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
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
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.
Monday, November 14, 2011
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.....
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