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Kate Harding is a Chicago-based writer, editor, crazy dog person, humorless feminist, recovering grad student, and blonde. She also a contributor to Fatshionista, Shakesville, and Salon’s Broadsheet. And yeah, she’s on MySpace (more or less), Facebook, and Twitter.
Her first book, Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, co-written with Marianne “The Rotund” Kirby, will be available from Perigee Books in spring 2009. You can pre-order it here. Whee!
If you want to know more about the genesis of this blog, go here.
Contact Kate at katesblog at gmail dot com. (Although she never, ever thought she’d become one of the people who says shit like this, she appreciates every e-mail like you wouldn’t believe but cannot respond to every one personally.)
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Fillyjonk is a former Kid With Issues turned Adult With Chip on Shoulder. Every year or so she gets sick of her hair color, and every couple of years she gets ferocious wardrobe ennui, but she’s had the same best friend for half her life. She has never been thin, or cool; one time she got popular, but at that point she was far too old to appreciate it. She is prickly as all get-out and asks that you address all complaints about that directly to your butt.
Contact Fillyjonk at babyflavored at gmail dot com, and her alter ego at auntfattie at gmail dot com.
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Sweet Machine is a twentysomething queer grad student in Chicagoland, where she studies too much and fails to dress appropriately for the weather. She has been a fat kid, a thin teen, a chubby teen, a fat adult, a thin adult, and an in-between adult. She is particularly interested in the grad school-y aspects of fat, such as its intersections with gender and disability. She takes her pseudonym from a Mark Doty poem.
Contact Sweet Machine at sweet dot machine dot sp at gmail dot com.
Fillyjonk and Sweet Machine joined the Shapely Prose family — or, rather, made it a family, instead of just an exercise in narcissism for Kate — in August 2007.
[...] and hilarious blogs and witty observation blogs and I just don’t read a lot of them. But Kate has caught my attention (not easy to do) and I’m loving [...]
[...] are three authors: kate harding, fillyjonk, and sweet machine (whom you can read on their About Us page) and their blog is about body acceptance and just general overall coolness, like their amusing [...]
[...] in Beauty, Health, Self esteem, Weight Loss, mental health at 11:53 am by Pet~ The lovely Kate Harding, of Shapely Prose, introduced me to baby-flavored doughnuts, and ever since I find doughnut [...]
[...] followed was another exercise in amazement. Kate and Fillyjonk were there and meeting them has been a long time coming. If only Sweet Machine had been able to [...]
[...] you hate everyone and everything does not a healthy habit make. Also, you should click on ova to Shapely Prose and watch this video IMMEDIATELY. Hahahahahaaaaaa! Fucking yogurt. *sigh* Filed under: [...]
[...] Posted on June 4, 2008 by nuckingfutz From the No Shit, Sherlock Files (or as fillyjonk would say, Another Load From The Duh Truck)… this piece that is telling every fat person what [...]
[...] You might giggle rading this blog, http://kateharding.net/2008/12/31/your-daily-giggle-plus-a-lesson-in-how-not-to-appeal-to-your-core-customer/, with an LGBT blogger, Sweet Machine, http://kateharding.net/about/. [...]
[...] brings me to the awesome post on Shapely Prose. Originally by Kate Harding herself, a tonne of people have posted in the comments, making it a really awesome patchwork of [...]
[...] you breathe is made of chemicals, and every living growing thing is made of chemicals. As my friend Sweet Machine said, saying you don’t like something because it has “too many chemicals” is like [...]