Ellie Krupnick of mic.com on the new Poly Life smartphone app. Looks pretty cool, but I’m not trading in my Google Calendar just yet. Read about it here.
Category Archives: From the Web
From the Web: The BMI is a Big Fat Scam
Check out Kiera Butler’s article for Mother Jones on Why BMI is a Big Fat Scam. Been saying this in my body image lectures for years, the BMI is bullshit. According to it, I’m currently overweight, borderline obese. The last time I was at the high end of normal, per the BMI, was the same […]
From the Web: Sex and the Theater: An Actress Bares All About Onstage Nudity
Nice article by Rachel Manteuffel about nudity in theater from the Washington Post. It caught my eye because the photo of the author looks like it could have come from my Bare As You Dare: Radical Body Acceptance Workshop, which I’ll be taking to Dartmouth University next week. More on that later.
From the Web: 5 Myths About Polyamory
From livescience.com, February 14, 2013: 5 Myths About Polyamory by Stephanie Pappas,
From The Web: Be Beautiful: How 30 Days Nearly Naked Changed My Life
From the Huffington Post, September 18th, 2013: Denise Jolly’s journey to redaical body acceptance.
From the Web: Wreck Beach’s Bare Buns Run
“Runners compete in the Bare Buns Run, a 5 km clothing optional run, at Wreck Beach in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday August 10, 2014. Wreck Beach is the Canada’s first and largest clothing-optional beach.” Photographs by: Darryl Dyck, from theprovince.com, August 10th, 2014
From the Web: 10 Reasons You Should Go Naked NOW
10 Reasons You Should Go Naked NOW by Jesse Herman from spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com. Also by Jess Herman, “The Naked Truth.”
From The Web: The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society
One of my favorite things currently in existence is The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society. It’s a group of ladies in New York City who take advantage of their state’s laws allowing women to be topless anywhere that men are by (among other things) gathering in public parks to read books, topless. After all, […]
From The Web: Can We Pray the Polyamory Away?
I’ve been saying for years that religious conservatives (whether they will publicly admit it or not) see the writing on the was about marriage equality for same-sex couples and are already sharpening their knives for polyamory. Case in point: Can We Pray the Polyamory Away? by Jennifer LeClaire from charismanews.com June, 19th 2014.
From The Web: It’s Time to Rethink Monogamy
Screw the Fairy Tale, It’s Time to Rethink Monogamy The current model of lifelong, cohabiting monogamous partnership has never been such an outdated ideal. By Helen Croydon April 24th, 2014