Yoplait pulls eating disorder triggering commercial off the air
After the National Eating Disorders Association called Yoplait out on a commercial that normalizes disordered eating, the company has agreed to pull the commercial off the air. A NEDA press release...
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Vicious cycles: mothers, daughters, eating disorders
Over the weekend, this postcard was posted at PostSecret. For those of you who aren’t familiar with PostSecret, it’s a long-running crowd sourced art project in which people put their secrets on...
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Halloween store’s “Anna Rexia” costume
Plenty of people take Halloween as an opportunity to dress in more revealing outfits (/costumes) than they would, say, to the office; there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that! But it’s irritating...
View ArticleDangerously misinformed article on eating disorders posted on Muscle and...
*Trigger warning: I care a lot about the readers of this blog and I respectfully ask that you please do not read on if you are prone to be triggered around eating and health or body-related themes.*...
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80% of 10-year-old girls in the U.S. say they’ve been on a diet
Tell me there’s not something seriously fucking wrong with this fact. This is just one of many that have compelled Miss Representation, SPARK, Endangered Bodies and other organizations to host a 3-day...
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Erin Matson weighs in on eating disorders and pregnancy, kicks ass
Erin Matson, baller feminist advocate and organizer and former vice president of action for the National Organization for Women, is pregnant. BABY FEMINIST ON ITS WAY, wahooooooooo! Matson is also an...
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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet
If you haven’t yet, go read @ClinicEscort‘s account of explaining the importance of abortion rights to an Amtrak-full of students heading home from Saturday’s “March for Uterine Conscription” (scroll...
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Urge the White House to recognize non-binary genders. Five-year-old girl names dinosaur… after herself. Why didn’t Abigail Fisher get into UT? Support the #NotBuyingIt app! Stop fat shaming Kim...
View ArticleGuest post: My old friend Ana
**Trigger warning** This is a guest post from an anonymous Feministing reader. You could say I’m a words person. Communications, in all forms, is what I’m good at, it’s what I gravitate towards. I’ll...
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Think Progress has compiled the seven most sexist gun ads. Today is the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act. Why haven’t we closed the gap? The 10 best male rappers–written up as though they were...
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Indian-American who has suffered from bulimia crowned Miss America; reactions...
On Friday Chloe asked if we should do away with beauty pageants. She argued that pageants are a kind of “low-hanging fruit” of feminism, part of a much larger problem relating to how we think about...
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The Feministing Guide to Surviving the Holidays
The holidays are a glorious time of shiny baubles and delicious food and sepia memories — unless, of course, your life is even a tiny bit complicated, in which case there’s a 97% chance that the mere...
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Afghan Cycles- the first women to ride bikes in the country. Chronicling what it’s like to be hungry in America. Who is Black? What is Blackness? What works for (non-rich, non-white) women at work. On...
View ArticleWhich Rehab Did Amy Winehouse Say No To?
Trigger warning: addiction, eating disorders. I should have gone to see Amy, the documentary about the late British singer Amy Winehouse, alone. Winehouse is my favorite artist – followed very closely...
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The Feministing Five: Body Positivity Activist Megan Crabbe
Megan Crabbe, a UK-based anorexia survivor turned body positivity blogger and activist, says she started hating her body at just five years old. At her thinnest, Megan’s weight was dangerously low....
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