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		<title>Why Are We Still Whitewashing?</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/02/why-are-we-still-whitewashing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sayantani DasGupta Images matter. They matter a lot. Images on magazine and book covers not only reflect what we, as a society, think is beautiful, but they seep into our individual and collective consciousness – urging us to emulate those thinner, younger, taller, richer and yes, whiter images. Race is a critical part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gross Factor of Sex and The Typical Male Body in the Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8618</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tami Winfrey Harris Scene in question begins at 4:56. ***2/12 DOWNTON ABBEY SPOILERS AHEAD&#8230; Women are disproportionately judged by narrow beauty standards. Witness how in Sunday night&#8217;s pre-Grammy profile of Adele, 60 Minutes felt obliged to mention that the singer doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;runway model looks.&#8221; The show made clear its belief that fat women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got Milk? Angry Moms Protest Facebook’s Discrimination Against Breastfeeding</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/02/got-milk-angry-moms-protest-facebooks-discrimination-against-breastfeeding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/02/got-milk-angry-moms-protest-facebooks-discrimination-against-breastfeeding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emma Kwasnica]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ashley-Michelle Papon On Monday, Feb. 6, five dozen women flooded Facebook&#8217;s Menlo Park offices in California, challenging the social networking giant&#8217;s habit of removing photos depicting breastfeeding. In addition to waving banners informing the crowd that “Breastfeeding is NOT obscene,” and exchanging peer support, mothers took to confronting Facebook by nursing their children in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Size Activists Shed Light on Fat Shaming Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/02/size-activists-shed-light-on-fat-shaming-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/02/size-activists-shed-light-on-fat-shaming-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fat shaming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Strong4Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jennifer Jonassen WARNING CHUBBY KIDS MAY NOT OUTLIVE THEIR PARENTS. This is only one of the incendiary campaign slogans Strong4Life is admittedly using to shock parents into putting their children on diets. Other slogans include: WARNING FAT PREVENTION STARTS AT HOME. AND THE BUFFET LINE and WARNING ITS HARD TO BE A LITTLE GIRL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The LEGO Disconnect on Gender</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/02/the-lego-disconnect-on-gender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Girls]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Crystal Smith As most readers may know, there has been a huge uproar over LEGO’s newest product line, LEGO Friends. (Google it. You can’t miss it.) Regular readers [at The Achilles Effect] might also know that LEGO has been one of my favorite targets for a while now. Like the people protesting the LEGO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gendering of Food: You are what you eat!</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/02/the-gendering-of-food-you-are-what-you-eat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/02/the-gendering-of-food-you-are-what-you-eat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Body Image]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Elizabeth Ganley-Roper “Oh yes, I’m a guy  I’ll admit I’ve been fed quiche Wave tofu bye-bye, now it’s for Whopper beef I reach  I will eat this meat, ‘till my innie turns into an outtie I am starved I am incorrigible and I need to scarf a burger beef bacon jalapeño good thing down!” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You an Ugly or a Pretty? Technology, Nature, and Beauty in Scott Westerfeld’s “Uglies”</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/are-you-an-ugly-or-a-pretty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/are-you-an-ugly-or-a-pretty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body image]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sayantani DasGupta What if everyone was beautiful? No, I don’t mean inner beauty, prettiness that shines from the inside out. I mean, wide eyes, perfect noses, proportionate bodies, and symmetrical faces. The same approximate height, weight, skin color? Could making everyone look the same even the social and economic playing fields? But human variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Online Feminism Must Learn From Racial Justice</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/what-online-feminism-must-learn-from-racial-justice-frameworks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/what-online-feminism-must-learn-from-racial-justice-frameworks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Applied Research Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bell hooks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm X]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Strategic Framework for Advancing Racial Justice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Pia Guerrero Twelve years ago, I was doing social justice work through a community engagement project in a 10th grade class in San Francisco. The class consisted of kids from the Mission District and Bayview Hunter’s Point. Mission District at the time was a vibrant Latino community and a hot zone for gang activity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Hunger Games: Unlearning a Lifetime of Habits and Societal Norms with Intuitive Eating</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/no-more-hunger-games-unlearning-a-lifetime-of-habits-and-societal-norms-with-intuitive-eating/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/no-more-hunger-games-unlearning-a-lifetime-of-habits-and-societal-norms-with-intuitive-eating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breaking Free from Emotional Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating disorder]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elyse Resch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fat is a Feminist Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geneen Roth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intuitive eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susie Orbach]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Kusler Since I sat down 30 or 40 minutes ago to prepare for writing this post, I have been distracted not only by adorable cat pictures and Facebook, but also by my appetite. Twice, I’ve gotten up and made it as far as my bedroom door before deciding it’s not quite dinner time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fat Black Women Feel Good and That’s a Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/fat-black-women-feel-good-and-thats-a-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2012/01/fat-black-women-feel-good-and-thats-a-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pia</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adiosbarbie.com/?p=8447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tami Winfrey Harris Here is exhibit thirtyleventybillion of how the positive attributes of black women are twisted, folded and rejiggered to be negative through a racist and sexist lens. From the Huffington Post: Whether rooted in the old &#8220;big boned&#8221; theory or a reluctance to work out for beauty sake, researchers say that black [...]]]></description>
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