Everyday Isms

Miss Vogue Hits UK Shelves

by Georgia Luckhurst When I heard about the launch of the new Miss Vogue magazine in the UK, I was instantly both excited and nervous.  For a magazine lover like myself, a British version of Teen Vogue is long overdue.  However, there were worries – was Miss Vogue going to perpetuate those endless, unattainable body…

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Girls of All Ages Need Access to Emergency Contraception

by Anya Josephs There’s a medicine that, in half a century of use, has been linked to a grand total of zero deaths or serious complications. It’s safer than aspirin. Physicians willingly admit that their advice is not needed for it to be taken correctly. The largest organization of pediatricians in the nation is urging…

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Real Beauty, Real Talk: the SPARKteam Responds to Dove's Latest Campaign

Have you seen Dove’s latest “Real Beauty” campaign? It’s been making the rounds and causing quite a stir: The video, which shows women describing themselves as ugly and then other people describing them as beautiful, leading up to a big reveal where we all realize that we are our own worst enemy, is drawing both…

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Feminist Reads Challenge: Out of Darkness Comes Light

This post is part of the 2013 Feminist Reads Challenge. To learn more about the challenge or join in, click here.  by Dee Putri I was born on April 21st. Here in Indonesia, that’s Hari Kartini (Kartini’s Day),  a celebration of the day Kartini was born. Who is Kartini? Her full name is Raden Ajeng…

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Bright Like a Diamond, White Like a Princess

by Shavon L. McKinstry In recent years, Disney has been toying around with their “Princess” brand, making their popular films and characters even more marketable to children–namely, to young girls. This isn’t really new: Disney has changed the designs of their princesses to fit with market trends numerous times since the first princess, Snow White,…

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Photoshopping Women to Be Bigger is Missing the Point

by Dee Putri Karlie Kloss, an American model, has been something of a poster child for the debate on “keeping it real” in magazines. Kloss’s nude photos in Vogue Italia have been posted on pro-ana (pro-anorexia) and thinspiration blogs (as we know, these sites are very dangerous!). So, Numéro magazine (maybe having learned something?) airbrushed out Kloss’s…

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The Straight and the Narrow

by Jasmine White Sometimes I look at the pieces of my chemically-straightened hair that are scattered around my bathroom floor, and I wonder what it would be like if things were different. What if relaxers were never invented? What if having afro-kinky hair was okay? I’ve been getting my hair chemically straightened since I was…

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Surprise: Women in Media are Sexualized and Underemployed

by Ria Desai The Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media’s latest findings are out, and boy, are they looking bleak. There’s nothing like hard data to really hit home about how few women we see in media. The institute analyzed media by breaking the numbers down into three categories: films rated G, PG, and…

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