About a Blog

Posted on March 30, 2007 by kateharding

I always presumed that I would be a writer, without actually doing any writing. I think I thought I was going to get a phone call from somebody one day saying they had a vacancy for a novelist. When I realised that this wasn’t going to happen I thought it was about time to do [...]

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This One’s for The Tall Girls

Posted on March 24, 2007 by kateharding

We all know I’m no sports fan, but I might have to start making an exception for college women’s basketball. I’ve had a girlcrush on Courtney Paris since reading about her in the Times last month, and now I have a crushcrush on LZ Ganderson for writing this article. (I also love whoever captioned the [...]

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Fat Week Comes to a Close

Posted on March 5, 2007 by kateharding

Although there will certainly be loads more on the subject in the future, here’s the last official Fat Week post. As promised, a list of a dozen key experiences in my journey toward fat positivity (not including yoga, which was definitely one of the most important but has already been discussed):

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A Few Points of Clarification

Posted on March 3, 2007 by kateharding

Via excerpts from another e-mail to a friend:
True story: after I’d regained all the weight I lost (65 lbs.) on my first psycho diet (Jenny Craig), plus 10 new lbs., and read No Fat Chicks, and started to become aware of the fat acceptance movement, and started to really believe that fat-hatred is UNBELIEVABLY fucked [...]

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Fat Week Hobbles On

Posted on March 2, 2007 by kateharding

I still feel too much like ass to write anything new, so if you’re looking for something to read, try Sandy Szwarc’s fantastic Junk Food Science.

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