Have at it, Shapelings. I’m using all my words for dissertating today and my co-bloggers are using theirs for their paid jobs. Fluffcation rules do not apply on this thread: feel free to talk about what you want and get as controversial as you feel, so long as you abide by the Comments Policy. Speaking … Continue reading »
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Getting to 101
A Shapeling (who wishes to remain anonymous for the purpose of this thread) has some questions she’s been mulling after some of our recent discussions about gender and feminism. What do you do when the men in your life are only partway to feminism — when they agree that, say, women should have equal pay … Continue reading »
Hey, remember this?
Are you a newish reader who’s not a douchehound? Do you wish you could talk to other Shapelings without our annoying requests that you “stay on topic” and “quit threadjacking” already? Do you want to organize a baby donut party in your town? Do you have a boring office job and need even more ways … Continue reading »
Help Us Plan a Book Tour!
OK, Shapelings, lots of you have been asking where we might be going on a book tour, and the answer is, we have no idea yet. Well, we have one idea. There will definitely be an event at Re/Dress in Brooklyn on June 5. Other than that, nothing’s firm yet. So we need a little … 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 »
Best of
Check out what’s going on in the Shapeling community. We are pushing 700 members! If I could make virtual confetti and balloons drop on Shapeling #700, I totally would. Tiffany shares a grossly food-shaming holiday poem/email forward, and fuzzyoctopus starts a chain of brilliant body-positive response poems. Genevieve asks, What is/was your FoBT? leafspeech looks … Continue reading »
Weekly-ish best of
We are totally thrilled that over 300 of you have joined the freshly minted Shapely Prose community at Ning. If you haven’t joined yet, go check it out! Since it’s so active, I thought I would start a quasi-regular post highlighting some particularly active or fun discussions on the forums. miakodajs relates the all too … Continue reading »
Announcing the Shapely Prose community site, or, I hope you have some time to kill
Attention Shapelings! Remember how, a while back, we asked you what you wanted to see next out of Shapely Prose, and then you told us all kinds of things, and then we got stressed out and stopped posting much? Good times. Well, one of the most frequently expressed wishes was to have a place where … Continue reading »
Fat scrubs, anyone?
Shapeling RedSonja is hoping some of you have some expertise in finding some shapely scrubs. I work in a veterinary hospital. Uniform is scrubs. Unisex scrubs. Unisex scrub pants that have a high waist in the front, and low in the back. This is just wonderful when I have to bend over to pick up … Continue reading »
Stop Her Before She Diets Again!
Shapelings, A Sarah needs your help. She just left the comment below in another thread, and I thought it deserved its own post. I’ve said many times that the journey to body acceptance is not short, straightforward, or without switchbacks. Intellectually grasping the wisdom of giving up dieting often comes loooong before you’re emotionally ready … Continue reading »
