Pretty and Petrified

Photographs By: Kate T. Parker

“You don’t need to be pretty, perfect or compliant to be loved.”
Kate T. Parker: Photographer

The above diptych (which I put together) is from a book of photographs by Kate T. Parker, Strong is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves.


https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/sale/deals-of-the-week/books/inspiring?EMS_SEG=SEED&EMS_MT=OL&EML_TOKEN=63D2FCF3-0A09-4B0F-9310-CC12723116E4&EMS_MID=EML_2017_08_21_DOTW21_TAR&EMS_CID=260738886
Hillary Kate and Malala at Inidgo Chapters
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The book came out in 2014, but I just got my weekly email notification from Indigo Books for a 30% reduction! I guess no-one is buying the book (anymore).

And it is a diptych alongside Hillary Clinton's What Happened, where:

Hillary tells the story of what it was like to be the first woman nominated for president in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, kooky theatrics, Russian interference, a maddening inattention to serious issues, deplorable (yes, deplorable) bigotry, and an opponent who broke all the rules.

Hillary failed! And the folks at Indigo's publicity department are clueless to the irony of juxtaposing "strong girls" with a weak (failed) woman!

So much for feminists.

Below is what Kate T. Parker posted on her blog about her photographs:

My girls know that who they are is just perfect.

Their silly, adventureous [sic], frustrated, happy, LOUD, athletic, fierce, funny selves.

Being themselves is enough for us. And ultimately, for them, too...that’s the goal, at least.

They don’t need to have their hair done, clothes matching, or even be clean to be loved or accepted.

We love them as they are, loud, dirty, competitive...just like my parents loved me for being um, the exact same way.:)I wanted this series of images to show their boldness, their strength and the beauty in them, as they are.

Strong is the new pretty.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/03/living/strong-is-the-new-pretty-kate-parker-photography-parents-feat/index.html
Parer and her husband encourage their kids to "go outside and play and get muddy, play soccer, do a triathlon, go jump in the bushes."


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3031145/Kate-T-Parker-transforms-candid-images-daughter-s-adventures-empowering-photo-series-celebrating-girls-strength.html
'My kids are this, you know? Athletic and strong and dirty and loud and crazy,' she told the outlet. 'That’s what I’m trying to celebrate.'



When the Today show shared Ms Parker's story on their Facebook page yesterday, it was liked nearly 25,000 times and inspired hundreds of parents to post photos of their own daughters doing the things that they love.
'Already a fierce little girl! Girls play in the mud and with sticks too!' Mary Kenyon wrote of her daughter.
'Determined and strong that's what all girls should be made of!' Cheryl Koscielniak Brzyski added.
Meanwhile, Charlotte Yarbrough Knowles noted: 'My daughter is amazing. She is intelligent, funny and so filled with potential. In our world, it is hard to be a strong woman, but she is finding her way. I cannot wait to see what she will do.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3031145/Kate-T-Parker-transforms-candid-images-daughter-s-adventures-empowering-photo-series-celebrating-girls-strength.html