“Nah.” —Rosa Parks, 1955
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Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ huge hit is really resonating with Tumblr.
Hahahaha JK. IT'S A GREAT SONG.
Les femmes et les adolescentes blanches ne sont pas les seules concernées.
Une image corporelle négative est un facteur important d'apparition des troubles alimentaires, mais ce n'est pas le seul. Beaucoup de personnes qui souffrent d'anorexie ou de boulimie présentent aussi des troubles psychiatriques, comme la dépression, les troubles anxieux et les TOC, et les mécanismes de privation, de boulimie et de purge sont souvent une façon de faire face. Il ne s'agit donc pas seulement d'une tentative extrême de perte de poids ; c'est un trouble psychiatrique reconnu, que l'ont peut diagnostiquer et donc traiter.
Une étude publiée en 2012 dans le Journal international des troubles alimentaires a identifié des symptômes de troubles alimentaires chez 13 % des femmes interrogées, toutes âgées de plus de 50 ans. 66 % d'entre elles ont déclaré avoir un problème avec leur apparence générale. Les troubles alimentaires touchent tous les âges, mais comme ils sont souvent associés aux adolescentes et pré-adolescentes, ils peuvent provoquer un sentiment de honte chez des femmes plus âgées qui luttent avec ce problème – en particulier chez celles qui se définissent comme des féministes.
Bien que des études aient établi que seulement 10 à 15 % des anorexiques et des boulimiques étaient des hommes, ce nombre est sans doute sous-évalué. Une étude récente publiée dans le British Medical Journal (BJM) suggère que l'anorexie et la boulimie se développent de plus en plus chez les hommes et qu'ils représenteraient près de 25 % des cas. Cette étude de 2011 montre que l'alimentation compulsive est aussi répandue chez les hommes que les femmes. Les hommes cherchant moins à se soigner, ils sont moins représentés dans les statistiques. L'avocat Brian Cuban, un ancien boulimique, évoque son expérience dans la vidéo ci-dessus.
L'idée circule que les femmes de couleur ne sont pas touchées par les troubles alimentaires, parce que le lien établi entre beauté et minceur est, historiquement et culturellement, une pratique de blancs. Mais ce n'est tout simplement pas vrai. « Nous constatons que les filles afro-américaines sont en train de devenir de plus en plus susceptibles aux troubles de l'alimentation, et cela semble être un phénomène post-intégration », explique Melissa Harris-Perry dans cette vidéo. « De plus en plus de jeunes femmes noires subissent à l'école à une pression très forte quant à l'idée d'un corps idéal auquel les filles afro-américaines ont dû mal à se conformer. »
Tumblr can be a place to rejoice over strange and delightful internet ephemera, but it can also provide an earnest and affirming community for anyone dealing with mental health issues.
“Did you just ask for Jordans?! When I was little, I didn’t have feet!”
Welcome to the first episode of BuzzFeed’s new podcast Another Round. Grab a drink and come kick it with us!
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Another Round is basically happy hour with friends you haven't met yet. Grab a drink and yell along with your preferred electronic device as we talk about everything from pop culture to squirrels to racism to sexism to male strippers to literally everything.
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Each episode is chopped up into random segments with names like "What Had Happened Was," "The Clapback," and "White-Man-On-The-Street."
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On this episode we discuss origin stories, white people telling white people jokes, and play a few rounds of drunken debates. Subscribe on iTunes!
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Sorry, Drake. Stay strong.
We were definitely not really drunk when we took this picture.
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On this week’s episode we talk about racist frats, spoken word, and chat with Issa Rae about Awkward Black Girl and her new HBO show.
We talk about everything from her new show to her book to her favorite brand of lipstick. And we laugh, a lot.
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Yeah. We were really sad too, Barry.
Right!
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All clapbacks are bloops but not all bloops are clapbacks. I say it’s time bloops get their moment to shine.
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Happy Bloop History Month, everyone! What is Bloop History Month, you ask, beautiful reader? Well, it's a celebration of bloops - those onomatopoetic moments when you witness or read a response so sharp, all you can utter is "bloop". Much like it's rhetorical counterpart, the clapback, the bloop often takes the form of a viciously accute comeback. But it is not necessarily always the case. In fact, a bloop can arise simply from a really well articulated observation or a casual aside in conversation. Basically, all clapbacks are bloops but not all bloops are clapbacks. Got it?
Isn't Bloop History Month just a random holiday you made up, you ask? To which I can only respond, yes, my beloved reader, you are correct. But aren't they all???
I say it's time we celebrate the figures, large and small, who have bequeathed great bloops upon our nation. A bloop can come from the pontification of historical figures like W.E.B Dubois or the internet ephemera of some rando on Tumblr and I say it's time we remember, not all heroes wear capes.
Now follow me as we frolic through some historic and contemporary examples throughout bloop history:
"What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity."
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"The honor, I assure you, was Harvard's." –W.E.B. Du Bois, upon being congratulated for being the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard.
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On this week’s episode: Tracy talks about #WhatHadHappened at her first Klan rally and we chat with Gene Demby, lead blogger at NPR’s Code Switch team, about the whiteness of the “public radio voice.” Subscribe on iTunes!
