- 1. 5 Creators Fighting Diet Culture That Go Beyond Body Positivity
- (Living)
- Media is overloaded with advertisements and other content that pushes harmful beauty and “wellness” standards, but this is increasingly being juxtaposed by content creators trying to drown it out with ...
- Created on 26 January 2023
- 2. “Barbie” Teaser Delivers A Glimpse at Greta Gerwig’s Highly Anticipated Film—Finally!
- (Movies)
- ... character who has been associated with controversy in the past. The toy, invented by Mattel, has faced criticism on and off over the years for inspiring unrealistic beauty standards and materialistic values ...
- Created on 19 December 2022
- 3. How the Recent AI-Generated Avatar Trend Perpetuates the Western Male Gaze
- (Feminism)
- ... with the most innocent-seeming internet trends, women can’t escape the crushing weight of bigoted beauty standards. Aubrey Gordon, an anti-fatphobia author/activist who publishes under the name Your ...
- Created on 08 December 2022
- 4. Covered In Wrinkles and Unapologetically Old, Baba Yaga Is The Bad-Ass Slavic Witch You Need To Know About
- (Feminism)
- ... beauty. Go ahead and call her “ugly,” “old,” and “bony”—she truly does not give a fuck. Baba Yaga is here for it. She is unapologetically old. No Botox or facelift for her. She gives three spits on ...
- Created on 07 April 2022
- 5. How TikTok Helped Me Learn to Accept My Vulva
- (Sex)
- ... university. I heard the poetic lines about a vulva’s beauty and its flower-like shape over and over again. I watched fellow actors perform comedic tales of overcoming aversion to the “mink-lined muffler” ...
- Created on 29 March 2022
- 6. The Risks Of Liking Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License": Are You Anti-Feminist for Listening to "Sou
- (Music)
- ... no doubt, stem from society's unrealistic beauty standards. Neither woman can win. In reality, Rodrigo voicing her insecurities in her own art shouldn’t spur anyone to lash out— neither Rodrigo nor Carpenter ...
- Created on 16 March 2022
- 7. Lizzo, Melanie Lynskey, Barbie Ferreira, And More Are Calling Out Body-Shamers
- (Entertainment)
- ... ideal, but she's a body icon and has created a modern-day beauty standard. And what I'm doing is stepping into my confidence and my power to create my own beauty standard. And one day that will just be th ...
- Created on 14 March 2022
- 8. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
- (Entertainment)
- ... limited series featuring Octavia Spencer depicts the rise and success of Madam CJ Walker, the first female self-made millionaire. Self-Made explores American beauty standards, women's empowerment, and women ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
- 9. Happier Than Ever: Billie Eilish Dissects Her New Life As A Superstar
- (Entertainment)
- ... towards her trailblazing sound. Inevitably though, people took out their digital magnifying glasses to see if her strong personality would burn under the opinions and beauty standards that accompany such ...
- Created on 18 August 2021
- 10. We've Got a Long Way to Go: The Gossip Girl Reboot Promised Diversity, but Served Up More of the Same Old, Same Old Instea
- (TV)
- ... Peak is Ugandan and white Canadian). Historically, due to colorist beauty standards, in TV and movies mixed race Black women have been chosen over Black women to act as fully Black characters. Mixed race ...
- Created on 17 August 2021
- 11. Alicia Keys Continues Her Campaign For Greater Body Acceptance In New Video
- (Living)
- ... Doherty Calls Out Hollywood’s Beauty Standards And The Lack of Representation for "Women Who Embraced their Face" In A Makeup-Free Selfie Kate Winslet Refuses to Hide Her Body in Mare of Easttown The ...
- Created on 14 June 2021
- 12. Shannen Doherty Calls Out Hollywood’s Beauty Standards And The Lack of Representation for "Women Who Embraced their Face" In A Makeup-Free Selfi
- (Feminism)
- Former Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Shannen Doherty turned to social media to speak out about Hollywood’s strict beauty standards, and to share her thoughts on embracing her natural beauty. She posted ...
- Created on 09 June 2021
- 13. Kate Winslet Refuses to Hide Her Body in Mare of Easttown
- (TV)
- ... “oh my God, how can she let herself look so unglamorous?” Yet her firmness stems from a desire not to allow fixation on beauty to interfere with the authenticity of her acting performance: “I guess that’s ...
- Created on 03 June 2021
- 14. What Makes Gen Z BIPOC Folks Feel "10 times more beautiful"? SELFMADE's Founder Stephanie Lee Know
- (Sponsored)
- ... make us feel worthy. In spite of Gen Z having access to an unlimited number of beauty brands and sophisticated tools at their fingertips, they are sadder and angrier than generations before. This is because ...
- Created on 28 April 2021
- 15. Demi Lovato Plans to Keep Her Recovery Private After Facing Backlash
- (Entertainment)
- ... Babies, Sparking Outrage Among Women's Rights Groups The Impossible Task Of Keeping Up With The Kardashians' "Perfect" Beauty And Body Standards Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products ...
- Created on 22 April 2021
- 16. Five 2000s Trends that Must Die
- (Entertainment)
- ... in the past lest we resurrect the unhealthy beauty standards for the female body of the time period. Women’s bodies are not trends. 2. Asian cultural appropriation Graceanne from New York City, New ...
- Created on 16 April 2021
- 17. Trippy Tuesday Is Revolutionizing Female Figure Art With Body-Normative Candles
- (Living)
- ... More from BUST These 10 Empowering and Body-Positive Women On Tik Tok Will Remind You To Love Yourself Every Day The Impossible Task Of Keeping Up With The Kardashians' "Perfect" Beauty And Body ...
- Created on 13 April 2021
- 18. The Impossible Task of Keeping Up With The Kardashians' "Perfect" Beauty and Body Standard
- (Living)
- ... what appears to be a genuine smile, and her body looks healthy. The real story is what lies beyond that surface: a culture of unrealistic beauty standards that are harmful to women everywhere, and even ...
- Created on 13 April 2021
- 19. How could a woman not know she was autistic until age 31? The answer has everything to do with gender bias.
- (Living)
- ... since COVID has made this impossible anyway). I don’t feel the urge to drink a little too much just so I can feel more comfortable socially engaging with people. I think I’m finally understanding the beauty ...
- Created on 25 January 2021
- 20. How Has Anna Wintour Reportedly "Sidelined and Tokenized" People of Color at Vogue? New Exposé Reveals a Toxic Workplac
- (Style)
- ... with Wintour. Everything that they had to say speaks for itself. Vogue, according to 18 people Lee spoke to, hires their employees based on white, Eurocentric beauty standards, “someone who is thin and ...
- Created on 27 October 2020
