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Merida

May 15, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Merida Returns- Campaigns Do Actually Work but More To Be Done

So in case you missed it, the other day I was talking about body image in media, and Disney and their portrayal of Merida from Brave was a hot topic. They had decided for her integration into the official princess pantheon to change her to the smoothed down version (left) from the original Disney/Pixar version […]

May 14, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

A&F and Disney and Teen Body Image

So I was on a much needed vacation last week with That Guy and came across a twitter post from a friend about a campaign against Abercrombie and Fitch. Now, I was never an A&F teen: we could never afford the clothes, and I could never fit in them in even if we could have […]

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