Category Archives: beauty

BeautifulPeople.com: “this isn’t a witch hunt for fat people”

The site’s leadership is trying to have their cake and eat it, too.
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Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” is having a bad day

Chris Rock asserted that this movie was for the Black community, and yet it has revealed nothing new.
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Igigi’s Yuliya Raquel: plus size fashion must redefine beauty

"My belief is that every single human being on this planet is beautiful, truly beautiful, beyond any description."
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Hair: the article against externally-enforced racial beauty standards*

We are as "have hair; will travel (whether you like it or not)" as anybody else.
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Feminine presentation for trans women is a life or death issue

I'm cognizant that performing my feminine gender presentation as flawlessly as possible impacts my life.
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Fat-shaming during bikini season

The link between class and fat is ignored in an effort to present this issue as solely a problem of individual responsibility.
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Happy March 8th! Now smile and put on some make-up!

The earnestness of this day is a reminder of the crises and failures of the last twenty years - so it must be smothered in roses and champagne. Marx and Engels had us all bamboozled, as it turned out.
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A crash course in getting ready for New Year’s Eve parties

Looking effortlessly good is still an art for us mere mortals. So here are some pointers:
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Breaking news: Oprah Weighs 200 pounds!!!

If you are fat in this society, many instantly feel that they have the right to sit in judgment of you. They tell you that it is for your own good.
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Two Thoughts in the Prado Museum, Madrid

Why does immortality only belong to the dead?
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