29 posts tagged Body positivity
The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies
The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.
Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”
I am in love with this.
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This is fucking beautiful.
And I just signed up to be in it next time they come around to my area. You should too!
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Stop telling women that we should find ourselves beautiful and that we should love ourselves when you are standing right there, judging us on how our knees look in short skirts and how prominent our boobs are in a sweater and how much makeup we are or are not wearing.
Instead of us working harder on “love your body” and “find your inner beauty”, the rest of the world should be working harder on “stop telling women their bodies are a shameful place to live but that if they’re strong enough, they will learn to embrace that shame.”
This is my body. It’s not “beautiful”. I don’t “love it”. I don’t have to. I don’t have to have any strong feelings about my body. And whatever feelings I do have are not somehow invalid if they’re not glowing reviews.
”Elyse Mofo, “Don’t Tell Me to Love My Body” (via verticillium)
This shit needs to be said more often.
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Debenhams shows diversity in fashion…
By Kay, Editorial Assistant , The Debenhams Blog
“Here at Debenhams we believe that anyone can look fabulous in our range- which is why we’ve decided to break with Convention…
“Our Customers are not the same shape or size so our latest look book celebrates this diversity. We would be delighted if others followed our lead. Hopefully these shots will be a step, albeit a small one, towards more people feeing more comfortable about their boidies,’” said Ed Watson, Director of PR, Debenhams”
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“You would look so much better if you lost some weight-“
“You would be so much cuter with make up-“
“Make sure you shave or wax way all that body hair-“
“You shouldn’t wear that-“
“You would be beautiful if you just changed how you look-“
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Things every human is bad at:
Things every human is:
You’re definitely beautiful, anon.
(rebloggable by request!)
Everybody deserves to take up exactly as much space as their body needs. Fat people do not need to be thinner to “fit” better into a society that hates us and that structurally disadvantages us.
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WOMEN! For the women’s health clinic I’m working with.
I want to do 6 more. Ideas? Leave me an ask. Otherwise just let me know what you think. I’m going to Key West on Friday and probably won’t be able to crank out any more till I get back.
Red headband girl is pretty clearly Madeleine Flores, winky winky. Hope you like dat ridic muffin top. :B
Things I wouldn’t have thought of without tumblr: Heavier girl w/o baggy clothes, muscular girl, body hair lady. Great ideas!! Thanks you.Also all the skin tones were more varied, but I put an overlay on it that made all the tans kinda similar. Whups.
Gorgeous!
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Seventeen Magazine is asking their teenage readers to use #AskJillian to talk to Jillian Michaels of The Biggest Loser for “health and fitness” advice. This is the same show, mind you, that purportedly abused and bullied at least one contestant to the point where she was triggered into an eating disorder, and the same magazine that signed the “Body Peace Treaty” and claimed it wants teen girls to have good body image.
The hypocrisy is a teensy bit overwhelming.
Might I suggest we flood this hashtag with questions about body shaming and health?
The wonderful Etta Candy, ladies and gentlemen.
—Sensation Comics #12 (1942) by William Moulton Marston & H.G. Peter
“I Owe All My Success To Candy!” — me too.
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