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	<title>Irked Magazine &#187; The Skinny on Fat</title>
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		<title>&#8220;BE YOU (tiful)&#8221;: spotlighting Erin Matson&#8217;s MPR essay</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/8962/be-you-tiful-spotlighting-erin-matsons-mpr-essay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Skinny on Fat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anorexia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, The Skinny on Fat
Quoting Erin Matson&#8217;s truly beautiful editorial for minnesota.publicradio.org:
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&#8220;I remember flipping through fashion magazines disinterestedly as a girl, never realizing the extent to which Photoshop could be used as a weapon of mass destruction.
We have all come to expect that photos of models are airbrushed in advertisements and fashion magazines. It&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crystal Renn chats with TIME Magazine about body image</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/8925/crystal-renn-chats-with-time-magazine-about-body-image/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, The Skinny on Fat, Interviews

Six years ago, Crystal Renn was an unknown size-0 model who moved to New York from Clinton, Mississippi, to make it big. She struggled with her weight for years, however, and finally made the bold decision to switch to plus-size modeling. Now a healthy 165 pounds, she is the highest-paid plus-size [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin &#8220;weigh in&#8221; on the now-famous Baby Alex insurance debacle</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/8508/laurie-toby-edison-and-debbie-notkin-weigh-in-on-the-now-famous-baby-alex-insurance-debacle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, The Skinny on Fat

Quoting Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin, writing on their always-engaging Body Impolitic blog:
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&#8220;We’ve been thinking about the story of Alex Lange, which was in the news earlier this month . . . [The Rocky Mountain Health Plans insurance company] didn’t change its mind because it thinks it was wrong: it changed its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lynne Murray fires a one-liner!</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/7643/lynne-murray-fires-a-one-liner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Regular Contributors, Lynne Murray, Themes, The Skinny on Fat
Quoting regular Irked contributor Lynne Murray, commenting on Laurie Toby Edison&#8217;s Body Impolitic blog:

A New Yorker cartoon I liked a lot (and lost so I don’t have the creator’s name) shows a man sitting on the metal table in the paper gown while the doctor looks at his file [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Singer-Songwriter Julia Barry, Creator of the Advocacy Program &#8220;In Her Image&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/3458/meet-julia-barry/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/3458/meet-julia-barry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Irked Audio, Irked Videos, Themes, The Skinny on Fat
Julia Barry is the creator, musician, and director of the experimental advocacy program, “In Her Image:  Producing Womanhood in America.” She works with high schools, colleges, organizations, community centers, and conferences to promote widespread, public media literacy. A &#8220;REALLY Hot” awardee in the 2006 REAL Hot 100 list, Barry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documentary about American photographer Laurie Toby Edison</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/3465/documentary-about-american-photographer-laurie-toby-edison/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/3465/documentary-about-american-photographer-laurie-toby-edison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Irked Videos, Themes, The Skinny on Fat

Watch a fascinating 20-minute documentary about American photographer Laurie Toby Edison by Kyoto, Japan-based filmmaker John Wells. Edison speaks with Rebecca Jennison about her work in conjunction with the exhibition &#8220;Meditations on the Body&#8221; at the Osaka National Museum of Art.


Laurie Toby Edison is an internationally exhibited photographer, jeweler, and sculptor.
She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generation XXL, the film</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/2120/generation-xxl-the-film/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/2120/generation-xxl-the-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, The Skinny on Fat, QuIrked Kids, Irked Videos


Synopsis: GENERATION XXL follows Vincent, Kat, Raya and Greg as they attend a Fit Intervention Program aimed at improving self-esteem and teaching healthy eating. As they confront their pounds and themselves, we learn what it&#8217;s like to be an overweight teen—the butt of jokes, bullying, and nasty slurs. We soon realize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love your body. Hate its industry. By LA Crompton</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/997/love-your-body/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/997/love-your-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, The Skinny on Fat, Art Gallery

Love your Body. Hate its industry.
Empowering Art by LA Crompton

 
Since gaining victory over her 10-year battle with an eating disorder, LA Crompton has been working to help others achieve freedom from weight obsession. She has shared her testimony of recovery in High Schools and Youth Groups in the New York area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Don&#8217;t Count Food Points in Front of the Children, by LA Crompton</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/820/please-dont-count-food-points/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/820/please-dont-count-food-points/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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Please Don&#8217;t Count Food Points in Front of the Children
 by LA Crompton
It occurred to me this morning, while absentmindedly eating a discarded bowl of Winnie the Pooh cereal with a child-sized purple plastic spoon, that my eating habits have changed somewhat since becoming a mother. The realization sent me to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women En Large &amp; Familiar Men: Body Image Photography by Laurie Toby Edison</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/802/laurie-toby-edison-photographer/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/802/laurie-toby-edison-photographer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, The Skinny on Fat, Art Gallery

Women En Large &#38; Familiar Men
Body Image Photography by Laurie Toby Edison  
Says Laurie: Women En Large is my statement on the female nude, at least for now, and Familiar Men is my statement on the male nude. The five years I spent photographing men and talking with them transformed my vision of masculinity in [...]]]></description>
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