• No, not that fat Barbie, sadly. According to WWD, shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who recently designed some high fashion Barbies, had to [...]

  Quick hit: Fat Barbie

  October 13, 2009
• Behold! The Queen of the Fat-o-sphere and the, uh, Fairy Princess of Plus-Size Modeling have combined powers! Kate interviews the lovely Crystal [...]

  “The most beautiful girl in the world would be completely picked apart”

  September 15, 2009
• Lesley at Fatshionista is posting scanned pages from her epic archive of MODE magazine, a fat fashion magazine from the late ’90s. [...]

  Becoming visible

  September 1, 2009
• I wrote about anonymous cyberbullying for The Guardian’s Comment Is Free: Yet all over the web, people operating under the illusion that [...]

  Elsewhere on the internet

  August 20, 2009

• Actual sentence appearing on cnn.com today as a caption to a photo: Jessica Ordona (in white) disliked the fit of her jeans, so she signed up for [...]

  Don’t be this boring, ever

  August 11, 2009
• Happy 6th birthday to the Pretty Pear! In celebration, Colleen’s giving shit away all week, revealing a new giveaway each day. (She’s [...]

  Quick Hit: Pretty Pear Giveaways

  July 15, 2009
• 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 [...]

  Hidden Plus Sizes on Etsy

  July 8, 2009
• -Lauredhel: Fat acceptance and Oppression Olympics fail on The Gruen Transfer  An excellent elaboration of Rule 11, among other things. The [...]

  Read ‘Em

  May 14, 2009

• Faith 21, the new “plus-size” line from Forever 21, is out. The bad news: The goods pretty much range from “meh” to [...]

  Faith 21: I give it 3 months

  May 4, 2009
• 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 [...]

  Links!

  May 4, 2009