Today, the National Organization for Women Foundation celebrates its 14th annual Love Your Body Day — a day when women of all sizes, colors, ages and abilities come together to celebrate self-acceptance and to promote positive body image. Since the launch of Love Your Body Day in 1998, NOW Foundation has used the campaign to challenge the unrealistic beauty standards and gender stereotypes promoted by the media, Hollywood and the fashion, cosmetics and diet industries.
Today we are hosting a Love Your Body Day blog carnival, featuring voices from across the Internet.
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Love Your Body Day: A Woman’s Body Politic, by Erin Matson, NOW Action Vice President Huffington Post
Do You Care For Your Hair?, by Erin Shields, NOW President’s Intern, Say It, Sister!
Love Your Body Day: Candy and Pumpkins and Skimpy Oh My!, by Rachel Sandler, NOW/PAC Intern, Say It, Sister!
Body Hatred Is A Serious Issue, by Katie Kopania, NOW Policy Intern, Say It, Sister!
The Dark Beauty’s Struggle, by Charundi Panagoda, NOW Communications Intern, Say It, Sister!
Some Parents Have Well-Intentioned But Misguided Ideas About Child Beauty Pageants, by Elissa Heller, NOW Field Intern, Say It, Sister!
Five Surprising Ways to Love Your Body This Halloween, by Ashley-Michelle Papon, Adios Barbie: The Body Image Site for Every Body
Reasons why you should feel good about your body, by Kate, Eat the Damn Cake
Love Your Body (In Spite of Yourself) , by Mary N., Just Cancer: I Have Cancer But It Does Not Have Me
Want to love your body? Respect it first, by Caitlin, Fit and Feminist: A feminist’s take on health, wellness and fitness
On I Love My Body, by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser, Valley Advocate
How I Learned to Love My Body, by Lisa Sendrow, former NOW Policy Intern, YoungSwatFeminist
Love Your Body Day, by Kaitlyn, The Tie Dye Files: Proudly displaying my lifestyle to the world
Love Your Body Day: Nine Good Reads, by Anna Clark, Isak: Celebrating Tales and Truth
Love, Honor and Appreciate Your Body, by Katherine Mullen, Feminist Conscience
All Bodies are Goofy; All Bodies are Beautiful, by DeeLeigh, Big Fat Blog
No really, it’s you not me. , Wong Vivant: Exploring DC through a foodessy
Panther Responds ~ Loving What My Body Does, by aimlesspanther, Feminaust ~ for Australian Feminism
Love Your Body Day: Fashionably Late, Add It Up / AddItWigg.com
Loving My Body, by Robin, HitchDied.com
Love Your Body Day, by Brea, Contentedly Crunchy
A Necessary Discussion of Body Image, by Marisella Rodriguez, Former NOW Communications Intern, What the ERA Means to Me
Love Your Body Day: A Young Professionals Perspective, by Cassie Donahoe, South Suburban Young Professionals, OakCreekPatch
Fat Karma: Recovery from the Diet Paradigm, by Heidi, Adventures in Multiplicity
Love Your Elbows, Raccoonnookkeeper: Thoughts on the complexities of life, love and bananas
Sorry I’m Not Sorry, Clean Eating Chelsey
Girls are meant to be curvy…., by Amanda, Poppies and Ice-cream
I Love My (Fat) Body, by Jill, Real Live Revolution
Loving Our Bodies, Loving Ourselves, TheMoodyMuse
Mirror Images, by Kitty, PurrVersatility
Because I Love My Body, by Susan Klement, Susan’s Musings: A little bit of everything.
