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fat girl is a 1/4 size zine dealing with body positive imagery and writing, specifically where fat is concerned. FG is a 1/4 size, 20pp zine. this zine is photocopied in black and white on text weight paper. it is hand sewn with a japanese stab binding, and a heavy weight thread.
fat girl # 10, subtitled 'we are stylized beauty', is an issue of FG that deals with the body, directly, and images of the body, specifically the 'supersize' body. there is some nudity within the pages, as well as drawings and text, per usual!
excerpt: "we are flesh, bone, muscle, tissue, fat. we are short, tall, round and square. we are lined folded, rolled, marked, and memorable. we are old, young, scarred, and smooth. we are varied and we are worthy."
This image was taken during the Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival in 2011. I liked the image of shadow and light that this person created.
This poster is dedicated to all the girls in the world. Always remember that you are beautiful, too!
Blogged at: tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2014/03/you-are-beautiful-too....
Like this poster? Buy it here: society6.com/TiffanyGholar/You-are-beautiful-too_Stretche...
this particular page features artwork by Andrea Davis.
Fat Girl number 9, 1/4 size, 20pp.
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Bren writes: "I love my muslos. Just love them! Do I have talks with them on days they decide to act "cheezy"? Sure! But, I've embraced and accpeted after many, many years of
being called "thunder thighs" that my thighs hold me down! They are strong, defined, and allow me to run in the sand... Additionally, since I don't have
the biggest culo in the world, my thighs are that juicy part of my body that keep it sexy no matter what and ultimately support the hips
that'll allow me to bear children. And for fun, the men love some thick thighs!" These aren't going anywhere... ;) "
Bren's site: www.flanboyanteats.com/
We got our ultrascreen at 12 weeks and all is well. So I took a break from drawing this week to share this image of our little one, dancing/swimming/biking/running around my uterus.
Belly starting to show a little bit more this week. These are maternity clothes I am wearing, as most of my clothing is uncomfortable or doesn't fit.
Photos by Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz (www.avephoto.com) and drawings & concept by me. Collaborative mami papi art project to get to know our bebecito.
The whole collection with reflections can be found at www.lauritadianita.info
My sister, Jean, has been doing SUCH an excellent job lately of taking care of her body. She hasn't had a DROP of alcohol in 5 or 6 months. She is eating healthier and hitting the gym- and shedding pounds! This is after she lost her first 10, and we plan on doing a little mini-photo-shoot after each and every 10 until she hits her goal. It will be interesting to see the transformation... but of course, the most important part is that she is going to be so much healthier, and live so much longer. YAY! GO JEAN!
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
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SOOC-loljk there was like and hour and a half worth of editing put into this :P
"God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27
secret-i hate myself because everyone tells me how good i am, and i feel like i can never measure up to their expectations. i. must. be. perfect.
I hope the sender of this secret can grow to understand that they are perfect just the way God made them. He and I love you :)
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I will be completely prejudice free. I promise.
fat girl # eight is a 1/4 size perzine that includes a bunch of art, and is a text heavy zine about what it's like to be a fat girl. this issue has personal stories about fat experience with clothes, a thank you to the anonymous older FG wearing a bikini top at the beach, a letter to my belly, and a thong story (yes, they make those in our size!).
fat girl # eight is a 1/4 size, 20pp zine. this zine is photocopied in black and white on text weight paper. it is hand sewn with heavy thread and a japanese stab binding.
fat girl # eight is a 1/4 size perzine that includes a bunch of art, and is a text heavy zine about what it's like to be a fat girl. this issue has personal stories about fat experience with clothes, a thank you to the anonymous older FG wearing a bikini top at the beach, a letter to my belly, and a thong story (yes, they make those in our size!).
fat girl # eight is a 1/4 size, 20pp zine. this zine is photocopied in black and white on text weight paper. it is hand sewn with heavy thread and a japanese stab binding.
This is bravest thing I have ever posted. So I'm hitting upload before I chicken out - this is in response to a BBC article I read and subsequently shared on Facebook about the reality of post pregnancy bodies - It led to a really refreshing conversation with a group of my friends feelings about their bodies.So I took this photo and wrote about it. here.
This is me – part naked, exposed and posting this before I chicken out – this is in response the BBC article - Are women’s bodies still beautiful after pregnancy? I read and subsequently shared it on Facebook and it led to a really refreshing conversation with a group of my friends – all mothers – feelings about their bodies.
Stretch marks, cesarean scars, weight gain between us we had all felt that something was at fault with our bodies. It made me feel – for want of a better expression. Less alone.
I was stupid while pregnant ate and ate and ate, young and niave so thought “it’s baby weight – it’ll come off”. I was a size 10 -12 when I fell pregnant yet came out of the hospital a size 16 with added stretch marks and flabby bits. The only time I’ve fit into a 12 since was when I was on antidepressants – I got better then my back and hip problems started and the weight piled back on.
Oftentimes I hate my body – I have no real hang ups on how other people view me, But I really do have issues with how I FEEL and I how I view myself and that feeling is compounded by the heatwave we’re currently experiencing. Spring, Autumn, Winter – hell even in the last few summers I’ve been able to hide behind jeans, jumpers and shirts, I can dress and pretend, but in this heat there is nowhere to so.
