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" Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn't the place of white people to decide how and why those stories are created and marketed. "
Jennifer Armintrout
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" Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic preference - a preference that is shaped by our cultural perceptions of what is and isn't beautiful. "
Jennifer Armintrout
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Aesthetic
Beautiful
" Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies. "
Jennifer Armintrout
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" The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty. "
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" Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Grief
Know
Social Media
" The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity. "
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Feel
Time
Sad
" Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity. "
Jennifer Armintrout
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Young
New
" I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Editor
Only
Lose
" The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence's soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her statements reinforce our current cultural views rather than subverting them. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Ignore
Acceptance
Message
" Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body. "
Jennifer Armintrout
She
Acceptance
Body
" Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire. "
Jennifer Armintrout
American
Our
Satire
" Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Team
World
Police
" If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Need
Diversity
Justice
" Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies! "
Jennifer Armintrout
Health
Over
War
" Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.' "
Jennifer Armintrout
Change
Saying
Now
" Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Support
Come
Mind
" As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Business
Chance
Diversity
" The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Position
Attitude
Will
" It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Personal
Impossible
Death
" When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Saying
Attitude
Happy