What Confucius said about beauty
I just came across an article by Fatima Chowdhury on body image in India. Below is an excerpt. Check the whole thing out here. Confucius once said: ‘Everything has beauty,but […]
Blogging Naked
So, my to do list this morning started with “Blog Naked” which, fortunately since it is cold in our little cottage this morning, does not mean that I am blogging in the […]
Giving Up Beauty: Another I-Mix
So everyday I am provided with a list of terms that people entered in search engines and thus found the blog for Hijas Americanas. The things people enter all over the […]
A M'ija to Meet: Lisa, Puerto Rican and 1/8 Peruvian
What I love about being Latina: Our culture. Between history, food, music, language and everything else under the sun, it’s hard not to be a proud Latina. What I love […]
The Precipice of a Beauty Revolution
When I started work on Hijas Americanas in early 2006, there wasn’t much talk of shaking up America’s beauty standard. I researched, interviewed wonderful, forthright women, and wrote while taking […]
Want to be a Body Warrior to Meet?
Tuesday’s weekly feature on the Hijas Americanas blog is “A Body Warrior to Meet.” It features women of all ages and backgrounds celebrating their body, beauty, and identity. Would […]
A Body Warrior to Meet: Lorraine
What I love about myself: I love my passion, my poise, and my creativity. I love the fact that I am not willing to compromise who I am to fit […]
2007 Jeers
I would be remiss if I didn’t also name some of the jeers from 2007. So, here are a few things that happened in 2007 that should never happen again… […]
2007 Cheers
In the fall of 2006, I became convinced that we were on the precipe of a beauty and body standard revolution. That the standards were about to be shaken up […]
