Jemima J Sucks Week
This is one of my favorite weeks ever, just because of the history. I don’t know if it’s been “observed”, so to speak, since it’s inception, but it’s a quirky, fun opportunity to protest fat-phobia even if it’s not still… celebrated (?).
Who is this Jemima J, and why does she suck? She’s actually the star […]
Fat Online: The Pretty Pear
This is just a brief post to highlight The Pretty Pear, a blog and resource site for fat fashion. Colleen posts news hot of the fat fashion press from her insider-y position working at Lane Bryant, one of the most popular fat clothing stores.
Not only that, Colleen maintains a ginormous Link Portal with links […]
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For the other Blogathon participants: The Bloggerwocky
Feeling tired? Dazed? Ill after ingesting too much caffeine? Get a quick pick-me-up by reading Jade’s The Bloggerwocky. Jade was on my team way back in 2003 when I was a Team Leader, and she won the contest for best ‘thon-related blog. Definitely worth a peak.
More fat-fun on the way!
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The Semantics of Fat
Often when you’re doing fat activism, people get offended at the use of the word “fat”. They’d prefer I use “gentler” terms, like chubby or full-figured or voluptuous or curvy or stout, ad nauseum. Fat, most people seem to think, is mean. Perhaps it’s all in how you look at it, but for myself (and […]
Fat TV: Sookie from Gilmore Girls
This is my dirtly little secret: I’m a total Gilmore Girls junkie.
It was nothing to be ashamed about in high school, when everyone else I knew was obsessed with Rory and Lorelai’s antics. But now that I’m in college and people mostly watch CSI and West Wing and other Important Television Shows (oxymoron?), I feel […]
Blogathon stuff
Break from the fat stuff.
I’m really enjoying doing Blogathon this year. Really, I am. It’s just that…
One of the things I’ve missed in doing behind-the-scenes stuff is how much time I had in past years to surf the ring, view the sites, really see what was going on. I spent some time online tonight with […]
Venus
Whoa wahoo, here’s a post a few minutes late. Damn me and my webring buggery!
Thought, continuing with the Venus of Willendorf theme, that I’d share an image I’ve had on my hard drive a while - the tubby little hottie herself, Ms. Venus. Behold her in all her nekkid glory. The breasts! The ass! The […]
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Fat Theory: Richard Klein
In Bodies out of Bounds, Richard Klein discusses fat in the beauty aesthetic in his essay “Fat Beauty.” He discusses various scholars on size and beauty, and at one point talks about Kenneth Clark, an art scholar:
Kenneth Clark likes painters who like fat girls. To be sure, he dismisses the Venus of Willendorf. She is […]
The criticisms of my students would serve as a good warning to visitors of Seeworthy: she talks too fast, she's too hard on us, she assigns too much work, and you have to be a dyke to get a good grade.
In other words, I'm a big, fat, queer, feminist meanie, and I am totally out to get you. Graaagh!
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