Tag: women

• Shopping for Wedding Dresses When You’re Fat

  There are a lot of things I was concerned about when my mother told me we would be going wedding dress shopping on her next visit. I was afraid that she would say some part of my body was too fat and that comment would swish around in my brain like a spin cycle. I […]

  Jessica Puente

  April 26, 2016

  People, Pop Culture, women

  body image, feminism, plus size, wedding, women

• How a train station changed how I look at my body

  I started working in downtown Los Angeles 7 months ago. I still live about 60 miles away so I take the Metrolink train into town every day. Union Station is a huge hub for transportation. There are buses, trains, railcars, and the underground metro. You can pretty much get anywhere in LA county and some […]

  Jessica Puente

  February 23, 2015

  People

  beauty, body image, gender, los angeles, people, stereotypes, women

• An open letter to Pharrell Williams

  Dear Pharrell, I’ve loved you since I saw that creepy red dog on the N.E.R.D album and the days when I couldn’t stop singing She Wants to Move in the shower. To this day, the word Mister makes me want to pop my shoulders in an awkwardly rhythmic way. I have to be honest and […]

  Jessica Puente

  April 25, 2014

  People, Pop Culture

  Blurred Lines, GIRL, misogyny, music, Pharrell Williams, pop culture, Red Bull, Red Bull Magazine, Robin Thicke, sexism, video, women

• Why I don’t want to go to your gender segregated baby shower.

  I don’t want to go to your gender segregated baby shower not because of the silly games where I have to pretend I give a shit about the color of your baby room, or because I have to listen to everyone tell me 2014 will be the year I find a husband, or because everyone […]

  Jessica Puente

  December 19, 2013

  People

  baby showers, gender, gender bias, gender segregation, gender stereotype, men, people, segregation, women