Not Your Movie Villain: Fighting The Masculinization & Vilification Of Women With Visible Scars

Visible scars — especially facial ones — are often associated with “tough guys” or evil movie villains. These stereotypes can be harmful, limiting, and painful to face for real-life women and girls with visible scarring. It’s time to stand up for those with visible scars and tell the world that they’re not your movie villain. They’re beautiful, diverse, and complex people, and their scars are simply one more part of that complex beauty.

A Brief History Of Beauty - How Beauty Was Seen In Ancient China

China’s definition of “beauty” has undergone many changes over the millennia, and Chinese women have taken up countless fashions, regimens, and styles in order to be seen as beautiful. Join us as we take a look at the way beauty rituals and ideals have changed throughout Chinese history - and take a look at the future of Chinese fashion as it harkens back to a not-so-distant cultural past.

Damned If We Do, Damned If We Don't: Exploring Society's Judgment Against Women Who Undergo Cosmetic Surgery

We have a love-hate relationship with cosmetic surgery. We love the results of plastic surgery, but we tend to hate on the women who go out and get it. Why is that? Join us as we explore the issue of women’s beauty and our unfair judgment against those who seek to get it through surgical means–because we all have the right to feel beautiful, however we achieve it.