Weight Watchers co-opting Fat Lib rhetoric
Not that we didn’t see it coming… but has anyone else seen the new wave of diet advertisements from Weight Watchers? The ones that start by saying “Diet’s don’t work. Weight Watchers does”? I didn’t get a chance to record it (gimme a break, it’s two in the morning here), but you can get the […]
Recent Twitterings:
Sheana is going to start a fucking fat revolution in San Diego. RIGHT NOW.
For real, folks. You, me, a couple of my fellow women’s studies grad students, some brightly-colored fliers inspired by Big Fat Facts and the local Weight Watchers/Jenny Craig. Tonight or tomorrow afternoon.
Who’s with me?
(More) Latkes for the one you love
Dreama mentioned latkes, so I figured it couldn’t hurt to talk a little about the latkes we made tonight. But first, here is Albus looking disaprovingly on the latke-making shenanigans:
So, back to the latkes. As with last year, we used Dreama’s recipe for traditional latkes. Last year, I actually got a comment on the flickr […]
The victorious return of Chanukah doughnuts
I’ve been feeling pretty blue the past week - no surprise, I’m sure - so I haven’t much been in the spirit of the holiday. My blues seemed to break a little last night, at least, and today C and I decided to be a little more festive. Thus, Chanukah doughnuts 2.0 were born:
We used […]
Hate crimes at SDSU
I kept telling myself, when I was at Smith, that it wasn’t really as idyllic for queers and feminists as everyone said it was. Yes, you could walk around Smith at night - hell, around downtown Northampton at night - and feel safe. Yes, there was a huge pride event every year at school and […]
Oh, very many things.
Today I attended a protest of a racist, sexist, rape-supporting magazine that’s distributed on campus. A few weeks ago when some pro-life goons came to SDSU and were accosting women near the free speech steps, some women from my department went out and peacefully protested with signs, and what do you know? Within twenty minutes, […]
Now with 30% more soul
Sometimes it’s easy to envision the world of academia as somewhat soul-sucking. You take something you’re passionate about, spend all your time writing, revising and distilling so you can get published or get tenure or get admitted to a really awesome PhD program, and at the end of a day of writing/teaching/TAing/workshopping/meeting-ing, you just feel […]
Training the revolutionaries of the future
Colleen’s family has been visiting this past week, including her new four-week-old nephew. I’ve never spent much time with babies - or any time, really - but as they go, this one isn’t half bad.
I’ve decided to train him to be a revolutionary. He’ll be the first self-identified male feminist in the family! He’ll […]
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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