Jennifer Nicole
Links à la Mode: Reflections, Realizations, and Resolve
Reflections, Realizations, and Resolve Edited by: The Curvy Fashionista After we blazed into the new year with resolutions, ideals, paired with moxie and gusto, we also came into the new year with questions, self realizations, and new inspirations. This week’s round up features some of the most though provoking, feel-good, and reason to re-examine your [...]
Something’s Got to Give: Living With Body Dysmorphia
“I’m just not allowing myself to wallow. If I feel triggered by something, I get out of that situation. Immediately. No apologies. If it means skipping a post or skipping a party or admitting that i can’t help in a situation, I’m doing it. If I’m getting ready in the morning and I feel gross [...]
Challenging the Movement: What Is Privilege?
I stumbled upon a very interesting article about white privilege through Riots Not Diets (a fat acceptance blog) which I came to through Tangled Up In Lace (a body acceptance blog that used to be a fat acceptance blog), and it got me thinking about privilege. Before I go any further, let me give you [...]
Links a la Mode: It Gets Better
It Gets Better Edited by: The Sunday Best As we head full on into the “holiday” season, with its unbridled consumerism, endless head-whacking charity pleas, and weird tie-ins, I expected the links list to be inundated with shopping guides. Instead, many dealt with what can only be considered harassment or, terribly, abuse; several looked at [...]
A (Hopefully Polite) Discussion on Fat Acceptance
Is menswear more expensive than women’s clothing? What does vanity sizing mean to you? Shapewear: a fun enhancement, or an enemy of body acceptance? …and what do you call your vagina? The above links are some of the latest discussions over at The Demoiselles Community. We’re having so much fun hashing out these topics with [...]
Wing Tips: Why I’d Rather Buy Online
People don’t understand how I can buy clothing online. How does one determine how something will fit, or feel, or look if they haven’t tried it on in a poorly-lit dressing room with three of their closest friends ready to scrutinize it as they prance around barefoot? I find buying clothing online easier, actually, than [...]
We Are Not Knives: On Dullness and Aging
It’s been a hot minute since we’ve talked about getting older. Almost weekly, I notice little things that define my age: my skin is slightly less luminescent, my hands are dry, and that area just above my elbows is doing this weird drooping thing that my mom’s elbows do. Even with all of my excitement [...]
Mantra
I am sitting in my bathtub. The water is running over my feet and when I’m not writing these words my arms are stretched above my head, resting against the pink bathroom wall. I should be doing dishes, or laundry. I should be planning tomorrow’s post, or at least an outfit. Shaving my legs. Working [...]
Article Outrage: The Archetypal Man
We all know that the media loves to play hide and seek with women’s self esteem: magazines Photoshop “flaws,” beauty ads sell anti-aging everything, and you can’t watch a half hour of television without learning how to make your butt firmer, your thighs leaner, your hair longer…the list is endless. The general population is starting [...]
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