• Questo animale e cinese, ma non parlo cinese: I’m going to Italy on Sunday! (And going up to New York tonight for Passover, so don’t [...]

  Friday Fluff: Traveling the world in a panda suit

  April 18, 2008
• Two of my more exceptionally brilliant Internets Friends have recently published must-read posts on Fatshionista.com, and even though [...]

  My friends are smart. Please read their bloggings.

  April 16, 2008
• It appears that French authorities are planning to crack down on pro-anorexia websites. From the Beeb: If approved by France’s upper house, [...]

  Anti-ana

  April 16, 2008
• She doesn’t talk about fat in this one, but she still gets in a couple awesome lines about The Gossip being “pigeonholed” as a [...]

  Quick Hit: Beth Ditto Interview

  April 16, 2008

• All right, I’m way late in getting to the Yale study on discrimination that everybody was talking about last week, but it’s still [...]

  On “Personal Responsibility” and “Healthy Lifestyles”

  April 15, 2008
• Hi, Aunt Fattie For awhile I’ve been wanting to reach out to other plus sized people in public, but I don’t know how to approach [...]

  Ask Aunt Fattie: How do I talk to fatties in public?

  April 14, 2008
• Inspired by a lively thread at Feministe on how to be a feminist boyfriend (and thinking about Dar William’s brilliant song about figuring [...]

  You can find out how much better things can get

  April 13, 2008
• Kate and I were discussing yesterday how we don’t even know where most of our readers live. Every so often a comments thread will explode [...]

  Friday fluff: Where in the world are Shapelings?

  April 11, 2008

• Get ready to spend your whole weekend on YouTube, Shapelings, because Nerve and IFC have put together a list of the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches [...]

  Friday fluff: Show us your skits

  April 11, 2008
• Sorry I haven’t written much of substance here this week, y’all. All my righteous ranting energy went into this yesterday, and quite [...]

  Linkies

  April 10, 2008