[in]Visible Magazine

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 […]

I grew up in two very different households. My par­ents divorced when I was seven. My mother had pri­mary custody of me, but I still saw my father at least once a week. My parents are two very different peo­ple—my mother is extremely liberal and self-aware, while my father is extraordinarily conservative.

Professor Gail Abrams has taught in the Scripps College Dance Department for 23 years. She is cur­rently team-teaching a CORE II class called “The Embodied Self: Feminist Theories of Body, Yoga, and Dance” with Professor Leigh Gilmore. The class explores expression through body movement in yoga and dance, as well as the role of gender […]

Professor Abrams studies the mind-body connection by analyzing body movement. “The body,” she explains, “has an innate intelligence which is often interfered with by outside influences” that create mis­alignment, patterns of tension, and inefficiency in body movement.