I love your drawing style; I particularly enjoyed your sketches for the dancing fat ladies, and also your fashion sketches – which by the way are SO much more useful and relevant than those weird stick thin things people draw.

I’m totally bookmarking your blog :)

Well if you ever want to do some kind of collaboration let me know :)

My website is: http://www.shmonster.com

And I don’t have much work there that’s relevant to this topic. I’ve only just now started my first project that’s really ABOUT this. Maybe I will post a rough cut of it somewhere soon…

Some artwork
a cartoon
HAES sketches
fashion sketches

and now for a little idea, in the spirit of the awesome BMI project: maybe the shapelings could create some artwork that’s about bosy positivity and just everything HAES is about? what do ya say? it could be fun! I’m already working on a project on this theme and it seems a lot of the other shapelings are also creative and artistic so…

or if nobody else here is that into creating something like this, do u guys know where i might find something along these lines and contribute there?

That’s kind of how I feel. If it has to be “anonymous” because of lack of signed releases…does anyone remember that beautiful photo (I think it was posted here) of the fat woman in the coral swimsuit and green bathing cap, sillouetted against a blue sky? I saved it to my HD, I thought it was so gorgeous. (I am thinking of doing a painting of it.)

But I’m not sure the media doesn’t have a fair amount of freedom to use whatever photos their photogs take….I never signed a release when I did news interviews and had my pic taken (I’m in Canada)…and they not infrequently picked the side view ones that showed my double chin/belly to their full advantage (no doubt to highlight that feminists are all fat women)….despite me asking them specifically NOT to use side views (back when I was more uptight about such things, of course). News photos are treated differently from model or advertising photos.

Well, he’s right to be concerned:
My sister’s father-in-law just died because he didn’t have the reserves. He’s always been skinny, having trouble keeping weight on even when he was healthy and ate like a horse. He got cancer at around age 70, couldn’t cope with a round of chemo, and died within about three days because he had nothing to call on.

My grandma just turned 85; she’s always been fat, and has outlived most of her relatives by up to 40 years. She is now losing weight, and I fear she won’t be around much longer. It’s sad.

The whole “trying to make the body fit the clothes, instead of choosing clothes to fit your body” is the bullsh*t brainwashing that the entire fashion industry is based on. And they start the marketing when you are a little, bitty tyke because they are terrified that if you start thiking critically, you will wake up to the fact that that philosophy — no matter how many people buy into it because of the elitist underpinning that you are a special person by virtue of possessing one of the special bodies that fit the clothes — is ASS. BACKWARDS.

Just as there is no crying in baseball, there is no critical thinking permitted in an adolescent society. So run along now.

/rant

“I never realized that being too skinny could be hard on the joints- my doctors are always telling me to loose weight for my joints. But she swears, when she could keep that “extra” 20 lbs on, she felt better.”

Absolutely. And don’t let anyone tell you different. 30 lbs ago, at around size 4, wearing heavy denim jeans, while helping a friend move, I sat down accidentally on a packing case.

I screamed obscenities and wept. It hurt my sacroiliac so bad (because it was STICKING OUT NOW, you understand) that I had residual pain for a week. It hurt so bad that I remember it these ten years later.

And don’t underestimate kicking yourself in the ankles because your gait has changed. Or waking up in the middle of the night because you were sleeping on your side and while attempting to change positions in your sleep, have accidentally banged your knees together. Hard.

They NEVER tell you that part. Because skinny is all, and beauty is supposed to be painful, right? Because you are a girl, so it doesn’t matter if you hurt.

They can go pound sand.