The good news: Last night’s reading went incredibly well. Jaclyn Friedman and Toni Amato were fucking awesome (Jessica Valenti had strep and couldn’t make it, unfortunately), I met loads of Boston fatties and a few Shapelings — including, finally, Miss Conduct! – and got way more positive feedback than I deserved. And we sold out … Continue reading »
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Link roundup: Picturing bodies
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 could write would do it justice, so you’ll just have to go read it yourself, if you haven’t already (I am a bit late posting this). My Jenny Craig portrait … Continue reading »
Friday fluff: Read at your own risk!
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 all week, what with the coconut crabs and the megalodons and all. Comment threads are starting to induce nightmares and fits of madness. So let’s just get it out of … Continue reading »
Guest blogger volcanista: On thin privilege
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 from Jezzies and whatnot. I’ve taken on thin privilege in comments threads before (pet peeve: yes, okay, I know clothes don’t fit you perfectly, but at least most stores have things … Continue reading »
Yes Means Yes Reading in Cambridge, MA Tomorrow
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 get to Boston today, what with the crazy snow both here and there, and the fact that American Airlines has already canceled one of the flights I was supposed to be … Continue reading »
Why I floss but don’t diet
I recently started flossing regularly, partly because it’s good for my teeth but also partly because it’s potentially good for my heart. It seems utterly absurd to think that periodontal disease really causes heart disease, and I’m inclined to think that either the studies that found the association were flawed, that there’s a serious correlation/causation … Continue reading »
Sample article on fat to be used for the rest of time
“Research has shown that dieting and exercising more don’t make you less fat. But that’s no excuse not to diet and exercise until you’re skinny, you cow.”
Fat is contagious again
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 cells in the body. (Long-time readers may remember that fat was already contagious through the power of magical thinking.) Now, I haven’t read the original study; I have no idea … Continue reading »
Welcome, Salon readers!
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 (eeee!) of Salon today. Check it out! Visitors from Salon: Welcome! Well, most of you, anyway. Please note that the comments policy here is a whoooole lot stricter than Salon’s, … Continue reading »
Hurley is kind of hot
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 she originally didn’t think was “her type” physically, because the longer she knew him the more her type turned out to be “someone just like him.” And that friend … Continue reading »
