So here’s a blurb on a new study, courtesy of Washington Post’s “The Checkup.” It opens: Women, want to enjoy good health in your golden years? Ooh! I know this one! [thinks] YES. Lose weight. Now. Oh. Wow, that’s… um, directive. Not one to slice the bologna too thin, eh, WaPo? Attention ALL WOMEN! What? … Continue reading »
Posted in September 2009 …
On Polanski
Yesterday, I wrote the most surprisingly and immediately successful blog post of my life over at Broadsheet, “Reminder: Roman Polanski Raped a Child.” I first realized I’d hit a nerve when I linked to it on Twitter, and the retweets started pouring in, continuously and (as of this writing) endlessly. (There have been hundreds involving … Continue reading »
Quote of the day: On fullness
I’m currently reading Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog),” the bloggiest book of the 19th century. Since it concerns the adventures of three 19th-century bachelors and a dog rowing a small skiff down the Thames and camping along the way, there is unsurprisingly a lot of emphasis … Continue reading »
Fat people in love: Not as rare as unicorns
Hey, remember all the troglodytes over the course of your life who implied, concern trolled, or flat-out decreed that you would never find love if you’re fat? Fatshionista’s Lesley has put together the ultimate comeback: The Museum of Fat Love, “an incomplete collection of evidence proving the existence of those not-so-rare creatures: fat people in … Continue reading »
Once More With Feeling: We Already Know We’re Fat
Zuzu sent me a link to the latest Schott’s Vocab post at the NYT, this one examining the phrase “fat gap.” Ben Schott points out that the phrase “has also been used to describe disproportionately high obesity rates among the poor, and the differing levels of obesity in different ethnic groups in Washington D.C.,” but here, he’s … Continue reading »
Impossibly Beautiful: Kate Harding Edition
I wrote about what it takes to make me magazine-ready over at my author site. (Note, first-time comments there, like here, are moderated, so forgive me if you comment there and do see it right away.) Also, open thread.
High five a gay kid today
There’s a really wonderful article in the NYT magazine this week about queer teenagers and how cultural changes have made it safer (in many but not all areas of the US) to come out in middle school. The gist of the article is that the increased visibility of queer people in the culture at large … Continue reading »
2010 PCA/ACA Conference/Fat Studies: Call for Papers
From Julia McCrossin, a call for papers. You can also feel free to use this as an open thread. 2010 PCA/ACA Conference Fat Studies Area Call for Papers Fat Studies is becoming an interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary field of study that confronts and critiques cultural constraints against notions of “fatness” and “the fat body”; explores fat bodies … Continue reading »
Appeal: Examples of progressive religious people behaving badly (or goodly)
Shapelings, in a few weeks I’ll be giving a public lecture at my new academic institution. In the lecture I plan on doing a theologically-inflected Fat Acceptance 101. Or perhaps it will be a Theology of Embodiment 101 with a big helping of Fat Acceptance. I don’t know, because I haven’t written it yet. But … Continue reading »
Quote of the day: Normal
I take the war on terror personally because the war on terror is really a war on difference, because my body strikes terror in the hearts of other Americans. My body and the bodies of the people I love are the most intimate sites of American imperialism. Because our sex anatomy isn’t normal, they operate … Continue reading »
