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Body Image and Self-Esteem

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Seventeen Magazine Is Being Protested Today!

    For Photoshopping its spreads! Just about any publication on earth could be accused of that, but in this case, the protest is about demanding that young girls' bodies are shown as is, so as not to promote eating disorders or other self-esteem issues. Of course, the spreads consist of models who do ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 14, 2011

    The Servant

    For Photoshopping its spreads! Just about any publication on earth could be accused of that, but in this case, the protest is about demanding that young girls' bodies are shown as is, so as not to promote eating disorders or other self-esteem issues. Of course, the spreads consist of models who do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    Getting A Flu Shot? I'm Not!

    ​And I explain why in this Paper mag roundup of downtown celebs and whether they regularly get shots to shoo the flu away or simply take a wild and wacky chance on phlegm. Some fly right into their flu injections, while others flu directly over the cuckoo's nest

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Don't Be Single Anymore! VH1 Matchmaker Tells You How!

    There are so many reasons people who desperately don't want to be single are still as alone as a '90s boy bander. But according to Siggy Flicker, the matchmaker star of VH1's Why Are You Still Single?!, numero uno is that they don't present the best version of themselves on dates, self-sabotaging w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    The People You Date Are the People You Can Date, Science Says

    Spoiler: This film has no basis in science.​Good news for people who date people! Generally, the people you want to date are people who might want to date you, people of the same "desirability" and/or "hotness"! Does this, perhaps, seem sort of untrue based on your recent dating history? Well, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 15, 2011

    FEEL THE HEAT

    Celebrating 20 years of the city's best gay theater

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Gender-Expression Discrimination Bill Might Actually Pass in State Senate

    ​The Gender Expression Nondiscrimination Act (or the cute "GENDA" for short) is a bill that recently made its way through the state assembly, and is en route to being passed. The bill enhances protections against gender identity discrimination - say, for example, trans-gendered employees - wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    Nude Cheerleading Coach Teaches Lesson About Our Troubled Youth

    At the Times Judith Warner explains to an astonished readership that young thugs who call despised peers "fag" are not necessarily implying homosexuality, but merely signifying disdain. "It's what being called a 'girl' used to be, a generation or two ago," she says. Actually, back then it was "fag ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 5, 2008

    TRANSFORMER

    Playing dress-up is actually a profession

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2008

    The Truth About De-Evolution

    Devo interrupt your dodgeball game

  • Film

    February 26, 2008

    Penelope

    Not a bad lie to buy

  • NYC Life

    April 17, 2007

    Weighting for Lefty

    Solving for Malcolm X at a Brooklyn confab

  • Film

    July 11, 2006

    'Boys Briefs 4'

    Solving for Malcolm X at a Brooklyn confab

  • Film

    June 6, 2006

    'The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green'

    Solving for Malcolm X at a Brooklyn confab

  • Film

    March 21, 2006

    'Adam and Steve'

    Solving for Malcolm X at a Brooklyn confab

  • People

    November 1, 2005

    Reading Is Fundamental

    Books to Beat the Beauty Blues

  • Screens

    July 12, 2005

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