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Nicholas Kristof:
The racism is difficult to measure, but a careful survey completed last month by Stanford University, with The Associated Press and Yahoo, suggested that Mr. Obama’s support would be about six percentage points higher if he were white. That’s significant but surmountable.
Most of the lost votes aren’t those of dyed-in-the-wool racists. Such racists account [...]
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Shapeling Occhiblu sent a version of this as an e-mail to us yesterday, hoping we could post about it. But she’d basically said it all, so we asked her to guest post. Thanks, Occhiblu!
Note to commenters: This thread will be moderated with a heavier hand than usual. –Kate
By Occhiblu
Sandy at Junkfood Science linked yesterday to [...]
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Check out the Women of Color and Beauty Carnival on the yennenga LJ community. This looks like an awesome carnival, and I’m really excited to read all the linked posts. You’ll recognize Julia’s excellent post at Fatshionista, which we’ve been discussing around here; some of her posts on LJ are linked as well. Via Racialicious [...]
Filed under: Exercise, Fat, Feminism, Intersectionality, Media, Other Stuff We Read, Pop Culture, Self-Image, Sweet Machine | 83 Comments »
From Julia of Fatshionista (also a frequent commenter here), a wonderful post about racism and the politics of beauty.
Presenting oneself well, in the best suit, was an important aspect of being the stereotype breakers. In order to have a chance of being taken seriously, you had to look clean and put together from head to [...]
Filed under: Disability, Fat, Intersectionality, Other Stuff We Read, Sweet Machine | 98 Comments »
If you don’t read NYLON or aren’t an obsessive Gossip fan, you might (like me) have missed a recent photoshoot with fat icon Beth Ditto that used racist imagery. Threadbared has a spot-on analysis of what’s so troubling about the image, which you can see reproduced in the post:
The housekeeper is meant to be invisible, [...]
Filed under: Fashion, Fat, Intersectionality, Media, Pop Culture, Sweet Machine | 93 Comments »
You may have seen this at Fatshionista already, but just in case:
The inaugural Fat Women of Color Carnival will be held over at saskaia.livejournal.com on July 23. The theme is general and open to anything pertaining to being a fat woman of color and our experiences in our communities, experiences on how our fat and [...]
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The next time someone tells you that fatphobia differs from racism in being a “socially acceptable prejudice,” kick them over to this post. It’s a hilariously written but chilling roundup of histrionic reactions to the celebratory dap — sorry, GANG SIGN — between Michelle and Barack Obama last week, courtesy of Drive-By Assholes on [...]
Filed under: Fillyjonk, Intersectionality, Politics | 77 Comments »
Yesterday at lunch, the subject of the “obesity epidemic” panic came up briefly. I scoffed a little, and a coworker said “you know, it’s funny. On the one hand, medically, we have all these doctors talking about health. On the other hand, socially, people are telling you to love yourself. Surely [...]
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Building on Fillyjonk’s post below, I want to announce two new changes to the comments policy, probably making it the longest goddamn comments policy on the internet.
Tenth Rule: If you are tempted to begin an argument against something we’ve said here with, “God, stop being so PC!” just stop right there. We are proudly PC [...]
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There’s been a lot of response to Tara’s extraordinary post about race in fat activism on Fatshionista.com. Lord knows I am in no mood to court drama right now, but it comes looking for me anyway, so let me take this opportunity to state my position on an important post and an important issue.
One very [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
