[in]Visible Magazine

Journal-writing is something I do for myself so that I can look back, see the progres­sion my life has taken and then look forward expectantly to new experiences to fill the blank pages. A journal can be as poorly written as the writer wants it to be and contain personal thoughts to be hidden away […]

Many have heard the term “male gaze,” which is a conscious and subconscious process by which women are viewed by an assumed male audience. This results in the sexualization and objectification of women and the curtailment of female agency. Al­though the male gaze cannot be tangibly felt, touched, or even easily defined, its practice is […]

[in]Visible Magazine was first envisioned in the Motley cof­feehouse during the winter of 2008. After attending a Health Education Oureach (HEO) – sponsored event about healthy bodies, first-years Becca Marion and Laura Passarelli were inspired; sipping warm bever­ages, they continued to discuss beauty ideals and body image is­sues in themselves and the Scripps community. They […]

Last semester, I participated in the photo booth project along with 380 people associated with Scripps. From the moment I heard about it, I was excited about the project. When Lisa Kau and I had our pictures taken in the white plastic booth, I laughed at the way the camera lens moved and rotated. I […]

Harvey Mudd senior Elaine Shaver reveals how a per­fectionist academic atmo­sphere and family influences indirectly led her to become a bulimic – and how she learned to respect her body. Has the Mudd or Claremont commu­nity affected how you view your and others’ bodies? Indirectly, I guess. Mudd in particular has a perfectionist attitude. Almost […]

I was deeply concerned with and affected by the prevalence of unhealthy body image issues here on campus. [In]Visible gives voice to the vast and varying issues experienced by young women on campus. The magazine, by illuminating this little talked about but much felt issue, will delegitimize our preoccupations with outward appearances and eradicate body […]

Women may have always been self-conscious about their bodies, but advertisements have only exacerbated the problem. Professor of Psychol­ogy Amy Marcus-Newhall notes that “advertising has a persistent message that subjugates women, whether they are aware of it or not, and all women are affected.”

For the past couple of years I’ve been toying with the idea of shaving my head. I’m not really sure how the idea first made its way into my brain, but for a long time it was in the same category as skydiving—something I “had to do in life,” with the pending “someday” attached to […]

Lucy Bosche What was your opinion of Becky before you became friends with her? When I first met Becky I thought she had a funky-cool East Coast style and was relaxed, aloof even. She still has the same clothes but the Becky I know now is pretty crazy. Initially I did not attribute many human […]

I have a compulsive drive to write down everything about and around me in a journal. I tend to forget a lot of things, so the way that I remember things – be they names, French vo­cabulary words, class notes, or things going on my life – is to write them down. Over time, by […]