CNN, The Talk, Huffington Post and many other valuable media outlets have finally caught on to how “inspiring” a plus size body can be in the spotlight. Each conversation, blog post, and promotional spot featuring a women with no thigh-gap has one thing in common: they mention how that person is healthy and beautiful. As if…
I have never been skinny. There is a common misconception that Latinas get a “free pass” to be curvy or larger, yet my experience as someone growing up in Puerto Rico has been far from that. I grew up being an awkward, chubby girl and was teased for being bigger than my female classmates. At the…
I’m an illustrator with a love for fashion and beauty illustration, but I’ve been getting so bored of seeing the same type of figure represented over and over again. Fashion illustration seems stuck on skinny white women, when in real life these women make up a tiny portion of society, and there are…
I started off this Spring season searching for the perfect Summer bathing suit. Shopping, as a size 22/24 meant learning to navigate the fashion world was a skill, as well as a necessity. I might have began my bathing suit search once the sun made it’s first appearance after Winter, but I was, truly, many moons late in starting.…
A day of taking outfit photos for my personal blog turned into a full on Bitchtopia photoshoot. My best friend, Christian, and I felt super glam and super romantic snappin’ shots outside of a local high school. These cute cyber collages (+2 extras!) represent our inner monologues as we strutted our stuff in the educational…
“Pizza Slut” is acrylic based on wood. It’s pretty self-explanatory: she loves pizza and doesn’t care who knows it! She loves the cheesy goodness and finds herself in heaven when she is around pizza! The artist is Veronica. She is a Miami based artist. You can find more of her art work on Facebook:…
Fat visibility has been rising at a rapid pace. Even Cosmo has started to advocate for body positivity, which means hell froze over, and we are living in a positive, post apocalyptic world. Special K, known for their exclusive cereal diet, decided to jump along on the body talk bandwagon. Special K teamed with Tyra…
Cosmo, a ladies’ mag seen in most feminist circles as almost synonymous with internalized sexism, whose once-groundbreaking inclusion of content geared toward sexually liberated women now regularly features sex tips seen as laughable or damaging, seems to be making some bold improvements. For a magazine that boasts 200 million readers annually in 100 countries, even…
Update: June 4th, 2020 – Torrid has since rebranded since this rebrand. You be the judge. In my desperate attempt to land a job, I had an interview with Torrid. Torrid is one of the largest, most successful plus size stores on the market. I had worked for them in high school, when Tripp and…
I know. Your body looks different. It has changed, and along with your life, your jeans fit a little more snugly than you had anticipated. Maybe more than you like. Maybe you hate it. You were a size X for such a long time, you’d grown accustomed to the shape your skin had taken, and suddenly,…
