Hood femme: self love in the purest form
Walking into a beauty supply store in the hood is like walking into a parallel universe. Cheap bright lipsticks grab your eye immediately. Hair hangs from the ceiling. There is …
Self-Love Week
Self-love in: The Year We Thought About Love
Co- written by Lyne Dwyer Boston’s True Colors: OUT Youth Theatre is America’s oldest queer youth theatre. During the 2012-2013 school year, Ellen Brodsky took her camera into their rehearsal …
Self care as radical resistance: a short guide
What is self-love? How do we quantify the steps we can take to achieve it? This is a complex question that also has to take into account various ways in …
Social media, self-love and mental illness
Co- written by Tyler Majer The Negative: Social media is an interactive medium that has grown at a speed quicker than anything that human beings have encountered in the past …
Body positivity: A whole lotta love
Obesity has been declared a crisis in America. At the same time, eating disorders are becoming more widespread, starting at younger ages than ever before. Eating disorders such as anorexia, …
Eat a sandwich
Eat a sandwich. How many times have I heard those three words? Felt those three knives? Are you anorexic? No, are you? It’s amazing how people feel that they have …
Amy Jane Von Purr on bringing burlesque to Self Love Week
After the success of last autumn’s ‘Babe-Lesque’, Amy Jane Von Purr is once again bringing Burlesque worskhops back to Sadleir with a free, one night workshop during Self-Love Week then …
The light on the other side
I love Valentines Day. For me, Valentines Day—and in our lovely city of Peterbourgh, Self Love Week—stands as a reminder of exactly how much better things can get. In high …