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		<title>When Self Worth Becomes the Biggest Loser</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/05/when-self-worth-becomes-the-biggest-loser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Body Image]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Allison Epstein (Intern, 2013) On the inside, I’m still about 7 years old. There’s a shelf in my bedroom dedicated to Disney movies. When I’m stressed, I’ve been known to break out coloring pages. I’m still a little upset that I didn’t get my Hogwarts letter when I was 11. I look back on my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: A Review and Q&amp;A with Author Kjerstin Gruys</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 14:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Body Image]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=11209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Kusler After body image activist and UCLA Sociology PhD candidate Kjerstin Gruys got engaged, she searched frantically for the perfect wedding dress – only to end up with not one, two, or three white dresses, but four. This was a wake-up call not only financially (given her graduate student income), but also at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking about Periods: Removing Menstrual Shame for Social Justice</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/05/talking-about-periods-removing-menstrual-shame-for-social-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Kibera Girls Soccer Academy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=11143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sayantani DasGupta In most countries, there is a culture of taboo and secrecy around menstrual health and hygiene. Just think of all those ridiculous commercials for sanitary products that allow you to engage in activities ‘without anyone knowing’ you are menstruating – even if you are wearing white spandex or leaping in the air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lyrical Lacerations, from NWA to Rick Ross</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/lyrical-lacerations-from-nwa-to-rick-ross/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/lyrical-lacerations-from-nwa-to-rick-ross/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Literacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=11089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Anne Desrosiers Rappers make songs under the creative licenses of their whims, songs are released, and sometimes these songs top the charts. Other times they become catch phrases that become part of urban lexicon, and other times they create a firestorm of criticism and backlash. Certainly ever since music has been made available to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boston Attacks Unleash Viral Racism</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/the-boston-attacks-unleash-viral-racism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/the-boston-attacks-unleash-viral-racism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Race, Ethnicity and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACLU]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=10969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ashley-Michelle Papon The country is still reeling from the attacks in Boston. At present count, three people have died and over 180 have been injured from detonation of the dual bombs that shook the Cradle of Liberty just a few hours into the annual Boston Marathon. The shock hasn’t worn off, even as authorities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Transgender Comic Character Does Not Erase Gay Censorship</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/new-transgender-comic-character-does-not-erase-gay-censorship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/new-transgender-comic-character-does-not-erase-gay-censorship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBQ and Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alysia Yeoh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Lippincott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Batgirl]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Doonesbury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fredric Wertham]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Garry Trudeau]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SAGA #12]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seduction of the Innocent]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=10901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ashley-Michelle Papon It’s a banner year for women in comics. Just three months after comic powerhouse Marvel announced their intention to reboot the classic X-Men series with an all-female line-up starring quintessential 90’s teen Jubilee, DC Comics has upped the ante with the revamped Batgirl series. Already featuring title character Barbara Gordon as a lesbian, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BMI in Schools: Educating Children in Self-Loathing, Not Health</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/bmi-in-schools-educating-children-in-self-loathing-not-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/bmi-in-schools-educating-children-in-self-loathing-not-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science, Health and Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BMI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Body Mass Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body shaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fat shaming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[moral panic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=10838</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sayantani DasGupta I don’t know how, as a pediatrician, mother, and body politics activist, I missed it all this time. But, I recently learned something that rocked my world in an avalanche of outrage and horror. I was preparing to give a talk at The Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Enough to Absorb the Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/big-enough-to-absorb-the-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/big-enough-to-absorb-the-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating Disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[binge eating association]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=10823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Lori Blough, Writing/Publishing Intern (2013) I’m fat. I’m actually more than fat.  I’m morbidly obese.  And I have an eating disorder. I’m not anorexic or even bulimic, though the heavens know I certainly prayed for that in my early teens, as awful as that sounds. I would have rather had some disease, some cancer, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mama Needs a New Vag? Plastic Surgery Trend Preys on Post-Pregnancy Vulnerability</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/mama-needs-a-new-vag-plastic-surgery-trend-preys-on-post-pregnancy-vulnerability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/04/mama-needs-a-new-vag-plastic-surgery-trend-preys-on-post-pregnancy-vulnerability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Esteem]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[birth trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandi Glanville]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=10796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ashley-Michelle Papon If you’re not familiar with Brandi Glanville, consider yourself lucky. The one-time model and current star of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” rose to a mediocre level of celebrity as the woman scorned by established B-lister Eddie Cibrian. In 2008, Cibrian, after nine years of marriage, jilted Glanville for country singer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging Gracefully in a World of Anti-Aging</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/03/aging-gracefully-in-a-world-of-anti-aging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2013/03/aging-gracefully-in-a-world-of-anti-aging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acceptance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[botox]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgia Okeefe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=10789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sally McGraw My girl Audi made this request: I’d love to see you do a piece about embracing our bodies and faces as we age. It bums me out to see so many attractive women succumbing to the pressure to look “younger” through cosmetic surgery and Botox and all that. You’ve written a lot [...]]]></description>
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