What we talk about when we talk about women and aging
I turned 36 this year, and I told my friend Autumn that I’ve been surprised by how much I’ve liked getting older. To be quite frank about it, I feel […]
Category Archives: Fascist Beauty Standards
Runner’s face: When beauty culture gets stupid
If you follow trends in makeup at all, you know that lately the big thing is contouring. Contouring is where you basically use makeup that’s both lighter and darker than […]
You don’t have to compare yourself to the ‘pregnancy abs’ model (or anyone else, for that matter)
Before I begin I want to make it clear that I’m not interested in writing specifically about the model or her body. I don’t care if she’s healthy or not […]
On having tattoos and being a female athlete
This past weekend, my tattoo artist Derek and I started work on what will ultimately become a half-sleeve, meant to commemorate my experience at the Keys ultra. The first stage […]
I read a Harper’s Bazaar article about spinning and it made me sad
I’ve been spoiled. I’ve taken advantage of the internet’s ability to cater to any microgenre of information to immerse myself in blogs and online magazines that tend to share my […]
Moving away from the cult of the body in 2014
In recent years, I’ve made a habit of spending the last several days of the year engaged in a sort of psychological reset, which is basically a fancy way of […]
Guest post: Of Maria Kang, motherhood, and fitspiration
This guest post is written by my dear friend Suzanne Best, whose passionate reaction to this story provoked a lot of heated conversation in the blog’s Facebook page earlier this […]
Cellulite won’t hurt you, but the ‘treatments’ might
Cellulite. It’s the bane of every woman’s existence, or so we’ve been told repeatedly. Do a search for “cellulite” on the internet and the first thing you’ll see are pages […]
What happens when the pursuits of “skinny” and “strong” collide?
By now I’m sure most of you are familiar with the saying “Strong is the new skinny.” It shows up fairly regularly on fitspo images and in fitness circles as […]
Fitness is not what you look like; it’s what you can do
Yesterday on her site, personal trainer Nia Shanks addressed something that evidently bothers some of her readers: why she never posts photos of herself in a bikini. She’s gotten emails […]
