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Revolution Heather Christian Revolution is a quarterly, mainstream magazine devoted to celebrating body positivity and diversity. The front cover is similar to other women’s lifestyle magazines, but there is a crucial difference with Revolution, which is the striking image of a woman whose body has not been photoshopped, with body positive slogans written all over her. This woman is not the typical size or shape of models often used in mainstream women’s magazines, but Revolution is a magazine dedicated to embracing bodies not normally shown in the media. There isn’t enough content on body positivity, despite the huge amount of internet users looking for it. This is the reason I set up my own blog on the issue. As market research, I asked several of my readers what they thought about Revolution and the response was unanimously positive. One of my readers said “I would pay a lot of money for something like Revolution... to have a physical symbol of the body positive community in my hands would be absolutely priceless.” 21