I was reading a magazine I don’t usually read a few weeks ago. I was on a plane and needed some light reading – I can never read my books on planes, I tend to get extremely nauseated. Apart from the usual pages of mostly-unattainable-fashion and “must have!” tips and titbits, there were articles on…
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My friend Zoe recently wore a cropped top out. IN PUBLIC. And she didn’t get stared at. She didn’t get ridiculed. I was recently in Sydney and wore leggings as pants. IN PUBLIC. And I didn’t get stared at, I didn’t get ridiculed. Ok, granted, my leggings as pants had a longish top over them…
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TRIGGER WARNING FOR TALK OF DISORDERED EATING AND THOUGHTS. I don’t like comments on my body. Unsolicited or solicited. I know it sounds strange when I say that I don’t like solicited comments on my body, but I’ve come to realise, that I used to solicit comments because I wanted people to say how “good”…
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One of my younger sisters recently went for her very first blood test. She’s 25. She has Downs’s syndrome and has never been tested, due to a combination of decent ongoing health and a large fear of needles. As I am her carer, we conquered that fear with me in the room with her and…
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I attended the Brisbane Slutwalk on the 28th of May. I attended in support and solidarity of my peers, male and female. The turn out at the Brisbane event was very large. Over 2000 people rsvped on Facebook, and although I don’t believe that many people came, the crowd was huge. We walked the streets,…
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I’d like to discuss triggers and the importance of trigger warnings. I personally define a trigger as something that raises my blood pressure, upsets me, and makes me start to have a panic attack or ratchets up my anxiety to a high level. Other people define triggers and what triggers them in different ways. Shakesville…
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Despite being fully aware of the advertising industry and the clothing industry’s ways of manipulating the consumer, I am still sucked into certain advertising and clothing industry campaigns. For goodness sake, I just got an email from ASOS about 20% off and I clicked straight over without hesitating, just in case I found something, even…
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Slut. Just the word, written on the page like that, with no ‘connotations’ still makes me cringe. A word, used to keep women down, put them in their place, denigrate, shame. Slut. Well, no more shame. The Slutwalk is here. The Walk started in Toronto, Canada in January of 2011, because of a shocking statement…
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Recently, a friend of mine was attacked by an anonymous person online for ‘promoting unhealthy habits’. Her ‘unhealthy habit’? Choosing to participate in a burrito eating competition and posting photographs of said burrito. Which she couldn’t even finish. Oh my word, call the health police, she’s got a burrito! Somebody stop her! Really? As she…
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I just got back from Melbourne. I’ve never been before and was super excited to go – mainly for the shopping and eating, but also, just for the experience. I knew the shopping would probably be a bit better than it would be here – more variety of stores and much more space in the…
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My father told me about an incident at his work recently that left me bemused. He works in a very blue collar, male dominated work place. He was in the lunch room on his tea break, and stumbled across a conversation regarding weight. The men sitting at the lunch room table were trading diet tips….
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Over the past week, there has been a hash tag on Twitter that has been making the rounds: #thingsfatpeoplearetold. Fat people would talk about things people have said to them; friends, family, strangers, medical professionals and hash tag it with #thingsfatpeoplearetold. Hash tags on Twitter are easy to search and the more things tagged the…
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It’s no secret I deal with anxiety. It’s something I’m totally open about. I’ve thought that what I deal with is mainly generalised anxiety, but I’ve come to realise in the past year that lately, I lean more towards social anxiety. I was already becoming a bit like a hermit anyway, but an incident earlier…
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The Sartorialist was one of the first fashion blogs I read regularly on the internet. I loved the photographs, how clear they were, what they captured. Once I started searching the internet more, however, the flaws I found within the blog outweighed my enjoyment of it. The other day was the last straw. To be…
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