Love Your Body Day, by Jaime Collins, University Decisions Lecture Hall Blog
*Quick! Name three of the worst things you see…, by Dania Sacks March, MPH, MSW, PPSC, At The Intersection: Cause You’re Not A Kid Anymore
You Only Get One, After All, by Amy T., Ineffably Lilith/GrrrlRevolution
Love Your Body Day 2011, Takes if SWAGing
Have You Thanked Your Body Today?, Hello Ladies
How I Learned to Love My Body, by Jamie Fleming-Dixon, For Colored Gurls
Three Ways to Love Your Body, by Emily Mangieri, A Lovely Little Life
Airbrushed Skinny, One Hot Crumpet
That There Is Some Magical Shit, Rosie Says
Have You Loved Your Body Today?, by emlit81, I Came To Run: A Journey Through Life, One Mile At A Time
Love Your Body Day 2011, by Nicole Kubon, Decadent Depravity
Love Your Body, don’t jump off a cliff 🙂 , by MsKOgden, Adventures in Breaking your Back
A Letter to My Body , by Krystal, Power Femme
Let’s Talk About Hair, by Joyce, National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
How I Learned To Love My Body, by Caroline Bright
Grateful, Noticing the Gap: A Feminist Perspective on Inequality
Lesson #69 , by Lesa, Lesa’s Life Lessons
A Love Letter to My Body, Cheap is Expensive
Love Your Body, Love Your Berries, by Lynn Chen, The Actor’s Diet
My Body: A Lover’s Tour, by Sherry Jones
Love Your Body Day 2011: 5 Ways To Celebrate, by MrsMenopausal, Weighing The Facts
Love Your Body Day! , by Meredith Stokke, MC, LPC, NCC, Food For Thought
Ten steps for falling more deeply in love with your body, by Lisa Faulkner, PhD, Pole Dancing Professor
#SorryImNotSorry, by Elizabeth Beaulac, Outreach Intern, National Women’s Law Center Blog
Today is Love Your Body Day!, by Chloe Angyal, Editor Feministing
Happy Love Your Body Day – and End Fat Talk Week!, Curvaceous Woman Yoga
6 Simple Steps to Gorgeous–No makeup, plastic surgery, or Photoshop necessary., by Lisa, Life Bliss Solutions
Squash the A.N.T.s in Your Head, by HealthyFabRose, HealthyFab20s!
Learning to Love Your Body, by Marsha, A Weight Lifted
Celebrate Love Your Body Day, by Patricia Biesen, ChicagoNow.com
Love Your Body Day , by Talia bat Pessi bat Feige bat Ita bat Gittel, Star of Davida
Loving myself in to love , by Samantha C., Simplifying Sam: An exploration of a life out of control and the struggle to reign it all back in.
Learning to Love my Body, by Cat von Hassel-Davies, Cat Rambles: A German born Yankee living under Carolina blue; reading, writing, & loving it
Youth, Body Image and Aging, JeanOfAllTrades
The Plan to Eventually Love My Body, by Abigail Collazo, Fem2pt0
Love Your Body Day!, Women’s Studies Intern, Fmaily Violence Prevention Center, One in Four…
Loving the body, feminine and otherwise, The Radical Housewife
Celebrate Love Your Body Day This Week, by Ximena R, Care2
budgeting for your body, Dimepiece
Love your body in more ways than one., by Lara Frater, Fat Chicks Rule
Compassion for yourself? This post is part of the 2011 Love Your Body Day Blog Carnival, fabrications of my life in technicolor
Celebrate Your Body!, by Heather Shuttleworth, TriSec Blog: News and Information from Falmouth Institute for Tribal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Mmmmmm….Boobies! , by Amanda Janik, PAIR-RANTING
An Ode to the Allender Girl, by Elisabeth Crum & Jennifer Krafchik, Sewall-Belmont House & Museum
Love Your Body Day!, by Angela Zhang, the Dartmouth Center for Women & Gender, and Student Groups’ blog The Dartmouth Smart Mouths
Loving Your Body Throughout Life, by Joanne Tosti-Vasey, President, Pennsylvania NOW Education Fund
Celebrating Love Your Body Day with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, by Rachel Piazza
Love Your Body Day, by Caitlin, Cait Plus Ate
Fat Talk Free Week and #LoveYourBody Day #EndFatTalk #bodyimage, byJanet Zimmerman, a University of Memphis Nutrition Student and Schilling Nutrition Therapy, LLC Intern, Born to Eat!
