I was delighted when LilahCello offered to write up her experiences with facial hair as a guest post. I know this is a topic that hits close to home for many Shapelings; we’ve talked about the politics of head hair here before, but facial hair is a subject that occasionally arises in comments and always [...]
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Yes, folks, it’s even more on hair! Shapeling Heather Bailey recently sent us the story of her latest haircut, and it was too good not to post. –Kate
My hairstylist for the last three years has been a guy who’s a bit of a wunderkind stylist in this town, awesome with the shears. The problem [...]
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Remember how back in January, I said I was going to try a bunch of exercise classes and report back here? And how, after five months, I’ve only written up belly dancing and Pilates? (Still haven’t gotten around to writing up water aerobics, but who better than an otter to tell you about that?) [...]
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You are all probably familiar with Marina Wolf Ahmad, founder of Big Moves, who comments here as bigmovesbabe. Marina knows all about getting fatties to embrace, show off, and work with their bodies, and to that end, she sent us this delightful parody of women’s magazine “get a bikini body” articles. It’s a [...]
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Meowser with bald spot exposed
Meowser with hairpiece
Flashback, Pomona, California, 1989: My officemate R. and I went out for some drinks, and it got late and she invited me to come stay overnight on her couch rather than drive back to Glendale. R. is an African-American woman with a processed hairdo. At least [...]
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Friend of Shapely Prose Sheila Addison is soon going to be teaching an awesome-sounding course on size acceptance for future marriage and family therapists, and she needs ideas for the course reader she’s compiling. Help her out, shapelings! -Kate
by Dr. Sheila Addison
Friends in the Fatosphere:
Recently, The Rotund asked What Do We Do? when [...]
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Some people might be surprised to know how many of our readers are not fat, and yet benefit from and espouse the principles of fat acceptance. There are valuable lessons about body acceptance that can come from being thin — and even from getting thinner. Shapeling Dani recently endured a medical mystery that [...]
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Over at Rachel’s place, another commenter asked me if I’d ever considered giving space to someone who’d had a negative experience with WLS, as a counterpoint to Heidi’s controversial guest post. It was a timely question, because I’d just read Mariellen/Vesta44’s account of her failed Vertical Banded Gastroplasty (VBG) on her blog, Big [...]
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Our beloved guest blogger Heidi is having her surgery today. Deniselle at Fatly Yours has pretty much summed up my thoughts, so I’ll point you over there instead of rambling about it.
Whatever your feelings about WLS or Heidi’s decision, please join me in wishing her all the best and sending good thoughts her way today.
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Several of you have noticed that The Original Marshmallow of Steel, Sarah Watson, has taken down her blog. The good news is, it’s temporary (though we don’t yet know when she’ll be back). The bad news is, she did indeed do it because people are fucking assholes, and she couldn’t take it anymore.
I asked Sarah [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
