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first draft of an essay I needed to write in order to emotionally compose for a paper I’m attempting…
Not too long ago I “came out” about my eating disorder. Like so many others my age, my eating disorder has for a long time been anything but glamorous. I certainly wasn’t the stick thin models [...]
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Thanks to The F-Word for this post, talking about the collective club of “who can eat less.” The New Thirteen recently also had a post about her own experiences regarding the eat less= be feminine and good thing we’ve got going on.
I thank my lucky stars, that despite being familiar with the behavior of competative [...]
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So, an 18 year old dies from voluntary surgery, a breast augmentation to be exact.
“doctors believe Kuleba died of a rare and potentially deadly genetic reaction to general anesthesia known as malignant hyperthermia”
Ok so a few bones to pick with this one. First, every girl, and every woman, has the right to do whatever the [...]
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I’m actually spitting fire right now. So I’ll just post the images from Vogue’s supermodel/athlete shoot. No female athletes.
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Two things happened yesterday. 1) I actually began to KNOW that if I was skinnier, I wouldn’t be happier or better. I knew it intellectually, I knew it, but I hadn’t yet REALLY had it penetrate into my real knowing. Its an amazing feeling. I could see myself as that much smaller, and knew that all [...]
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About a year ago. For years, I had swung between really caring that I couldn’t break my nasty, ugly habit (old words I used to describe my nails) and occasionally ceasing to notice, and thus ceasing to bite. I came up with theories about WHEN and WHY I would bite them, the traditional stuff about being stressed, [...]
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I went to a really nice dinner tonight with a group of people I really really like. They are all sweet, kind, and generally would say that they care about me, and one another. However, this is also a group of people who believe in diets. As in, at least 20 minutes of the conversation [...]
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So I’m working on this paper for school, actually I’ll call it a project because that seems less daunting and academic. From my first run in’s with all this body image stuff, lots of things have held tension for me. Eating, hunger and weight loss are particularly (obviously) hot spots. After a couple years of dealing with [...]
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I got together with a group of women last night, all who know each other around doing social justice work. Particularly around race. They were (intentionally) all white women- the conversation topic was intended to be about what it is to be a white woman. I was both thrilled and pretty scared about the conversation. Though [...]
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The cover story of the illuminary Sunday Styles section (NYT) featured this story “Starving Themselves- Drink in Hand.”
Silly girl that I am, I thought the article might have some valuable insights into another facet of eating disorders and their prevelance. Unfortunately, the topic was treated as some sort of pop-psychology novelty. The only good part [...]
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