This is what a feminist looks like
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YA13GNT8Mc] When I was doing the interviews for Hijas, I asked all the women if they considered themselves feminists. An interesting thing that I noticed was that a lot of the younger women (let’s […]
Laugh, Cry, Think, Sing
So, my battle against resistance is going well. I’ve worked out for 6 days in a row. I’ve had home cooked dinners 5 times in 7 days. I am not working […]
Love My Body!
I’ve talked a bit on here and in interviews and workshops about the issue of body image in women of color including the realities of eating disorders and the implications of Hollywood’s portrayal of women. I just came […]
A Body Warrior to Meet: Lori
What I love about myself: My sense of humor. My biggest challenge in accepting my body and beauty:I’m never where I think my body should be physically. I like my […]
Sex, Stereotypes, and Beauty
For 10 years, the National Organization for Women has been engaged in the Love Your Body Campaign: looking at ways that Hollywood, the fashion industry, and the media project images […]
A Body Warrior to Meet: Lindsey
What I love about myself: My love of being a parent and ‘teacher’ to my children My biggest challenge in accepting my body and beauty: practicing and believing in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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… […]
