Time-Machine has started a Facebook group called I’m making fat socially acceptable and I’m not sorry.
If you do the Facebook thing, get on over there and sign up!
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Adorable Nikki Blonsky, of Hairspray and Igigi-wardrobe-I-would-kill-for fame, is going to star in a Lifetime movie called Queen Sized, about a fat teenaged girl who’s elected Homecoming Queen as a joke.
Okay, so that’s something we’ve seen umptybillion times before, but perhaps, in this more enlightened age, it’s getting a new spin? Perhaps, in this version, [...]
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THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Our own Shapeletarian (yeah still working on a nickname) apricotmuffins — a.k.a. Maria Sumpter — was inspired by Fillyjonk’s Halloween costume suggestion to create this FUCKING BRILLIANT illustration for an article on theobesityepidemicboogaboogabooga.
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It’s the night before Hallowe’en, so our weekly open mic included a zombie named Bob, a linguistics-reading T-Rex and a passable facsimile of Amy Winehouse. But nobody’s outfit was as poignant as my friend Sarah’s tee shirt:
I didn’t even see it until my boyfriend leaned over and said “I want to tell the rhino [...]
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So now is as good a time as any to tell you I’m going to be the call-in guest on this Thursday’s Daily Special over at Elastic Waist. Woo!
Talk about that or something.
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Here’s some news that I know will come as a terrible shock to longtime readers: no one knows how to make fat people permanently thin. Or even less fat.
Dieting doesn’t work in the long term and often makes you fatter. WLS can kill you, in addition to other unpleasant side effects, and as with diets, [...]
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Over at Rachel’s place, another commenter asked me if I’d ever considered giving space to someone who’d had a negative experience with WLS, as a counterpoint to Heidi’s controversial guest post. It was a timely question, because I’d just read Mariellen/Vesta44’s account of her failed Vertical Banded Gastroplasty (VBG) on her blog, Big [...]
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B - I - N - G - O
More fun with trolls: Punkass Blog has created Evo Psych Bingo! Perfect for the Oliver Currys of the world.
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Update: Kell’s blog seems to be down now, but I’m leaving this up at least until her post falls out of the Fatosphere feed.
So, Kell wrote a new post about Heidi. Since she’s moderating comments (as is her right, of course), I don’t know if mine will ever show up there. So I’m posting what [...]
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Club Plus Life, the first size acceptance nightclub in Reno — and awesomely, that’s just how they describe it — opened last week. Co-founders Anthony Piersanti and Jean Olson met at a plus-size club in California and were bummed to find that Reno didn’t have one when they moved there. So they started one. Kickass.
“It [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
