressure
Misty Copeland isn't just a buzzy name anymore, she's an icon. In 2015, Copeland made history as the first African-American dancer to be promoted
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Cory Stieg
Wellness
What It Means To Be Trans & At The Beach In America
The two tools that got me through my earliest experiences of being a trans person on the beach were: 1) Alcohol and 2) Laura Dern. The first time, I was on
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Lia Clay
Take Back The Beach
The Upsetting Consequence Of Body-Shaming We Don't Talk About Enough
When we talk about Taking Back The Beach, it's easy to forget that young girls, as well as adult women, grapple with self-acceptance. Though we'd
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Rachel Selvin
Take Back The Beach
12 Photos That Will Make You Want To Vacation At A Nudist Camp (N...
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Sara Coughlin
Wellness
This Instagram Account Dismantles Assumptions About Who Belongs I...
Get excited, because we just found your new favorite body positive Instagram account. It's called Unlikely Hikers, @unlikelyhikers, and is run by a ba
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Kasandra Brabaw
Wellness
What This Woman's Children Taught Her About Her Body
Author and mother Jill Robbins has “always hated” her stomach — but it hasn't stopped her from “letting it all hang out” whe
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Kimberly Truong
Take Back The Beach
I Never Hated My Body — Until The Internet Told Me To Love It
By trying to fall in line with the body-positive movement, I’d only gotten as far as the body-noticing part. I could only see myself in bad light — the
by
Maria Del Russo
Take Back The Beach
The Myth Of The "Yoga Body"
So this feature was nearly finished, with a completely different lede, when a woman I had just met at a party asked what I did for a living. I explained th
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Lily Silverton
Wellness
Why We Still Need The Body Positivity Movement
This article was originally published on June 30, 2017. Every day brings a new sunrise — along with, it seems, a new Internet dissenter to body positivit
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Radhika Rajkumar
Wellness
Why One Woman Went From Being A "Bodybuilder To Body Lover"
When former bodybuilder Jolene Jones posted two side-by-side photos of herself on Facebook, she was well aware that they weren't your typical “t
by
Kimberly Truong
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