The following is a post contributed by our guest blogger, Tracey DeLong.

Fact #1: I used to be fat.  Not obese – just fat.  Boys wouldn’t ask me to dance at the school dances, I borrowed my mom’s baggy clothes and I tried to get my hair as poufy as possible because I thought, somehow, that [...]

By: Rebekah

In honor of Mother’s Day, I want to discuss the ever-popular issue of girls’ clothing.  Recently, several opinion pieces have appeared shaming young girls and their parents for choices that were *too* sexy, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and the response piece from Jezebel.com.

The American Psychological Association Task Force report on the Sexualization [...]

By: Corinne

When asked to define beauty, girls often respond with descriptions of physical appearance.  I often wonder – but have not yet asked – if this physical beauty is something they think “everyone” agrees is the standard, or if they believe that beauty is defined differently in different cultures.   

In her VHI reality TV series The [...]