You’ve still got one day to register for the BFB Think Tank this Saturday at the Harold Washington Library. Come meet me, Paul, Rachel, Colleen and other Fatospherians (Sweet Machine, are you coming?) to talk about where all this shit is going.
You’ve still got one day to register for the BFB Think Tank this Saturday at the Harold Washington Library. Come meet me, Paul, Rachel, Colleen and other Fatospherians (Sweet Machine, are you coming?) to talk about where all this shit is going.
ooh this sounds so cool! Too bad I didn’t know about it sooner and could arrange transportation :( Godspeed with the brainstorming-ness!
Zomg, I would come but (as usual) I have no free time at all this weekend. Like, even less than usual because I have to do a presentation on a book I haven’t read. But you’ll have to fill me in!
If I got the PDF agenda, that means I’m registered, right?
Oooo, you’re going too Ottermatic? This is MUCH better than attending my 10 year high school reunion also held this month!
Oh wait, I just read the How to Sign Up section on the Think Tank page and I remember doing that. Nevermind…
Yeah, I thought I would. I’m one of those social justice activist types so this is right up my alley, plus I really want to meet you people. I’ll be the awed woman in the corner too starstruck to do anything besides gush, “Oh my God I love your blog!” over and over again.
Woo hoo! Can’t wait to meet you, OTM.
If I got the PDF agenda, that means I’m registered, right?
That is correct!
Oh, I so wish I could go. Maybe next time you can do a video conference?
I wish I could go!!! I’m working temp right now and money and time are extremely tight!!! Have fun!!!!
Next year, when the election is over, I’ll be there like swimwear on a bear. (Although getting time off would still be easier if it weren’t right before Thanksgiving… still, a year before the election it’s hard enough getting time off for the guaranteed holidays.) I’m way jealous of everyone who’s going and I hope it’s extremely productive.
I wish I could be there.
Will you all come up with a fat power symbol? Fat power handshake? Fat power password?
(if you do, I’ll probably learn them in about 3 years, long after they’ve stopped being cool).
If it’s a small group there in person, know your fat minions are waiting to do your bidding. (Not like sheep, but like actually people who have been thinking about this on their own, and really do agree.)
Thank you for inspiring me to blog, to speak out, to bravely just be a funny, smart, sexy fat woman out in the world!
When I was a young, less-well-rounded pre-type 2 person, I visited Chicago a few times while I was in college, and it seemed like the most fat-accepting place I had ever been. (I lived most of my life to that point in the San Fernando Valley, one of the most fat-hating places ever.) I thought, wow, I want to live in a place with all of these well-dressed fat people strutting around happily. So of course, Chicago. Where else?
I will be 2,105 miles west.
Hey Kate and everyone else,
I wish I could be there with you this weekend. I love Chicago and I would totally jump on a plane for this conference. I can’t come this time but I promise I will the next time…Chicago rocks!
I can’t wait to hear what you come up with and I am really looking forward to joining you at future events.
:( Why does stuff like this happen in my hometown 4.5 years AFTER I move????
Hmm… maybe I should send my mother as my rep? ;)
I live in New Jersey, which is a ways away from Chicago so I can’t make it. But I’d love to hear about it, so I hope you do a write up.
Love your blog. Posted on it today as part of a series on beauty.
http://theindividualvoice.blogspot.com/2007/11/fat-people-are-roundly-beautiful.html
the individual voice: Fat People Are Roundly Beautiful
Spent all my travel money on getting married, unfortunately – I should have saved some out for this. I’ll see everyone next year, I hope!
That sounds awesome! I live in a south suburb of Chicago, but I have a baby shower to go to on Saturday.
This is the silver lining to the crappy gray cloud of my week. Woo hoo!