NYU AlaAuH2O is hosting a third and final fashion show fundraiser for Obama on Friday, October 24. This show will be at KABIN in the East Village, 92 2nd Avenue, at 10pm. As in the previous AuH2Obama shows, all models will walk the runway in Obama wear. The designer will be selling Obama tops for […]
Entries Tagged as 'Body image'
Striking a pose for Obama!
October 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Politics · Your body · Body image · Fashion · Your style
“Surfing The Crimson Wave” and the Web
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Instead of loathing the return of my beloved (and often uncomfortable and painful) monthly visitor, I have decided to embrace our long-term relationship and track my periods online. I love Mon.thly.info, a website where I am able to track and predict my period and ovulation cycle for free. This site is the best period related […]
Tags: Your body · Body image · Check this out!
Guest Blogger: Casey McNulty
June 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Editor’s note: Guest blogger Casey McNulty is a senior at Boston University. She’s interned for CosmoGIRL! and has worked on her school newspaper. She writes a blog for the Albany, New York newspaper the Times Union, where a longer version of this blog post is published (so you can also weigh on the […]
Tags: Sex · Media · Body image · Check this out! · Writing
Skin Deep
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Last year I read Judith Stone’s book titled, When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race. This text is a true story about Sandra Laing, a light brown skinned woman who visibly appears to be “mixed-race” or “colored” according to South Africa’s former apartheid caste system was born in Piet […]
Tags: Sex · Race · Politics · Your body · Body image · General
Guest Blogger: Lisa Marie Basile
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments
My good friend and partner in crime Lisa Marie Basile is going to be writing a weekly column for us at GHQ, and I honestly couldn’t be more excited. Lisa is a writing and editing pro who interned at CosmoGIRL! last year, is working on a novel, and will be the editor-in-chief of our […]
Tags: Girl power · Media · Politics · Body image · Activism · National issues · Sexism · Ideas · Femininity
walking away
April 8th, 2008 · No Comments
I should be paying attention to my Human Sexuality Professor, but unfortunately my computer is distracting me (and normally I do use it for note taking in class). But taking a glass half full approach, if my computer wasn’t such a distraction, I would not be able to share with you this heartbreaking account […]
Tags: Growing up · Media · Celebrities · Your body · Body image · Activism · Check this out! · Femininity
miss bimbo
March 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
And I thought it was disgusting that young boys were playing video games that encourages them to kill women in order to receive “health points”. Then my friend showed me an article about this website game called Miss Bimbo. Described as a “fashion” game, this game encourages young girls (the majority between the ages of […]
Tags: Growing up · Sex · Media · Your body · Body image · Activism · Ideas · Check this out! · Femininity · Ewww!
millionaire match”hater”
February 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Okay, I need to vent. It’s a cloudy and snowy Sunday afternoon and as I am hugged tightly by two of my down comforters, I am excited to find a light Sunday afternoon movie (think You’ve Got Mail). Well as I click pass the college basketball games, and episode of Friends and several […]
Tags: Girl power · Relationships · Media · Body image · Ideas · Check this out! · Television · Femininity · Ewww!
I’m a REDHEAD!!!
December 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Hey everybody, guess what my newest most wonderful endeavour is!!!!!!!!!Yesterday I dyed my hair red!!! I am naturally a dirty blondish color, and am now a light/reddish/firetruckish auburn. I LOOOOOOOOVE IT!!! I have had pink and blue extensions, but never actually done something this drastic and IT ROCKS!!! I am offically very hardcore. lololol. Anyways, […]
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Onslaught
November 12th, 2007 · No Comments
I am working on the Fashion & Beauty Communications Milestone at SU. It’s such a unique and interesting program that allows me to study History of Fashion Design (even though I’m not in the Art & Design school) and Beauty & Diversity in the Media. At least, that’s what I am studying this semester. […]
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