Tag Archives: Annie Leonard

More Beautiful Than You Think

By body image, communication, consumerism, emotional well-being, feminism, media, social media, well-being

I first encountered Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty a few years ago with this striking video showing the (tenuous) relationship between a billboard photo of a woman and her face without the hours of work on her and her photograph. The neck-stretching is particularly astonishing. Dove’s recent addition to this series is doing the rounds […]

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Four Things I Choose Not to Have Time For

By 31 commentsblogging, consumerism, culture, home, housework, marriage, media, money, partners, television, video

Nicholas said to me in 2005, using his sharply-tuned crap-o-meter, that saying ‘I don’t have time for that’ is, consciously or otherwise, code for ‘I don’t want to do it.’ I’ve been hyperaware of the phrase ever since. I think I’d just told him I didn’t have time for getting back into yoga. Oops. Clearly, […]

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