I was recently digging through my Instagram to find something from several years ago when the friend I was with stopped me. “There’s no way that’s you,” they protested, pointing to a post of myself in my mid-teens. We all have these pictures lurking in our Throwback Thursdays – the ones where you’re all gangly…
Fashion
Ableism in the fashion industry: what needs to be done?
In the last few years, e-commerce images have become less photoshopped and more realistic. We are starting to see the human form represented on a relatable level with features like cellulite and stretch marks being embraced rather than hidden. With body positivity becoming more prevalent online, retail companies had to up their game and give…
Fashion
Khloe Kardashian and toxic beauty standards
Last week an unfiltered image of Khloe Kardashian posing in a bikini was accidentally posted online. Her response: to get lawyers involved. Anybody who shared the image could find themselves threatened with legal action and all websites that had posted the image were instructed to remove it. She later also posted an unedited video of…
Features
UEA Ballet’s ‘Love Your Leo’ Campaign 2021
Starting this week and running until the 8th March, UEA Ballet are running our annual body positivity campaign, ‘Love Your Leo(tard)’. This will be the third year that we have run this campaign as a society, and each year we aim to raise more money for our chosen charities, Beat and Eating Matters. These charities…
Features
Raising and Giving society reveal all about their naked calendar
The Raising and Giving (RAG) society create an annual naked calendar to raise money for a variety of local, national and international charities, which is running for its fourth year. The creation of the calendar was inspired by the popular film and theatre show, ‘Calendar girls’. The calendar aims to promote body positivity in addition…
Creative Writing
Loving Your Body
Kia is watching herself in the mirror and She doesn’t look like herself; She thinks she did once; She wishes she did now; She never will again. Kia is watching herself in the mirror and Where there was once the sharp jutting of rocks There is now ripe grassland, May green, lingering with soft sweet-scented…
Features
Selling nudes for charity: The naked calendar uncovered
For many, the thought of posing in the nude in front of a camera with very little to preserve your dignity is perhaps a little too much on the scary side, even if it is for charity. While for others, holding nothing but a hockey-stick or harp feels more like second nature. Why is it…
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