• The good news: Last night’s reading went incredibly well. Jaclyn Friedman and Toni Amato were fucking awesome (Jessica Valenti had strep [...]

  Owie.

  January 30, 2009
• 1. Lesley at Fatshionista has written an absolutely spectacular post on photographs and their role in how you relate to your body. No blurb I [...]

  Link roundup: Picturing bodies

  January 30, 2009
• All right, Shapelings, this is your own damn fault. For some reason we have not been able to stop talking about creepy-ass animals in comments [...]

  Friday fluff: Read at your own risk!

  January 30, 2009
• FJ says: I felt like I’d been seeing a lot of “but it’s hard to be thin, too!” comments recently, not really here but [...]

  Guest blogger volcanista: On thin privilege

  January 29, 2009

• Boston-area Shapelings, I’m going to be doing a reading to promote Yes Means Yes in Cambridge tomorrow night. That is, if I can actually [...]

  Yes Means Yes Reading in Cambridge, MA Tomorrow

  January 28, 2009
• I recently started flossing regularly, partly because it’s good for my teeth but also partly because it’s potentially good for my [...]

  Why I floss but don’t diet

  January 27, 2009
• “Research has shown that dieting and exercising more don’t make you less fat. But that’s no excuse not to diet and exercise [...]

  Sample article on fat to be used for the rest of time

  January 27, 2009
• Several of you have alerted us to news about a study of an “obesity virus” that, when caught, appears to increase the number of fat [...]

  Fat is contagious again

  January 26, 2009

• Regular readers: my essay from Feed Me! Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight and Body Image, edited by Harriet Brown, is on the front page [...]

  Welcome, Salon readers!

  January 24, 2009
• So when you guys get Kate’s book (you preordered it, right?), you will see in it a brief anecdote about a friend who married someone who [...]

  Hurley is kind of hot

  January 23, 2009