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You may already know that Etsy is a middle-class fat girl’s dream when it comes to stores like Jane BonBon, MissBrache, and SelenaEon (reviewed by stitchtowhere on Fatshionista), all of whom specialize in or at least explicitly advertise plus sizes. If you’ve got the money to buy new clothes but don’t think you have the [...]
Filed under: Fashion, Fillyjonk, Plus Size Fashion, Shopping, Sweet Machine | 86 Comments »
-Lauredhel: Fat acceptance and Oppression Olympics fail on The Gruen Transfer
An excellent elaboration of Rule 11, among other things.
The critique of the panellists completely fails to connect this one simple fact: That arguing “you wouldn’t tell racist or homophobic jokes, so why tell fat jokes?” misses the point that people do tell racist and homophobic jokes. Bram [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Exercise, Fashion, Fat, Intersectionality, Media, Politics | 161 Comments »
Faith 21, the new “plus-size” line from Forever 21, is out.
The bad news: The goods pretty much range from “meh” to “WTF?” (I realize I’m like 20 years older than the target market here, but still: Not a dress, not a dress, not a dress. I would consider buying this AS A SHIRT.)
The good/bad news: [...]
Filed under: Fashion, You've Got to Be Kidding Me | 139 Comments »
Miriam: I want you to stop stalking overweight women
First of all, this guy is like a stalker, following her around, monitoring her. He’s creepy beyond belief. Secondly, this once again, for the millionth time perpetuates the myth that everyone who is overweight is secretly and guilty sneaking ice cream sundaes. We should know by now [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Book, Disability, Fashion, Health at Every Size | 66 Comments »
The good news: I* will be appearing on CNN’s American Morning tomorrow (they tell me around 8 a.m. EST, though that’s subject to change at 8:24 EST, as long as nothing gets changed and nothing more newsworthy happens to bump us before tomorrow) to discuss the United thing.
*ETA: Because apparently SOMETHING ALWAYS HAS TO HAPPEN WITH [...]
Filed under: Fashion | 69 Comments »
Some stuff I’ve been meaning to comment on this week, and some new stuff…
1) Via reader Melissa and numerous blogs that got there first: An article on plus-size fashion from the L.A. Times. It’s 99% really good, although A) I could have done without yet another unfounded assertion that “Americans are getting larger,” and B) the [...]
Filed under: Fashion, Fat, Media | 79 Comments »
The good news: Last night’s reading went incredibly well. Jaclyn Friedman and Toni Amato were fucking awesome (Jessica Valenti had strep and couldn’t make it, unfortunately), I met loads of Boston fatties and a few Shapelings — including, finally, Miss Conduct! – and got way more positive feedback than I deserved. And we sold out [...]
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Shapeling H. forwarded me an e-mail from JMS this morning, with the following graphic:
Seriously, y’all, the fat girl store is having a TENT SALE. Once again, we find a marketing department for a plus-size store sorely in need of a common sense consultant. I could not make this shit up if I tried.
(Having said that, they do [...]
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My sister-in-law just sent me this article that she first saw in the print version of The Toronto Star. She sent it because it mentions the blog, the book, and my Dear Oprah post (woo!), but I’m actually posting it because, holy cow, it’s really good.
Well, mostly. I think the “vanity sizing” detour is crap, [...]
Filed under: Dieting/WLS, Exercise, Fashion, Fat, Food, Media | 46 Comments »
So, in keeping with what I preach, I no longer read fashion magazines and thus have no real idea what’s in style at any given moment. But I read enough Go Fug Yourself and Jezebel to know that people who do have some idea are wearing black tights with everything up to and including some [...]
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Kate will be on a panel about body image at this year's BlogHer conference on Friday, July 24, at 1:15 p.m.
Stay tuned for a college tour in the fall and maybe some stuff in between.
Notes from the Fatosphere
