[in]Visible Magazine

Senior Claire Richmond describes her battle against wedding weight-loss advertisements that have been targeting her ever since she became engaged.

One would assume that Coco Chanel did not real­ize that she would be setting a decades-long international trend when she stepped off her friend’s yacht in 1923. As the famous fashion designer stretched her dark, suntanned legs on the mainland again, explaining that she “had been in the sun too long,” a slowly evolving trend […]

I never thought I’d have the courage to do it, but here I am, publicly describing the reservations I have about my own hair. See, I have what I like to call, “nappy hair.” This hair texture consists of fierce, comb-breaking, neck-snapping, mama-sweating, gut-wrenching naps that make a normal black woman absolutely dread waking up […]

Once, in high school, I remem­ber leaving the fitness center at my athletic club to follow the sounds of clunking metal and peek into the weight room. Though I recognized many of the contraptions and movements practiced there, looking at the bulky men, three times my size, pulling, lifting, and grunting, I got the distinct […]

Hallelujah! We are finally starting to talk about it. Sex, that is. We’re admitting that it’s out there, that it happens, that we’re curious. Women are proudly declaring themselves sexual beings beyond the roles of wife or mother. While it is important to cel¬ebrate this discourse and recognize the progress made in past years, one […]

Skinny is to beautiful as obese is to… Ugly? Repulsive? Lazy? The ease with which such words come to our minds speaks to the embarrassingly seamless connection that has developed between fatness and all of its negative connotations. However much our obsession with appear­ance has progressed since the olden days of pow­dered wigs and foot […]

While developing positive self-image is essential, it’s also important to think about the world outside one­self. As Scripps students, we owe much of our great opportunity to learn and become beautiful, empowered women to the endless work of the staff at Scripps. Whether it’s the housekeeper who cleans the blackboards three times a day or […]

On April 24 of last semester, a sunny spring promised a warm and lazy summer while classes were doing anything but winding down. In the midst of this crossroads of spring fever and culminating studies, 150 copies of [in]Visible Mag­azine made their way to dorm and Motley Coffeehouse ta­bles, Sallie Tiernan Field House magazine racks, […]

Countless forms of media have been devoted to exploring the female body ideal and to highlighting the extremes to which some women will go to achieve these socially accepted expectations. However, little information is readily available addressing how men feel about their perceived obligations to fulfill a certain body ideal. Do men experience the same […]

Hair. Leg hair. Sophomore Laura Passarelli smiles as she rubs her fingers lightly over her shin. “It’s fuzzy,” she says, “but it feels natural.” Laura’s hair, which has grown four months without blade, wax, or cream applied to it, is hardly noticeable. As she sits on a couch in the Dorsey living room, she is […]