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Five Resolutions to Consider for 2008

By Rosie Molinary on December 31, 2007

I’m a resolver. A lister. A planner. A dreamer. A must do better-er. And I am also a supporter of women, a cheerleader (in the theoretical sense. I tried out for cheerleading […]

Posted in Food for Thought, What We Must Do | Tagged beauty standards, body image, marketing, New Year's, Resolutions, Women's Issues | 4 Responses

Brooke Shields & Self-Confidence

By Rosie Molinary on December 13, 2007

So, I just made a little bit more of a dent in my backlog of magazines and came across an interview that Fitness Magazine did with Brooke Shields. I especially […]

Posted in Food for Thought, Giving Up Beauty, Raising Our Voices | Tagged beauty perception, body image, Brooke Shields, self-awareness, self-confidence | Leave a response

Marie Claire's Special Report: Erasing Ethnicity

By Rosie Molinary on December 11, 2007

One of the things that really surprised me when I was doing the interviews for Hijas Americanas was the most common answer to the question: Have you ever had plastic […]

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I HEART J. Love

By Rosie Molinary on December 7, 2007

I was a Party of Fiver. A madly, enamored Party of Fiver. Wanted to be Neve Campbell Party of Fiver. Wanted to marry Matthew Fox. Thought I might ditch him […]

Posted in Food for Thought, Giving Up Beauty, Raising Our Voices | Tagged beauty perception, body image, Jennifer Love Hewitt, magazines, self-confidence | 3 Responses

Daisy Fuentes, Girls on the Run, Hijas Americanas, and Fitness Magazine

By Rosie Molinary on August 20, 2007

Here is a statistic from the Growing Up Latina survey that 521 women completed in support of the research for Hijas Americanas: 84% of respondents feel that women today are […]

Posted in Press, Raising Our Voices | Tagged beauty, body image, book, confidence, Daisy Fuentes, girls, Latinas, Media, running | Leave a response

What are you waiting for?

By Rosie Molinary on July 13, 2007

Have you purchased your copy of Hijas Americanas yet? If not, what’s the hold up? Even Urban Latino magazine thinks you should. Here’s a review that they recently ran. Urbano […]

Posted in Press | Tagged beauty perception, body image, books, Caribbean, Central America, ethnic identity, ethnicity, Latina, Mexico, review, South America, writing | Leave a response

A M'ija to Meet: Amada, Dominicana

By Rosie Molinary on July 12, 2007

What I love about being Latina: I love having curves and being proud of them!!! What I love about being Americana: I love being able to have a Spanglish conversation […]

Posted in M'ijas | Tagged America, beautiful, beauty perception, body image, culture, Dominican Republic, Latina, self-confidence, Women's Issues | 7 Responses

Let's talk about sex (education).

By Rosie Molinary on June 24, 2007

Thank you to the folks who came out to the JosephBeth reading on Thursday night (what a beautiful bookstore) and the Malaprops reading on Friday night (Malaprops is still just […]

Posted in The Numbers | Tagged AIDS, body image, Latinas, sex education, statistics, teenage pregnancy | Leave a response