Giving Up Beauty

Illuminate Our Way... a letter to my students on the last day of class

Illuminate Our Way… a letter to my students on the last day of class

Here is the truth that, even if you walk away with nothing else from this class, you must know: You are not broken. Or maybe the truth is really this: […]

The Happy Sheet:  Who cares?

The Happy Sheet: Who cares?

meeting my own body

meeting my own body

Warning: possible trigger for those who have experienced sexual harassment or abuse. “My uncle says Puerto Rican girls are F-I-N-E FINE,” he hisses at me, his hands groping for me […]

Price of Beauty Month 2 Update

Price of Beauty Month 2 Update

You might recall that on October 23 I made the commitment to track my beauty spending in a post called .  I figured the best way to update you here […]

My mom and I all natural at the airport

All Natural Friday Details

This Friday, February 25, we will be celebrating All Natural Friday in my body image class at UNC-Charlotte (and around the world, wherever you are).  What is All Natural Friday?  […]

Sofia Vergara with and without make-up

Going all natural

I issued the challenge because it was becoming more and more apparent that it would be a challenge.  This Friday, my body image class and I will go without any […]

Love Your Body (and win loot)

Love Your Body (and win loot)

Love Your Body Day is Wednesday, October 20th, and my goal is to get ALL of you to sign a pledge to be your own body champion.  Below, you’ll find […]

Giving Up Beauty

So, I never intended to have a career as a writer and, most especially, did not expect to end up being a positive body image advocate (well, I personally was […]

Operation Beautiful with Caitlyn Boyle

Operation Beautiful with Caitlyn Boyle

Earlier this year, I discovered Operation Beautiful and blogged about it here.  Earlier this summer, Operation Beautiful went from being a global project to also being a book.  Now, people everywhere […]

Bodywork

Driving the car                 through the local township- that bitch of a machine- she catches a glimpse                 of her beauty starved face in that dingy rearview- its moods dictating […]