Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Scientific Guidelines for informing viewers about photoshopping

Way to implement guidelines about retouched photos in print media

Great article on efforts to "develop guidelines to discourage changing photographs in a way that might 'promote unrealistic expectations of appropriate body image.'"

How to implement such guidelines? One possibility: Simply tell viewers how much an image has been altered.

And, one article addressing this research and its implications:
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/05/3303648/for-healthier-female-body-images.html

Friday, November 18, 2011

What it means to "Take a Walk"

Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor went for a walk and engaged in a terrific conversation about disability as not merely some physical status but largely a social status, and that is also true for so called "able-bodied" persons.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Words of Wisdom from Miss Piggy (my girlhood obsession)

Leave it to the brilliant Jim Henson to create a 3rd-wave icon before 3rd wave feminism even existed.....