Bodies – Beautifaire

20 Sep

Moody Month: the app designed to assist women higher

For hundreds of years, there was a stigma surrounding periods: from 73 AD when the primary Latin encyclopedia implied that contact with menstrual blood would mean “crops turn into barren”, “fruit of trees fall off” and “hives of bees die”, to the current day where tampon tax still stubbornly stays casting tampons into the category of “luxury.” Periods are still in lots of cases a taboo, so Moody Month is here to vary that. Founded by Amy Thomson, Moody Month is a mood and hormone cycle tracker designed to assist women higher understand their bodies, filling the void of female produced, female-focused technology. The tech company built by women, for girls, was created with the concept our moods shouldn't be suppressed or...

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11 Aug

The Fat Zine is an ode to the fantastic

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As I open up a PDF containing previews from the The Fat Zine – a freshly-launched publication created by fat-positive writers Gina Tonic and Chloe Sheppard, for fat people – the very first thing I see is a picture of a model called Elyonna Mone. Within the photo, which was shot by Izzy Jackson, Mone’s backside takes centre stage. She’s within the shower as gentle drops of water trickle down her frame. It strikes me that even on this age of supposed ‘body-positivity,’ it’s very rare to see images of fat bodies from behind. That's, from angles that is perhaps considered “unflattering.” It’s especially rarer to see such images of fat, Black bodies (or other bodies of color). Here, though, drips...

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10 Aug

The Fat Zine’s recent calendar celebrates beautiful fat bodies

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The Fat Zine’s recent calendar celebrates beautiful fat bodies

The Fat Zine, a publication founded by photographer and artist Chloe Sheppard and author Gina Tonic, has released a calendar celebrating fat-positivity. Founded earlier this yr, The Fat Zine is an ode to the great thing about fat bodies, and explores the nuances of what it means to be a fat person in 2020. “It becomes quite tiring seeing people who find themselves a size 12 bend over to create rolls then post about it on social media and get celebrated for being ‘authentic’,” Sheppard told Dazed Beauty on its release back in March. “To make this zine which calls that stuff out, and is an area where fat people really will be whatever they wish to be, felt necessary, and...

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28 Jul

The Fat Zine’s latest calendar celebrates beautiful fat bodies

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The Fat Zine, a publication founded by photographer and artist Chloe Sheppard and author Gina Tonic, has released a calendar celebrating fat-positivity. Founded earlier this 12 months, The Fat Zine is an ode to the great thing about fat bodies, and explores the nuances of what it means to be a fat person in 2020. “It becomes quite tiring seeing people who find themselves a size 12 bend over to create rolls then post about it on social media and get celebrated for being ‘authentic’,” Sheppard told Dazed Beauty on its release back in March. “To make this zine which calls that stuff out, and is an area where fat people really might be whatever they need to be, felt necessary,...

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