Gene is a Philly native who loves running, ice cream, and tweeting about how 83% of society's ills can be linked to housing discrimination. Watch him in action here!
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Except we're black and not animated and at least two of us are not ducks.
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With Gene working in public radio and the two of us venturing into the podcast world, we had a lot to say about finding our voices and navigating seemingly white spaces.
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The Jane the Virgin star will make you swoon in multiple languages.
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He was also People en Español's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2007 because, duh.
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On this week’s episode: East African feminism, the joy of frolicking through Tumblr, and another sloppy round of drunken debates. Subscribe on iTunes!
No, Geico camel, it is not hump day. Everyday can't be hump day, we've talked about this.
If you like feeling smart and being enlightened and laughing and generally enjoying life, follow Hannah on Tumblr and on Twitter!
On this weeks episode: Hillary’s presidential announcement, questions for white people, and we chop it up with Twitter’s resident Shakespearean fool @desusnice. Subscribe on iTunes!
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Update: PLEASE DON'T LEAVE US!
The falling panda is us. All the other ones with a general understanding of how gravity works are Desus.
On this week’s episode: self-care in the wake of never-ending police violence, dealing with hair microaggressions and more of Tracy’s corny jokes. Subscribe on iTunes!
Tracy, for example, got her nails done for the first time since prom as part of her pampering plan. They were cute then but they look like this now.
Note: this episode was recorded before the most recent events in Baltimore, which is why it wasn't mentioned or referenced by name.
As with most things in life, ask yourself: “What would Oprah do?”
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As professional women of color, my girlfriends and I are constantly dishing about work over booze and greasy food. In my mind, it's the cheaper, browner, better version of Sex and the City (aka Girlfriends, duh). I cherish these moments because it's such a luxury to have this space for communion. We laugh about absurd microaggressions in the workplace, compare wounds and horror stories, and share survival strategies for navigating spaces that weren't meant for us. Inevitably, the problem of impostor syndrome and compliments comes up.
Even in the most affirming spaces, compliments give us trouble. We don't quite devolve into the absurdist tennis match of flattery that Inside Amy Schumer depicted, but we're definitely not that good at accepting praise. Compliments are sticky and intimate in a way that's revealing. Compliments force you to engage with the uncomfortable idea of how others see you — and even more uncomfortable — how you see yourself. So even though compliments are part of the minutiae of work and personal relationships, their power and weight should not be underestimated.
After all, "humility" and "gratefulness" can be coded for marginalized peoples — symptomatic of a larger erasure. When you enter a space in which you have historically not existed (like many of my friends' schools and workplaces), you are supposed to be humble and grateful just to be there. Which, you are. But you are also often angry and hurt and have questions, the kind of criticism that gets undermined when you deny or downplay your value out of politeness.
It has been a journey, but I have reached a point where I am not stumbling over my existence whenever someone compliments me. As with most things in life, I ask myself, "What would Oprah do?" There are a million Oprah interviews I like to share with my girlfriends, but there's one in particular that I like to share with them when we are talking about being better at taking compliments. In the corpus of glorious interviews Oprah has bequeathed the world, it might seem underwhelming. But there's a brief, subtle, and informative moment in there that was, for me, life-changing. It comes at the very end of an hourlong Hollywood Reporter roundtable featuring some of the biggest actresses of the 2013 Oscar movie season. (Because that year included the release of 12 Years A Slave, Fruitvale Station, and The Butler, this roundtable included an unprecedented *THREE* women of color: Lupita N'yongo, Octavia Spencer, and Oprah Winfrey. That's right, The Hollywood Reporter actually passed the Racial Bechdel Test!)
At the 50:15 mark, Julia Roberts praises Oprah and her impact on American culture, as one does in Oprah's presence. Do you know what Oprah does when she hears the billionth compliment of her life? She smiles, looks her complimenter in the eye, and waits patiently for her to get out the compliment. Then she says, "Thank you, that was my goal." Simple, direct, kind, and intentional, Oprah's line proudly confirms Bullock's assessment, while — yes — humbly hinting that it was no accident. She worked for it.
I shared Oprah's strategy with my girlfriends because, to paraphrase Lilo from Lilo & Stitch, "squad means family, and family means no one get's left behind." And because every girl squad has its own lines and mantras that get passed around, I asked my colleagues and writers I admire about their relationship to compliments.
Here's what they had to say:
It’s like a bunch of advertising execs had a meeting and said, “What if you could fuck everything?”
On this week’s episode: The beginning of a never ending list of ways men gotta do better, the art of the clapback, and the wisdom of the inimitable Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah.
This episode is another we taped in the weeks before our launch but the words she preached are timeless so it's okay!
Heben and Tracy provide a chorus of "mmmm" and "speak on it!"
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Our love is real, dammit!
On this week’s episode: the emotional labor no one ever lists on job requirements, a listener question about unrequited love, and a chat with the coding wunderkind Kaya Thomas.
Kaya is the creator of We Read Too, an app intended to serve as a resource for anyone seeking children's books by and about people of color.
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On this week’s episode: 90s black sitcoms transformed into musicals, translating tramp stamps, and an interview with Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood.
*turns up with some cheeseburgers*
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