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#BrilliantBabe Aubrey Gordon Gets Real About Fat

What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat

I just discovered Aubrey Gordon.

And I love her.

Aubrey is a fat activist. She thinks we need to get more comfortable saying the word fat.

It’s just a descriptor. And she’s well aware that it accurately describes her. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe Aubrey Gordon Gets Real About Fat

#BrilliantBabe: Barbie

barbie and the pleasure principle

We’ve got to talk about Barbie.

By now, many of you will have seen the movie of the summer.

It made history by breaking the $1 billion mark just three weeks into its run.

Why is Barbie so popular? [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Barbie

#BrilliantBabe: Curvy Supermodel Ashley Graham

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[Photo Credit: Behind The Velvet Rope TV CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons]

Ashley Graham walked into a department store.

She wanted to treat herself. As she perused the Valentino and Roland Mouret [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Curvy Supermodel Ashley Graham

#Brilliant Babe: Entrepreneur Whitney Wolfe Herd

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She founded a billion dollar company. She has her own Wikipedia page. She’s been on the cover of Forbes. Her wedding was featured in Vogue.

And she was no slacker in college, either, studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and working with orphanages in Southeast Asia. [Read more…] about #Brilliant Babe: Entrepreneur Whitney Wolfe Herd

#BrilliantBabe: Pleasure Revolutionary Mama Gena

Mama Gena

(Photo credit: Chloe Crespi)

Regena Thomashauer was finally divorced.

She’d given her engagement ring back to her ex-husband, even though she could have sold it for a few thousand—money her lawyer knew she needed. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Pleasure Revolutionary Mama Gena

#BrilliantBabe: Suffragette Victoria Woodhull

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photo credit Mathew Brady – Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum

The first female presidential candidate ran on a platform of pleasure. (Nope, not Hillary Clinton!)

Her name was Victoria Woodhull, and she believed in the scandalous proposition that women had the right to leave loveless marriages. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Suffragette Victoria Woodhull

#BrilliantBabe: Mother (& Tennis Star) Serena Williams

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photo credit Edwin Martinez
Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Link

I can’t say I have been intimidated by anyone.”[1]

How many of us can say that?

But Serena Williams said it. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Mother (& Tennis Star) Serena Williams

#BrilliantBabe: Painter Amy Sherald

painting

After facing death, facing Michelle Obama was no challenge.

Still, Amy Sherald said, it was stressful.

Her portrait of the former First Lady would make history. Could she stand up to the pressure?  [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Painter Amy Sherald

#BrilliantBabe: Model Maye Musk

maye musk

What’s your life going to look like at 70?

I can imagine sitting in an armchair, reading. Looking out the window at my beautiful garden, which I have all the time in the world to tend.

With any luck, I’ll have grandchildren who come over and eat my freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies.  [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Model Maye Musk

#BrilliantBabe: Activist Tarana Burke

Me too movement

This is the story of how a little girl named Heaven started the Me Too movement.

No, it didn’t start with Harvey Weinstein.

It didn’t even start in Hollywood.

It started with a camp counselor who couldn’t find the words to tell a little girl she wasn’t alone. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Activist Tarana Burke

#BrilliantBabe: Makeup Guru Bobbi Brown

no-makeup makeup

I wake up every morning and put on makeup.

I didn’t used to. The most I used during my teens and 20s was some tinted lip balm.

But there came a point in my 30s when I didn’t look like me anymore. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Makeup Guru Bobbi Brown

#BrilliantBabe: Game Developer Brianna Wu

Brianna Wu

Brianna Wu just wanted to make good games.

She co-founded the indie game development studio Giant Spacekat in 2010 with the mission of creating “stories for everyone.”

“I wanted to bring something to market where the women were the heroes, not an afterthought,” she explained. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Game Developer Brianna Wu

#BrilliantBabe: World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher Täo Porchon-Lynch

Every once in a while, someone comes along who can’t be real.

Like Susan Boyle, whose audition for Britain’s Got Talent broke the internet at over 100 million views in 10 days.

The most incredible performances come from those we dismiss outright. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher Täo Porchon-Lynch

#BrilliantBabe: Shame & Vulnerability Researcher Brené Brown

Owning your story can be hard

Brené Brown was having a breakdown.

She’d gone to her therapist with an Excel spreadsheet. She had six weeks, she explained. She needed more of the traits on this list and less of the traits on that list.

“Nothing deep,” she added. “No childhood crap or anything.” [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Shame & Vulnerability Researcher Brené Brown

#BrilliantBabe: Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor Kris Carr

Your posse

It’s your worst nightmare.

You wake up feeling like you’ve been hit by a truck. You go to the doctor and he tells you it’s your gallbladder.

You don’t have time to be sick. You’ve got a modeling and acting career to pursue. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor Kris Carr

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