Popeye approved.
When students (or faculty, or anyone) asks me to slow down my speaking, I invariably use one of two excuses: I’ve lived in New England for the past few years, or my mother is from New York so that’s where I picked it up.
Today was the start of the semester (for me) with my […]
Apple removes thin-centric ad
Hat-tip to Devin who alerted me to this blog post about Apple having removed the words “You can never be too thin” from the ad at Apple’s main site. Apparently the fat bloggers weren’t the only ones calling Apple out on their thin-centric, misogynist ad campaign; the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness was another vocal […]
Mac: Thinking different?
I seem to recall Mac’s slogan was once “think different.” Notsomuch when it comes to propping up damaging body ideals, apparently.
Yeah, that’s the first thing you see when you go to the Apple website. Because when I’m in the market for technology, I love to have the cult of thin reaffirmed on an ad for […]
Resurrecting the Big Fat Carnival
A couple days ago I got in touch with Ampersand to find out if there was any chance of the sixth (or seventh?) Big Fat Carnival taking place. For those who aren’t familiar with the carnivals, here’s how Ampersand describes them:
The Big Fat Carnival is a carnival for collecting some of the best blog posts […]
Now we’re mutilating pre-teens?
Watching Newsroom this morning, a story came on about a twelve-year-old whose mother agreed with her that WLS - the lap band - was a good idea. The child has already had liposuction and a tummy tuck (yeah, good to know it’s for health reasons). She lost “about sixty pounds, but has… regained about half […]
Fatties Brainstorming
Last Thursday, Kell Brigand over at Disturbing Brew posted “Fat Activism: A Call for Brainstorming. This is an excellent idea, and something that has been so needed in fat activism communities - something which, I’m happy to say, is already happening in various online communities, but which should definitely extend to the blogs. I think […]
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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