Image:Brendon Thorne/Getty Images Trigger warning: this post discusses eating disorders. I’d like to preface this post by saying I am not body shaming either Ariana Grande or Cynthia Erivio, nor accusing them of having eating disorders. My goal is to bring light to recent concerns and discussions about method acting, competitive eating disorders, and the push […]
Read More WICK(ED)?Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? In a ballet class, mirrors are a useful tool to show or fix how your technique looks. It is also a weapon for ballerinas to pick apart their bodies, their weight, and their beauty daily. The standards within the ballet culture are detrimental […]
Read More Mirror Mirror…Summer is just about a month away, and everyone is starting to prepare for the warm weather. Planning vacations, buying new outfits, and working hard to get their summer body. The phrase “summer body” stems from the phrase “bikini body“, which become popularized in a 1961 ad campaign from a chain of weight loss salons […]
Read More Let’s Talk About The “Summer Body”Picture this: You’re in seventh grade, your body is changing, it’s confusing, and you’re told to cover it up every day because “it’s distracting.” No shorts. No T-shirts. No jeans except on Fridays. No holes in jeans. Make sure your jeans aren’t too tight. How tight is too tight? Cover your butt completely with a […]
Read More Dress Code DramaSince being diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 2017, which is a disease that causes my body to not be able to absorb gluten or the proper nutrients, I have always been on the underweight side. This has caused many issues throughout my everyday life, including developing an eating disorder, comments being made by everyone around […]
Read More Skinny Shaming And Body ImageWhat do you think of when you hear about Victoria’s Secret brand? I think of push-up bras and thongs. That’s what I would spend my money on in middle school and early high school. Little did I know then I was buying into the falsehoods and lies behind Victoria’s Secret. It was an extremely popular […]
Read More Victoria’s Secret: A Toxic FantasyIf there is one thing the pandemic was helpful for, it was the fact that it allowed me to think. Like A LOT. One of the topics on the forefront of my mind has been life choices, both those that I made and those that were made for me. One choice that was made for […]
Read More What’s the Pointe? Lessons learned from being a “Plus sized” dancer.You may be hip to the notorious Tiktok trend, “Tell me you have pretty privilege…without telling me you have pretty privilege.” To which the prompt is stitched with a pretty face who boastfully tells a tale to a camera about how their attractiveness benefited them in a particular circumstance. I angrily reacted to how this […]
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