Dear Aunt Fattie, Last summer one of my best friends (we’ll call her K) spent the day at the beach with another group of girls we hang out with. I was unable to go, but would normally have been there. That day they had a great time hanging out, drinking Bloody Marys. The three of … Continue reading »
Posted in June 2008 …
Friday fluff: Summertime
It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and the living, as they say, is easy. Or at least, it’s been easy for me the last week because I’ve been on a little staycation since my classes/orals/grading frenzy ended; I have stuff to work on over the summer, but suddenly I live in a world of … Continue reading »
Wedding attire without the commitment
It’s June, which means it’s wedding season, which means that every form of media apparently needs to start featuring All Weddings All The Time. I feel like it’s a little better this year, perhaps because there have been actually newsworthy marriage-related developments. Still, ’tis the season for meaningless wedding-based fluff pieces, and who am I … Continue reading »
What’s your fat experience?
Founder Stacy Bias emailed us yesterday to alert us to the launch of her new website, The Fat Experience Project, which The Rotund has already rhapsodically reviewed. From Stacy’s email: The goal of the Fat Experience Project is to map the global experience of fat in a way that is human, has a face, a … Continue reading »
OT: Shapeling Em, Please Contact Me!
Hey, there might be more than one Em out there now, but I’m looking for the one who left this comment several months ago: Back when I first saw pictures of you, in your personal history entry, I felt so cheated and disappointed. “So that’s her? The poster child of fat bloggers? Just another thin … Continue reading »
A word on satire
Dear Barbara Ehrenreich, This is satire. This is just lazy. See, one of them exposes and mocks society by catching the reader up in appealing rhetoric and then twisting the tourniquet tighter and tighter until she can’t breathe. The other one consists mainly of appropriation and regurgitation of other people’s tired cracks about fat and … Continue reading »
Review: More Big Girl Knits
We haven’t talked a whole lot about crafting and fat in the past, but I know we have some crafty Shapelings out there! (Has anyone knit or crocheted an Adipose cell yet?) I’m an obsessive knitter myself (though the level of obsession ratchets up and down depending on my school schedule), and I’ve been delighted … Continue reading »
DC/Balto Shapelings: Call me!
Hey, Shapelings in DC, Baltimore, and environs, please contact me! Shapeling Kate217 is setting up a meetup next month, and I don’t want to put the details right on the site, so I need the contact info of anyone who’s interested. (Then I will probably pass you off to Kate217, who is about 29305802 times … Continue reading »
Ask Aunt Fattie: How do I stop feeling negative about my girlfriend’s fat?
Hi Aunt Fattie – So I’m a late-twenty-something lady who is dating another twenty-something lady. I am a curvy sort of lady who spent years upon years hating myself and censoring myself and focusing on other people’s (perceived) dislike of my body, etc., went through much disordered eating, and am just finally starting to come … Continue reading »
If No One Mentions It, It Doesn’t Exist!
The Fat Rant 3 thread is dying down now, so I want to highlight a comment Deborah Lipp just made toward the end of it, and my response. Deborah: It’s an awesome video, but I don’t love what she said to the kids. She said (close paraphrase) “I’m fat. People come in all different sizes.” … Continue reading »
