Fat and the Movement: What’s it all about?
This post was inspired by some comments I read on the “Dear Naafa” thread over at Shapely Prose. For reference, read the comments here, esp. starting with the user Kell. It’s also evolving, at least in part, from some discussions folks are having off-blog.
So I have some questions.
1. Should a fat rights movement be receptive […]
This just in: if you murder your wife and child, you get a three-hour television tribute!
Watching Inside Edition this morning (give me a break, I’m a grad student on summer vacation… at least I’m awake before noon), they shared that the wrestler Chris Benoit had murdered his wife and child, then took his own life. After Vince McMahon came out with the announcement, he condemned yet another incidence of brutal, […]
Glamazons on America’s Got Talent
Confession 1: I sometimes watch America’s Got Talent, if Deal or No Deal is on a commercial break. Actually, that should be two confessions.
Confession 3: I was aware of the existence of the Glamazons, a fat burlesque troupe out of New York, but I’d never seen them perform and had no idea how awesome they […]
NAAFA (closing remarks)
In an email discussion I’ve been having, this morning I received a link to the schedule for NAAFA’s conference this summer. I don’t expect to make many more posts on the problems with NAAFA, since I think the conference this summer is a solid testament to the failures of NAAFA. There are a few workshops […]
Rumblings in the NAAFA-verse?
Since yesterday, this site has become one of the top-ten results when you Google the term “NAAFA” - a few people, surprisingly, have actually ended up here via that search. To those who are wondering in, welcome! You were probably looking for NAAFA’s official web site, but you’re welcome to hang around here.
Back to this […]
Problems with NAAFA
I posted a somewhat different version of this in a comment over at BFB, but lest it get buried in the archives, I wanted to say it here. I know it’s unpopular, and perhaps I should be thankful that at least there’s an organization out there doing fat activism. But I have both political and […]
Joy Nash on the news
Heads up to those who may not have seen it yet: Joy Nash (of the Fat Rant fame) did an interview for a local (not local to here, but local to somewhere, I’m pretty sure) morning news show. Check out the video here.
And yes, the site’s experiencing a few technical difficulties as I try to […]
Yup, Still Married.
At least for now, anyway. Hat-tip to Heather who broke the news (to me, at least)!
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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