Vogue Original Shorts: Lena Dunham and Hamish Bowles star in "Cover Girl"
Why I Used to be Funnier via Start Traveling Light
"That supposed humor that I was sharing was not about laughing or making myself or others happy. The ultimate reason for humor. It was about fear of being real and hiding behind a wall of sarcasm."
Lately: Meditations on "Instructions for Living a Life" via Analiese at The Necessary Wild
"Lately, I'm astonished by my intense pleasure in solitude, by the absolute necessity of silence. By subtle messages from the universe telling me to read and write, read and write, with an intensity I've not felt in awhile. By the way a piece of literature can take my breath away, and not give it back for days."
That's What She Said {Video One} and {Video Two} via SoulPancake and Darling Magazine
"I will repeat these words until I am no longer reluctant
Until these words are a given
Until they are no longer foreign in my mouth
I will repeat these words
I have a beautiful body
I have a beautiful body
I have a beautiful body
Until ownership becomes a privilege
Until this skin becomes a perfect home
Weathered and worn over time
A perfect home
Whose walls I know well
Whose stair case
And old floors creak my favorite song
I am my own favorite song that I am just now learning all the words to
But I wanna sing you
Sing you til the song sticks
I have a beautiful body. Period."
This is a new video series on the SoulPancake YouTube channel that features real conversations with women about topics like beauty, body image, and confidence. The main reason I love the first two videos is for the AMAZING spoken word poetry by Natalie Patterson at the end of each video (see minute 5:30 in the first video, and 5:25 in the second). Transcripts for the poems can be found here: Beautiful Body and I Dare You. I highly recommend watching first and then going back and reading the words of the poems. Very powerful. Natalie is also featured in this interview in Darling Magazine.
Selfie via Dove: Campaign for Real Beauty project {video}
"Selfie captures the digital journey of a group of high school girls and their mothers, as they create a new type of selfie - one that celebrates their unique beauty." Selfies get such a bad rap, but I really love the people who discuss the power in capturing your own image. I also really identified with the discussion of how daughters pick up on their mothers' insecurities about their own bodies.
Ethical Fashion and Minimalism: A Natural Fit? via Into Mind
"Minimalism can lay a crucial foundation by encouraging us to buy less and buying higher quality. Ethical fashion takes this one step further by looking at the producers and planet, and giving us a more complete experience of the things we do own. And with that complete, satisfying experience, it becomes so much easier to own less, yet have more."
It’s Enough Already With “Giving Zero Fucks” via Life Less Bullshit
"I’ve had it with apathy – which is really just a byproduct of fear. Because if we “don’t care” then we don’t have to do anything, we don’t have to change or grow, and we never have to show up and put it all out there. Giving zero fucks is just an excuse to hide in your safe little cocoon."
Oh my goodness, thanks for the link! I'm so flattered. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing these links! Excited to watch the new Soul Pancake series and share them with the women in the #boldbrilliantbeautiful project.
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