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What we talk about when we talk about women and aging

December 30, 2015by Caitlin 37 Comments

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 […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Uncategorized

Runner’s face: When beauty culture gets stupid

April 2, 2015by Caitlin 43 Comments

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 […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards

You don’t have to compare yourself to the ‘pregnancy abs’ model (or anyone else, for that matter)

March 13, 2015by Caitlin 20 Comments

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 […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards

On having tattoos and being a female athlete

June 25, 2014by Caitlin 67 Comments

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 […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Women and Muscles

I read a Harper’s Bazaar article about spinning and it made me sad

April 10, 2014by Caitlin 27 Comments

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 […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Media and Celebrities

Moving away from the cult of the body in 2014

January 2, 2014by Caitlin 49 Comments

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 […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Heart and Mind

Guest post: Of Maria Kang, motherhood, and fitspiration

October 17, 2013by Caitlin 55 Comments

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 […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Guest Posts, Running

Cellulite won’t hurt you, but the ‘treatments’ might

July 24, 2013by Caitlin 37 Comments

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 […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Fighting the Woo

What happens when the pursuits of “skinny” and “strong” collide?

May 21, 2013by Caitlin 285 Comments

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 […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Fitness Industry Fails

Fitness is not what you look like; it’s what you can do

February 1, 2013by Caitlin 20 Comments

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 […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Women and Muscles

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