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This Woman Risked Death to Go Topless

Shahla Khan Salter | Posted 04.05.2013 | Canada
Read More: Shahla Khan Salter, Raelians-Topless, Public Nudity, Fashion Industry, Salt Spring Island, Modesty, Amina Tyler, Muslims for Progressive Values, Patriarchy, Femen, Canada News
Shahla Khan Salter

A 19-year-old woman, named Amina Tyler, who lives in Tunisia, was threatened with stoning after she exposed her breasts in a photo she posted online, scribbling the words -- "my body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone's honour" -- on her torso in Arabic.

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One Mother's (Exhaustive) Search for Gender-Neutral Clothes

Jane Tolmie | Posted 11.25.2011 | Canada Living
Read More: Pink, Vogue, Fashion Industry, Boys Clothes, Shopping, Sex, Blue, Childrens Clothes, Fashion, Gender, Canada Living News
Jane Tolmie

In days of shopping I was unable to find attractive colourful unisex clothing for my son in main street/mainstream stores. So may I say three words to the fashion industry: Get over it. It is soul-crushing and mindless to force children to differentiate their sexed bodies in such limited and limiting ways.

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The Demystification of Glamour: How Working in Fashion Made Me Love My Body

Gail McInnes | Posted 10.19.2011 | Canada
Read More: Fashion, Style, Body Image, Women and Body Image, Models, Self Esteem, Fashion Industry, Kate Moss, Size Zero, Nadia Auermann, Self Love, Overweight, Canada News
Gail McInnes

Who would have thought being surrounded by hundreds of beautifully, purportedly perfect human specimens would have made me love my body? My image-obsessed 17-year-old self would never have thought so.

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