Forever21 Taps Ashley Graham For Its Debut Plus-Size Activewear Line
The brand announced its new collection of plus-size activewear, and tapped a familiar face for the reveal: model Ashley Graham, who recently made the cut for Forbes’ 30 Under 30.
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The Honest Body Project is showing what the faces of anxiety and depression really look like
As the founder of the Honest Body Project, a body-positive photo series, photographer Natalie McCain is trying to put a face to an invisible disease. Each photo includes a powerful caption from the subject, opening up about their struggle.
These photos are a part of “Self Revealed” The Naked Photography Project. For over a year Photographer Elizabeth Sanjuan continues to photograph over 100 women, giving women of all ages, race, and size the opportunity to express and validate beauty on their terms.
The exhibit will have it’s opening reception on January 9, 2016 at Gallery 2014 in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Created by Wear Your Voice Magazine, #BeyondBeauty is a campaign that hopes to challenge brands that promote body positivity to include a more diverse range of women in their advertisements. #BeyondBeauty is urging body-positive campaigns such as Dove’s Real Beauty and Lane Bryant’s #PlusIsEqual to include an even more diverse range of women.
Head over to Wear Your Voice to learn more about the #BeyondBeauty campaign.
i love this so much!
Look at all this actual diversity n shit!
Some Reasons Why I Love Being Fat by Laura Lewis
so cute
so much truth
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This fall JCPenney is celebrating real women in our communities who are leading the way, their way.
Some illustrations showing that freedom and self-expression are not privileges of the young.
Don’t hide their perceived flaws ‘You don’t have stretch marks!’ ‘you’re not fat!’
- PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF WHEN THEIR BODY CHANGES, AND WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE. And lying just makes it seem like these parts of their body must be shameful or else why would you want to pretend they aren’t there? Accept them. ‘I love you stretch marks~’ ‘Your belly is so cute!’ etc
If your partner doesn’t want you to touch them in certain areas
- FUCKING DON’T
If your partner does want affection and is okay with you touching them in the areas they feel insecure about,
- Focus on those areas, lightly touch them, kiss them, say how beautiful every inch of them is.
If your partner wants to change their appearance
- MAKE IT CLEAR THAT ITS THEIR HAPPINESS THAT IS IMPORTANT AND NOT THEIR APPEARANCE. If a hair cut, weight change, tattoo, whatever, will make them happy, support it.
When they speak badly about themselves
- Listen to them, but also enforce how you see them. Look in the mirror with them, talk about their appearance. Let them see how much you glow just talking about how beautiful they are. They need more voices in their head that aren’t negative. Also never sound tired of it, never roll your eyes when they talk about their issues, because that will just make them feel like their insecurities are a burden and won’t share them with you and will suffer in silence.
When you bring up someone else whose beautiful, don’t compare them if they are complete opposites
- Don’t tell someone who looks nothing like some model you’re into, that they do look like them. Enforce that yes, this other person is beautiful, but so is your partner.
It takes time
- Everyone has good days and bad days. You’re not going to ‘fix’ them, they aren’t broken. This isn’t going to magically make them feel 100% about their body all the time. This is about making someone feel comfortable in their skin,
