Bun in the oven
Last night we stayed up late baking bread and worrying over whether it had risen enough. This year, the loaves will be a little denser than last year’s, but we made them on our own and that makes them taste even better.
I’m thankful for my partner, my friends, feminism, and learning how to look […]
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Sheepish Wednesday
After spending the morning grading extra credit responses, I rewarded myself by an hour or so of mindless surfing and livejournalling. The hot new thing - at least for my friends - seems to be Twitter. I’m still not sure I’m entirely clear on the purpose, other than that, used in conjunction with Google Talk, […]
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Seinfield, racism and holiday shopping
I’m a little late to the news-wagon, but I just found out in class tonight about the whole Michael-Richards-asshole-racist thing (see more at TMZ). It was interesting, then, to come home and find a post over at punkassblog about how Jerry Seinfield went on David Letterman and had Richards come on and give a little […]
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Feminist Anatomy Lessons
Tonight in my women’s studies class, one of the discussion facilitators asked us to draw (to scale) portraits of our clitorises (clitorii?). In light of a bizarrely unsettling class, I don’t have much interesting to say, except that I’m looking forward to the upcoming Thanksgiving dinner with all the gusto of someone who has been […]
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Skinny: fat-positive?
So the big buzz on Fatshionista, which has also made the round at the BFB forums, is the video “Skinny” by Lo-Rider. The video’s not 100% work safe, so it’s under a cut at the end of the post.
I agree that it’s nice to see something different in the way of sexuality - the […]
Stomach-stapling for kids
Just found this gem of an article in the Guardian about how the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE, of all things) is going to
recommend that severely overweight teenagers for whom other treatments have failed should be offered surgery, including ’stomach stapling’, as a last resort to prevent them from developing diabetes, cancer […]
Fat Studies: Why now?
I was emailed some questions recently about the emergence of fat studies, and I felt a little ridiculous waxing as long as I was getting over email, so I cut it down a lot and decided I’d save some of my thoughts for here, so I could really look at the question.
The gist of the […]
Butterflies
Literally, butterflies. They dive-bombed me all the way from the lecture I just gave to the grad student office. I’ve never had to actually duck to avoid being hit by a monarch, but apparently they’re on a suicide mission today.
Not so much figuratively - I thought I’d be insanely nervous for the 8 am guest […]
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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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