Sam Smith just dropped the music video for "I'm Not Here to Make Friends" and it’s receiving a lot of media attention – but not all of it is praise. In a world where patriarchal beauty standards dictate which bodies are to be sexualised and publicly applauded, Sam is seemingly taking a stand and calling out the double standards with their latest music video. Sam’s been clear about their desire
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A study conducted by the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate demonstrates how easily vulnerable teenagers can quickly have their body image disturbances reinforced by the popular social media app TikTok. Researchers created several fake accounts of differing vulnerabilities by modifying TikTok use and found an overwhelming amount of content that fuels eating disorders and those with suicidal ideation. “Within 2.6 minutes, TikTok recommended suicide content. Within 8 minutes, TikTok
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Christmas can be such a challenging time in eating disorder recovery, whether you have Anorexia, Bulimia or Binge Eating Disorder. A time of year that everyone else seems to be excited about, for you can feel anxiety provoking and overwhelming. And because everyone else finds it so exciting, you might feel that you can’t speak up about how you’re feeling. Whether it’s difficult because of the attention towards food, the
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The Christmas season is a time for celebrating, coming together with loved ones, enjoying delicious holiday foods, and somehow also talking shit about our bodies and eating habits. Whilst social eating, giving gifts and diet-talk all happen all year round, the holidays add an extra festive helping of shame, and guilt as people seem to comment unprovoked about their weight, or your weight, the diet that they’ve been on, the
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On 2nd November, New York Post released an article titled ‘Bye-bye booty: Heroin chic is back’. Idolising of the thin ideal is problematic enough, but to define women’s’ bodies as fashionable or not, based on thinness is just so gross and so outdated.AS FASHIONFashion trends come and go. They include changes in clothing, makeup, interior design, language, film and television; things that we can choose to engage in. Not the
