I’ll be live blogging from the Fabulosity event at the Minneapolis W Hotel on August 7! I’ll be there from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Let me know if you’re planning to stop by.
I contributed to Corrine’s series on successful blogging, talking a bit about the value of guest posts.
Aaaaand the good folks at Songza invited me to create a playlist! If you dig my weekly Groove Your Body feature, you’ll dig this mix. Plus you can add more songs to it yourself!
Shelby Knox’s post on her day as an anti-feminist (role) model is incredibly moving. (Via The Demoiselles)
31 bloggers will share the same LBD for the entire month of August – another fun online remixing project!
Is the revival of 50s styles encouraging women to recreate an aesthetic from a time period that was incredibly oppressive? Franca opens up the question of whether vintage dressing may have unintended feminist implications.
College Fashion has started a classic must-haves list project, and I think the picks are fascinating. How many of these are on YOUR list?
Not safe for work, as there is loads of glorious nudity, but please do check out The Natural Female Form if you’d like to see bodily diversity in action.
A brief history of nail polish.
“When you say ‘I’m so fat’ what you are saying is that your looks, your body are the most important thing about you. And “fat” is the worst thing that you can be. It’s reinforcing the idea that the value a woman brings to any relationship or situation is ultimately her looks. We are so much more than this.”
Looking for some hairstyle inspiration? ELLE’s got a slideshow of cuts and styles that should get you brainstorming your next ‘do.
Eat the Damn Cake declares that thinness is the baseline for other beauty. Do you agree? (Via The Demoiselles)
The Academichics have created a printable PDF cheat sheet for color pairings. Brilliant!
Newsweek discusses how your looks can affect your career path. (Via Interrobangs Anonymous.)
A College Candy reader earnestly shares her journey to self-acceptance.
I had forgotten about this fantastic bit of puppet feminism from Sesame Street. (Thanks to mimi for the reminder.) Clowns, cooks, bus drivers, authors, alligator hunters, police officers … there’s nothing we women can’t be! I love that the song encompasses the gamut of career and life choices.
Look magazine interviewed the ladies from Kingdom of Style … then asked to leave Queen Marie out of the feature because she was too old for their reading demographic. At age 44. BAH.
And from the Department of Random, Jane Austen’s Fight Club. It will make WAY more sense if you’ve seen the movie Fight Club about 97 times. Which I have.
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The Natural Female Form is effing amazing. Sweet Sal…thank you.
I always love these links – thank you!!
Ohmigod – I can't decide if I love or hate the "Department of Random" item!
Thanks, too, for all of these lovely links.
I can't say that the "pretty people earn more money/respect/friends" article surprised me at the beginning. That's not really news. But the following sentence really blew me away:
"Asked to rank employee attributes in order of importance, meanwhile, managers placed looks above education:"
What a load of horse puckey! Queen Marie is awesome! I feel the urge to write a highly critical e-mail to those jerkfaces.
Oh my, love Jane Austen Fight Club. Thank you for that (and for the whole wonderful Lovely Links post that I look forward to every week).
I loved Franca's post about the 1950s. She always writes with such intelligence!
Re: Queen Marie being left out – I am appalled!!!
Jane Austen's Fight Club is awesome!
Totally loving Jane Austen's Fight Club.
And totally not loving Look magazine's attitude. What is that about?
Well, its a good thing fight club wsa introduced, if only to have something to fall back on when those sea monsters and zombies appear.
As both a fight club, and Jane Austin (parody?) lover, thanks so much!
I was just catching up and watching the JAFC video and the feminist muppets which made me think of my fav, Free to be You and Me. Not 10 minutes later, that song showed up on a Target commercial during The Good Wife.