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“How to Be the Change and Shatter Stereotypes” from Louise Green’s “Big Fit Girl” – plus a giveaway!

March 17, 2017by Caitlin 16 Comments

I was recently sent a review copy of Louise Green’s Big Fit Girl: Embrace the Body You Have and I just finished reading it last night. Louise gives her readers […]

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Guest Posts, Health at Every Size, Media and Celebrities

A lady and her bike: a BMX love story (Guest post)

January 21, 2016by Caitlin 4 Comments

  If you had told me that at the age of thirty-six I would fall in love with BMX I absolutely would have told you that was ridiculous. But that’s […]

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Bikes, Guest Posts

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
This is one of the 5Ks that I helped organize. You will see why my dad is dressed like that in the story! IT WAS FREEZING. (L-R Me, Papa Held, and my older sister)

Guest post: Five reasons to love Girls on the Run (and why you should too)

July 17, 2012by Caitlin 6 Comments

Shawna Held, a native Washingtonian, is slowly learning that the rain excuse isn’t working in California, where she moved to attend graduate school in Women’s Studies. She hopes to one […]

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Body Image Warrior Week: Sally McGraw of Already Pretty

March 1, 2012by Caitlin 1 Comment

Body Image Warrior Week continues with this post from Sally of Already Pretty.  I like to think of Sally as a thinking woman’s fashion blogger.  She loves clothes and fashion […]

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Body Image Warrior Week: Elissa of Dress with Courage (guest post)

February 29, 2012by Caitlin 2 Comments

The series for Body Image Warrior Week continues with this guest post from Elissa Stern, who writes about body image, women’s issues and style over at her blog Dress With […]

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Guest Posts

Body Image Warrior Week: We don’t have ‘problem areas’ (guest post)

February 29, 2012by Caitlin 3 Comments

Here’s another great guest post for Body Image Warrior Week, which I am participating in as a part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.  This one is from Patti of […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Guest Posts

Queer running (guest post)

February 8, 2012by Caitlin 5 Comments

Shawna Held, a native Washingtonian, is slowly learning that the rain excuse isn’t working in California, where she moved to attend graduate school in Women’s Studies. She hopes to one […]

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Guest Posts, Running

The cycling life (guest post)

December 15, 2011by Caitlin

Milisa Burke is a worker bee, a graduate student, a fencer, a cyclist, a lawn bowler, and a jaded raver. Not necessarily in that order. —- I’ve been cycling for […]

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Gender and Sports, Guest Posts

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