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Monthly Archives: September 2009

  • 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 [...]

    The Vision Chart Effect

    September 30, 2009
  • Yesterday, I wrote the most surprisingly and immediately successful blog post of my life over at Broadsheet, “Reminder: Roman Polanski [...]

    On Polanski

    September 30, 2009
  • I’m currently reading Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog),” the bloggiest book of the [...]

    Quote of the day: On fullness

    September 29, 2009
  • 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 [...]

    Fat people in love: Not as rare as unicorns

    September 28, 2009
  • 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 [...]

    Once More With Feeling: We Already Know We’re Fat

    September 27, 2009
  • 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 [...]

    Impossibly Beautiful: Kate Harding Edition

    September 25, 2009
  • 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 [...]

    High five a gay kid today

    September 24, 2009
  • 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 [...]

    2010 PCA/ACA Conference/Fat Studies: Call for Papers

    September 24, 2009
  • 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 [...]

    Appeal: Examples of progressive religious people behaving badly (or goodly)

    September 23, 2009
  • 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 [...]

    Quote of the day: Normal

    September 23, 2009

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