• Sorry about the light posting this week, folks — I’ve been working on a couple of other writing projects. But I know you all do just [...]

  Open for Discussion: The Jiggle Factor

  November 15, 2007
• Marina of the amazing body positive dance troupe Big Moves has written to tell us the 2008 Big Moves Wall Calendar has arrived! Each month of [...]

  Support Dancing Fatties

  November 14, 2007
• Greetings, Shapelings! As the resident grad student here at SP, I don’t have the time to post as often as Kate or Fillyjonk because I am [...]

  And she wrote some pretty good novels, too

  November 14, 2007
• Over at Big Fat Deal, they’re discussing a Gawker thread about “curvy” women that I really, really don’t recommend [...]

  Marilyn’s Law

  November 13, 2007

• So, at the Think Tank last weekend, we managed to set out a few short-term goals for the movement — mostly researchy stuff, and creating [...]

  Got Experience in… Pretty Much Anything? The Fat Rights Movement Needs You.

  November 13, 2007
• That would be very little. Rachel has a write-up of the BFB Think Tank this past Saturday, which was awesome, but I’ve been feeling too out [...]

  What My Brain Is Capable of Right Now

  November 12, 2007
• Hey, y’all – Some of you might remember a while back when I asked people to submit their horror stories of fat prejudice in the [...]

  New Blog; Call for Submissions

  November 12, 2007
• So for various grad schooly purposes, I’m reading Heart of Darkness for the, oh, seventh time (and teaching it for the first time). The [...]

  Friday Fluff: Books that get better and better

  November 9, 2007

• I’m not sure where I’m going with this post. I just know I’ve eaten stew twice this week (mmmm), and it’s got me thinking [...]

  On Comfort Food

  November 9, 2007
• Yesterday we discussed that very rare and generally Kolata-specific phenomenon, a sane piece of writing about fat. Gina Kolata wrote an article [...]

  Wheels keep on spinning round

  November 8, 2007