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Category Archives: Self-Image

  • Kathy Kinney (best known as Mimi on The Drew Carey Show) has co-authored a book with a publishing exec I’ve never heard of named Cindy [...]

    Queen of Your Own Life!

    April 18, 2010
  • I have no idea what Sam L Jackson is like in real life, but I sure admire the way many of his characters navigate the world. Not really feeling [...]

    Cultivate Your Inner Samuel L. Jackson

    March 10, 2010
  • You may remember friend of SP Mean Asian Girl from her previous guest post, The Fantasy of Being White. We loved that post so much that we asked [...]

    Guest Blogger Mean Asian Girl: Oh? No! Or, Why I didn’t participate in the Facebook doppelganger meme

    February 16, 2010
  • There was a time, when I was a teenager and in my early twenties, when I used to think about fashion the way The Guardian‘s Tanya Gold [...]

    Fashion without hatred

    January 29, 2010
  • Volcanista is a Friend of SP, geologist, and LOST evangelizer. So, over the holidays I took a badly needed holiday vacation, and because I like [...]

    Guest blogger Volcanista: Of boobages

    January 21, 2010
  • I originally posted this on my own blog I received an email the other day from a reader named Alice – whose daughter a chubby teen – [...]

    Ranty’s Machine

    January 13, 2010
  • Shapelings, let’s talk fatness in young adult fiction. YA fiction often positions fat as shorthand for countless negative qualities the [...]

    Fat Visibility in YA Fiction

    December 7, 2009
  • According to Glamour, there are seven reasons why your “man” adores you as is. I have a bit of a problem with the concept of [...]

    Relax, He Wants You to Maw Down and Wear Cheap Chonies

    November 18, 2009
  • My first post here was about a radical bodily change I was undergoing (drastic weight loss due to an undiagnosed medical condition) and how it [...]

    The Embiggening

    November 11, 2009
  • We’ve been deep into Advanced Feminism and Fat Acceptance the last few weeks, but sometimes it’s good to get a reminder of the basics [...]

    No more “fat talk”

    October 19, 2009

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