It’s uncomfortable to be fat. Clothes don’t fit – summer clothes are designed for waifs and in shorts and vests everything is on show. The fat on my thighs – because WHY DO THEY MAKE WOMENS SHORTS SO SHORT, the stretch marks on my arms, the creases on my back it’s all there for the world to see - and I feel uncomfortable, so very uncomfortable and exposed.
Some one sent a card into postsecret:
Being Fat Is like having your most humiliating "secret" visible for the world to see and JUDGE!
And they hit the nail on the head. While in reality I don’t care what YOU think of me, it only takes one story in media, one television programme about thin being beautiful, one stupid stupid facebook post or hurtful remark in the street to reinforce my feelings about myself. And I shouldn’t feel this bad about being me.
I’m 32, a Mom of one, recently married with a great job. I’ve overcome homelessness, selfishness and health issues to be where I am today and here isn’t such a bad place…
…So I’ve been brave and taken this photo. This is me laid bare, I can look at this and see the back fat and the split ends or I can look at this and see history. Every ounce of that weight has been on a journey with me and I need to be grateful for who I am and what I have, and so should all of the other ladies who were talking to me today. I have the greatest of respect for you my friends. You exude confidence and are so much fun to be around from the exterior no one would know of the body issues beneath.
It has taken so much courage for me to take and post this photo ( no really there was nearly tears and I’m home alone) but you’re - WE’RE - all beautiful and think we just need to believe that of ourselves.
If you stay 10 years old long enough you'll either have to go to school or you'll have to avoid walking outside during school hours. So I thought I'd better go to school.
I heard that they making the kids wear uniforms so I went down to Kngs Highway to buy one. The guy in the store this was the right one.
So I go to school. Two things happened!
1. I find out from the custodian that uniforms aren't required anymore. And that this uniform wasn't the right one anyway.
2. It was Saturday.
I think mandating uniforms are a good and a bad idea. It's good because there's so competition about who's wearing what. It's always been that way. But it doesn't allow kids much self expression. Not that there aren't ways around this. I'm wearing my stone necklace, like always, and look at my shoes! Kids need to rebel in some way, always!
I don't know if I want to try again on Monday.
I've been cycling every day to school, which is about 9 kilometres from my house. A half hour bike ride, each way. I think it's starting to show in the calves, which is good reinforcement.
=== Self-esteem is what a person thinks of their own self-worth. It includes beliefs and emotions, and is reflected by behavior. ===
In today's world, girls and women are supposed to follow ideals of beauty, appearance and weight, imposed by multiple interconnecting industries that benefit from making them feel bad about themselves. The more women hate their bodies, the more they can buy dieting products that harm them, pile up the cosmetics and consumer products they don't really need, and subject themselves to all kinds of painful practices and plastic surgeries that would make them look pretty. In a world that loves youth, anti-aging creams become best sellers. The same goes for bleaching products that enforce the norm that white skin is beautiful skin. All this is being perpetuated by the entertainment, fashion, media, advertising, diet and cosmetics industries.
In her 1991 book, The Beauty Myth, author Naomi Wolf argued that women were under assault by the "beauty myth" in five areas: work, religion, sex, violence, and hunger. Wolf wrote that women should have "the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically."
Fat Girl 1 - 7 are now available as a collection.
i may re-photograph this once i make an actual setup for photographing the zines, instead of just propping them against the wall!
This is a study, one of those paintings done only to learn something, in this case it's about learning to paint skin. Constructive criticism, specifically, is welcome because I'm self-taught. This is my third completed work and I'm glad I didn't give up. Blogged at karenascofield.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/acrylic-painting-....
The figures were started with Liquitex Basics (acrylic paints), initially using a limited palette of red oxide, white, mars black, and brown, much like "aux quatre crayons" style sketching (see georgetownatelier.com/tutorials/figure-trois-crayons/), only it's done in acrylic paints (drybrushing was esential for this and I used air brush tips and size 2 filbert paint brushes a lot). Then I added only a little bit of portrait pink (Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic), some shadows (my own color mixes), changed the hair color twice (this time using transparent Golden Fluid Acrylic glazes), added stars, laid down text using text stencils . . . I ended up creating a number of layers which were individually coated with a gloss glaze.
I like a somewhat dilute Golden Polymer Medium (never more than 40% water) as that gloss glaze between layers. Unfortunately, while it makes it look great, bringing out the depth of the painting's colors, the camera app on my iphone often picks up some glare, as it did on the right here. Sorry about that. Maybe I'll learn to set up a real photograph station and learn a bit of photography. One thing at a time, I guess.
I think I'll stop messing with it now; leaving it an odd jumble of attention to detail (in doing the stars and so on) and lack of detail (like just painting suggestions of hands, and not finishing the face or second figure). It served its purpose and I learned a lot. As an exercise to learn how to paint skin, I'm doing this because the skin in my first completed painting was just awwwwful. www.flickr.com/photos/sari0009/6810175997/
Since the painting was based on a graphite sketch my daughter made, with her permission, it's going to her. It's a bit of a social statement on her part.
The censorship bars are not there in person and were only added digitally, the only digital addition here.
Written by Kezarah
I'm going to make a zine about body image. It's called Tell me about your body in 10 words or less.
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