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Georgina Grogan

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Georgina Grogan

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Georgina Grogan

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Georgina Grogan

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Georgina Grogan

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Fashion Cats

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Fashion Cats

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Electric Bikini

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Killer Bee Bikini

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Eucalyptus Bikini

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Radioactive Bikini

Individuality vs Societal change

“Feminism means not judging women’s choices” “Body positivity means celebrating people loving their bodies” These are positive, uplifting quotes. Based on celebrating and raising up…

Plus Size Male Bloggers

I’m sure you are all aware by now of my series of illustrations of Plus Size Bloggers (if you haven’t please do go take a look).…

Lindy Bop and remembering mum

It’s funny what will push you out of your comfort zone, and I recently found myself prompted into buying a dress that was a little…

#BeTheBlogger

Yours clothing have now announced the winners of the #BeTheBlogger competition. Head on over there to congratulate the winners! Glow Pink Stah What Laura Loves…

Yours stores, representation and a positive start to 2017

I just want to start by thanking everyone who liked, retweeted and shared my various statuses and tweets on the Yours clothing #BeTheBlogger competition. It…

All bodies are beautiful

She was an ugly duckling at school, teased for being bigger than the others. She wasn’t huge, but kids are cruel. She wanted to model…

#DropThePetite – or why #DropThePlus doesn’t make sense

I interrupt the scheduled interview posts to talk, again, about #DropThePlus. This will be my sixth post on the subject – don’t worry, I’m tired…

The Big Bad Anti-Diet Brigade

This is a subject that comes up a lot within the body positive plus size community, a hell of a lot. And it’s always controversial.…

Bikini Bravery

You’ve probably seen it before, when a plus size woman wears something revealing like a bikini, they are told they are “brave” or “daring”. On…

“Curvy sexylicious” vs Plus Size

I’ve written before about how important the term “plus size” is, and why dropping it isn’t actually helpful. In fact I last wrote about it…

Plus Size Nudity

Being body positive and being feminist sometimes collide in my head, one of the issues which comes up often is to do with nude bodies.…

Favourite Plus Size Outfits: Jan 2016

I told you I’d be drawing more plus size bloggers, and so here is the new series. Every month I will be illustrating six of…

#HighlightWomen | Beth Ditto

I’m starting a new weekly series to celebrate inspiring women. I’m starting with the amazing Beth Ditto! I have to confess, I am late to…

“You’re obviously not as happy with your body as you make out”

I was going to tweet about this, but realised it would be far too long to fit into even a series of tweets. In a…

Trigger Warnings

Let me start by saying, so many trigger warnings for this post. I realised I have written, briefly, about this before, but it is a…

#Ifpluswasequal

So there’ve been some excellent articles on the issues with the #plusisequal campaign by Lane Bryant, here are just a few of them.. #Plusisequal? by…

Tired of body positivity being just a marketing gimmick

Another day, another body positive campaign. They all start to blend in to one, lots of raving about how all women are beautiful, that they…

#StyleHasNoSize as long as you are this size and shape

I’d like to say I was surprised when this image appeared on my timeline this morning, I wasn’t though, I was disappointed, but not surprised.

I’m going to Style XL

In only a few days time I will be at Style XL, and I am so excited! If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a…