"Men and women have to put on mental armor every day to deflect the pointed barbs and subtle hints that we should wax away hair, lose twenty pounds, and have bigger breasts or a larger penis."
~Tammy Vitale & Heather Bartlett

Archive for July, 2009

Artomatic 2009

Jul 28th, 2009 by Heather | 0

Here are some random images from the Body Politics exhibit at Artomatic in DC this year.

I hung Tracy’s Invisble Yardstick higher this year and I think as a result more people interacted with it.

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Unreliable Ally

Jul 24th, 2009 by Heather | 0

“A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.” –Leonard Cohen

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Artful Skinny Jeans Adventures

Jul 23rd, 2009 by Heather | 0

Wonderful post by Sue over at Artful Adventures about our Farewell to Skinny Jeans project.
Buried Treasure-Part 2
Here’s my offering for Seth’s second round of Buried Treasure, over at The Altered Page. The project that you’ll be reading about is still going on, so it’s not too late to participate. Sometimes it takes awhile to actually [...]

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Looking for a Few Vaginas

Jul 23rd, 2009 by Heather | 0

I am working on a new project and I need models who are willing to have their yoni photographed.
I am curious about how women feel about the way their vagina looks.  How it functions.  If they are happy with their vagina or if their opinion has changed over the years about it.  Do you wax?  [...]

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No Fat Chicks…er…Doctors

Jul 23rd, 2009 by Heather | 0

I am so sick of all the judging. This woman is not only, at least by press accounts and US Government vetting process, highly qualified for the position of Surgeon General, she seems like a genuinely good human being.
Here are some articles you can read regarding the controversy of impeccably credentialed and cherub-faced surgeon [...]

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Ads Can Really Annoy Me

Jul 9th, 2009 by Heather | 0

Sometimes ads just get on my last nerve.  These were on Facebook.  My 15 year old daughter is convinced that the “woman” in black shiny “pants” is a statue or something.

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