New Haven Fat Liberation Front
Far from recognizing the basis of fat women’s oppression as sexist, however, and speaking to the issues involved - issues of importance to all feminists - the Women’s Movement has unconsciously reinforced and perpetuated society’s stereotypes against us. Fat feminists are in a sense stepsisters in our own movement by its adoption of the ultra-slim […]
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Tummy Love
I mentioned one of the projects we did at Smith in my past year with Size Matters (our anti-sizeism org) was an interactive art display. We invited everyone at Love Your Body Day to take polaroids of their tummies, fix them onto cardstock and decorate them as they saw fit. At the end of the […]
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Fat on Film: Real Women Have Curves
And now for a movie you can really sink your teeth into: Real Women Have Curves.
It’s not that I have anything against made-for-television movies, but Real Women just has the extra oompf. First of all, it stars a gorgeous fattie named America Ferrera, and unlike Beautiful Girl, Real Women has multiple fatties of all different […]
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Quotes: Mudhouse Sabbath
Khouria on IRC just shared this with me:
…though I believe God has something to say about human bodies, I generally tune God out and listen to Cosmopolitan instead. I’m pretty sure that God, if He called me to chat about my body, would say things like ‘I like your body. I created your body, […]
Fat Underground, part 2
Blending together Radical Therapy theories with her recently-discovered facts about the weight-loss industry and the failure of diets, Sara Fishman and Judy Freespirit, a fellow Radical Therapist, formed a NAAFA chapter there in Los Angeles with about six regular members. However, by 1973 Fishman describes how the Los Angeles chapter of NAAFA had implemented policies […]
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The Fat Underground
No story about the history of fat liberation would be complete without mentioning the Fat Underground. A radical fat activist group of the seventies, the Fat Underground is what many consider the precursor to some of the more radical facets of fat liberation work today.
And I’ll talk all about them in the next post. For […]
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Some role model…
Hello to whoever is monitoring my site, and hark! I’m re-posting the webring code. For some reason it didn’t end up in my layout… fixing now, anyhow.
And to my dear fat-and-fat-friendly readers, apologies for the lack of fat content in this entry. Erm… fat rocks!
Fat Activists: Nomy Lamm
Paige mentioned in a previous entry how much she likes Nomy Lamm, so I thought I’d highlight her in her own entry.
Yes, folks, Nomy Lamm rocks. For evidence of how bad-ass she is, review her list of accomplishments: she published the zine I’m So Fucking Beautiful from 1993-1996, runs Phat Camp, makes awesome music and, […]
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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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