If You're Not Angry, You're Not Paying Attention

What else can I say but "FUCK THIS!"

This is a blog about the ever-elusive idea of beauty which has fascinated me since I was little. I started this blog to be comprised mainly of shining a light on bullshit photoshopped images of "beauty" that are circulated for the public's consumption. However, I will also be incorporating images/text/lyrics/
poetry/essays/songs, etc. about alternative forms of beauty and what you and I think is beautiful.

I love to hear from people so please feel free to write to me if it all becomes to much and you need to vent/share -- taviajane@gmail.com

Stand up and join this bitch march if you're sick of seeing already beautiful people massacred and trotted out in an ever-growing beauty pagent, set to a death march that claims millions in eating- disordered deaths, suicides, and self-hatred because no magazine comes with the warning:

"ATTENTION consumers, images may be rendered unrecognizable and thereby do not imply that you should ever attempt to become what you see!"

Submit your own rant/story/picture(s):
taviajane@gmail.com

[Not to get all crystal-gripping-hippie on you, but chances are you're a hot piece JUST THE WAY YOU ARE]
October 31
“ …every day, the news brings dozens of new exhortations to lose weight in order not only to prevent your own early demise, but to lift the burden on our health care system and restore America’s glory. For all but the thinnest of us, weight loss is cast not merely as a potential step toward better personal health but a moral obligation to society, to your children, to your partner, and to people who don’t want to sit next to a fatty on the subway.

Girls And Body Image: It’s Apparently Worse Than Ever - 4th graders and body image - Jezebel

This article bums me out, and hits close to home. For the record, it’s not JUST an American thing; it’s global. And it sucks. It needs to change, but how?

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