I was all ready to go on a rant after reading about Beyonce’s lettuce-and-treadmill diet – you know, your standard “OMG unrealistic beauty standards are the WORST!” rant – but […]
Last week, reader Ilyse sent me this Sports Illustrated article about transgender athletes that pretty much blew me away. The article focused on Keelin Godsey, the first openly transgender athlete […]
(This is my blatant rip-off of the Hairpin’s brilliant “Women laughing alone with salad” and the follow-up, “Women struggling to drink water.”)
Normally when someone criticizes my work on this blog, I take their words into careful consideration and I often find myself reconsidering my position on a given subject. Sometimes I […]
On Sunday, I marked the one-year anniversary of this blog. In that time, I have been continually awed and humbled by the response my little corner of the internet has […]
Plans are in the works for yet another bikini sports league – this time, a hockey league. Yes, you read that correctly. A bikini hockey league. Some enterprising man in […]
In 1972, an 11-year-old girl named Maria wanted to play Little League baseball in New Jersey. She tried out for the team and was so good they made her pitcher. […]
It’s that time of year again – the time of year when it seems like every women’s magazine is screaming at us to GET YOUR BEST BIKINI BODY EVER in […]
There’s a famous passage in “The Bell Jar” that hits me in the gut every time I read it. In it, Esther talks about imagining herself sitting in the crook […]
Fit and Feminist 