Love Your Body, In My Stylish Yet Affordable Boots
Love Your Body Day, by Robin Long, The Balanced Life
What Do You Love About Your Body?, Fitness & Feta
Fat is Not a Feeling: Love Your Body Day + Fat Talk Free Week, Becmoming a Better Woman From the Inside Out
Love Your Body., by Molly, Women’s Health Foundation Community Blog
Leave Our Labia Alone, by Dr. Debby Herbenick, My Sex Professor: Sexuality Education
Love Your Body Day: Feeling Good About Sex, by Planned Parenthood League of Mass., Friends With Benefits
Architecting Your Space As An Act Of Love, Wheelchair Dancer
Love Your Body. Today and Every Day, WIN Writing Group
Show Your Body Some Love, by Aleigh, Indigo + Canary
Love Your Body, The Swede Lowdown
Do We Have to Make Body Love the Goal?, by Autumn, The Beheld
It Took Me 40 Years, But I Love My Body!, by Karen C. L. Anderson
Selling Thin in China, by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Seeing Through Perfection, Those Graces
Love Your Body! Right. Now. , Life of Something New
Happy Love Your Body Day! , Sherights: Just another pro-woman site
Loving My Body One Orgasm At A Time, 3rd Wave in the 2nd City: A Blog for Today’s Chicago Feminist
Love Your Body Day, NOW-NYC’s FIGUREatively Speaking
Love Your Body Day, by Nadine Ffeldman, A Woman’s Nest
It’s Love Your Body Day! Here’s How to Celebrate, Proud2Bme
Love Your Body Day, THE 21ST CENTURY HOUSEWIFE
Let’s do it for the girls, The Sin City Siren: A feminist outpost in the desert
Body Backlash, by Cheryl
Love your Halloween costume, by Suzanne Scoggins, Take Back Halloween!
October 19: National Love Your Body Day, by Joanna Meriwether
My Body My Friend, Mindful Movement
LOVE YOUR BELLY!, by Princess Farhana
Love Your Body Day, on NOW NYC’s Not Cool!
I Love My Body – With All Its Imperfections, Diary of a Fab Girl
HAPPY LOVE YOUR BODY DAY, EVERYONE!, by Golda Poretsky, H.H.C., BodyLoveWellness.com
#Love Your Body Day!!!, by Julie the SONY Student Ambassador at Case Western Reserve University, #SONY
BODY POLITIC: Love Your (NonNormative) Body , by Kyla Bender-Baird, Girl With Pen
Loving Your Tall Body, Living It Up Tall!
How I learned to love my body, A Sweet Release
How a tiny body taught me how to embrace my own body, by Lindsay, Snarky Mom
How Do I Love Thee Body, Let Me Count the Ways…, by Debra Ann Elliott, High Heels and Hot Flashes
Children’s Body Image Awareness, Reflexions
If He Could Get a “Hot” Girl, Why Would He Want a Fat Girl?, by Heather Corinna, the Ms. magazine blog
The HAES Files: Can I Love My Body and Still Want to Lose Weight?, by Deb Burgard, PhD, healthateverysizeblog, The Association for Size Diversity and Health
How Universal Is Disordered Eating?, by Lena Chen, The Ch!cktionary
Taking Back Your Body, Communications of a Fat Waitress: an idealistic diatribe from a fat feminist
Obesity is Not the Problem, Dances With Fat: Health Comes In All Shapes and Sizes
Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Stop Dwelling on Your Non-Existent “Flaws”, by Cristina F. Connors, Size And Substance: Smart Women Speaking Out About Body Image
L*O*V*E, by Connecticut NOW, Speak Out, Sister!
Love Your Body, by CitrusCollision, Breathing for a moment… In the Midst of the Forest
Two-Faced: The Reflection of a Woman, by Kate Fineske, Mothers Central
Ways To Embrace Your Curvy Figure by Stephanie Penn-Danforth, Editor-In-Chief, Daily Venus Diva
Love Your Body Day, by Dr. Deah, Fierce, Freethinking Fatties
Words of Love, by Dr. Deah, Leftovers: The Ups and Downs of a Compulsive Eater
Celebrate Love Your Body Day with a Body Positive Scavenger Hunt!, Communications of a Fat Waitress: an idealistic diatribe from a fat feminist
How I Learned to Love my Body, Prime Time Wellness Blog: Tips and Inspiration for Living a Life You Love
LYBD is BACK!, Write What U Know
My Birthday Gift to Self…, De Mon Lit… musings. utter honesty. hopeful epiphanies