About Us
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Kate Harding is a Chicago-based writer, editor, crazy dog person, humorless feminist, aspiring yoga teacher, 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.
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 over a decade. 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 made the new icons, so feel free to get her freelance graphics work for lots of pay.
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.
