Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...

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Professional dancer Akira Armstrong had a pretty big idea in 2008 after enduring multiple unsuccessful casting calls. The plus-size Bronx, N.Y., native, who has been dancing since she was 8 years old, ...

Akira Armstrong, a former backup dancer for Beyonce, decided to create ‘Pretty Big Movement’ after realizing there was no platform for full-figured women in mainstream media. I toured the White House ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A law in New York City, a major dance capital, that protects artists against weight and height discrimination aims to give everyone a fairer shot. Members of Pretty Big Movement ...

You'd have hoped, by 2020, that the days of spewing hatred towards plus-size women on the internet might be gone. But it seems there's no such luck, as 29-year-old Chloe Elliott knows all too well.

Dancer Akira Armstrong, a 2005 Utica University graduate, founded the plus-size dance company Pretty Big Movement to challenge industry stereotypes. Armstrong's company gained national attention after ...

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Charlotte’s own Charity Holloway dances her way through Prime Video’s “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls,” which first aired on March 25. The local dance instructor and marketing account executive ...

Akira Armstrong didn’t set out to change the world. The 2005 Utica University graduate just wanted to dance. No one disputed her talent, honed through years of dance classes in the Bronx where she ...