Tag: body positivity

• Check this Board out on Pinterest!

  

  I started this board on Pinterest and I am inspired by it so I thought I would share.  Enjoy the images of all these beautiful people.   I thought you’d like this Board on Pinterest… https://pin.it/52oolr4puswrgx

  shannoninkansascity

  March 21, 2019

  African Americans, Black Hair, Black Women, social media

  beauty standards, Black Children, Black Men, Black Women, body image, body posi, body positivity, brown eyed, Brown Eyes, challenge, dark hair, dark skin, Pinterest, self image

• International Women’s Day

  International Women’s Day was Friday, March 8.  I thought nothing of it on Friday because I don’t know how to observe the day.  Do we go shopping, bake a cake, have a parade or what?  Beats me. But over the weekend I ran across a video on YouTube of an Air Force service woman complaining […]

  shannoninkansascity

  March 11, 2019

  African Americans, Black Women, Feminism, social media

  African Americans, Air Force, Black womanhood, Black Women, body positivity, Feminism, International Women’s Day, self image, Washington Post, Women’s Day, YouTube

• False Ideals – Shannon in Kansas City

  We are taught to love, uphold and strive for ideals.  The media and the culture at large teach us about ideal beauty.  We should all want to be thin, young, have long hair and be White, or at least the Whitest version of what your ethnic group can provide if you are a non White person.  We are told […]

  shannoninkansascity

  February 19, 2016

  Uncategorized

  Beauty, body image, body positivity, Christianity, Exodus 20:3-3, ideals, image, media, Psalms 146:3-4, Romans 3:23

• #bodypositivity – Shannon in Kansas City

      #bodyposi is a popular social media hash tag which encourages women to be comfortable with and love their bodies.  The hash tag is often accompanied by a photograph of a nearly naked young woman.  I am completely in favor of women feeling good about themselves regardless of their body shape, height or ethnic […]

  shannoninkansascity

  February 11, 2016

  Uncategorized

  1 Samuel 16:7, body positivity, Christ, Christianity, Colossians 3:11, Exodus 20:3, Galatians 2:20, James 4:14, media, self image, Vanity, Women