Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose

Haven’t seen one yet, but the entomophobics are about to get miz.  And it’s about to get loud.

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So, my first day of conference blogging went well, except for the part where I kinda took the “live” out of “liveblogging.” I wrote up a post this afternoon, e-mailed it to Jessica, and then had to e-mail again and say, “Wait, don’t post that!”
See, I sorta tuned out first thing in the morning when [...]

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Hey, y’all. I’m not sure how much I’ll be posting here in the next few days, because I’m going to be at the Causes in Common Meeting tomorrow and the SisterSong conference Thursday through Sunday, live blogging them for Feministing. This all came about rather suddenly, as Feministing’s Jen, who was supposed to be blogging [...]

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Jennie Bristow has a fantastic article at Spiked, examining the UK Department of Health’s oxymoronical position on alcohol consumption by pregnant women — if you drink on purpose, you’re an evil person who’s harming your baby, but if you got smashed every night before you realized you were preggers, relax, the kid will be fine [...]

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I’m in love with Minnie Crumwell. She’s an 11-year-old girl who, told she was going to be cut from her soccer team upon turning 12 — because the club becomes all boys after that — went apeshit.
And now the ban on girls is going to be lifted. Uh, at least a little. They haven’t [...]

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The other day, I had two thoughts in a row. (I know, can you believe it?)
1. Oh my god, today was the best day ever! It was warm and breezy, and I got a green tea lemonade and went down to the beach with a book and saw a tiny wiener dog puppy! COULD [...]

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Sandy Szwarc has another absolutely terrific post today, this one reality checking the marketing campaign for Alli.
My favorite part is this:
Under the Alli plan, a severely restrictive low-fat diet is mandatory and it has ways of making you comply. Their diet book has an extra value-added bit of advice: If you eat more than [...]

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Because I am shamelessly obsessed with my own Technorati ranking, I can completely relate to Paula’s grumpiness.
You should all go read her blog about poetry and theremins and zen hot dog parties. And then you should link to it. And then you should buy her awesome book.

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So, if you missed it, Mary Cheney gave birth to a boy, Samuel David. Congrats to her and her partner, Heather Poe. Hell, congrats even to Grandpa Satan, who almost looks human in that AP photo with the sprog. A new baby is a yay.
Now how about giving his other mother some fucking legal rights? [...]

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So, several people have e-mailed me links to stories about how prominent collarbones are the new symbol of self-disciplined thinness, since the trends are shifting toward oversized clothes that conceal how scrawny the wearer is or is not. (To an extent. I can tell you right now, I won’t be wearing any trapeze dresses, because [...]

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