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		<title>Relax, He Wants You to Maw Down and Wear Cheap Chonies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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 According to Glamour, there are seven reasons why your &#8220;man&#8221; adores you as is. I have a bit of a problem with the concept of &#8220;as is&#8221;. I associate the concept with final sale sweaters with ink stains not coverable by a cabbage rose brooch, not loving relationships. But then again, I&#8217;m still doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3931&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Embiggening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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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 made me think about myself, my body, and my visibility as a woman. I shrank, quickly and unintentionally, and the experience reaffirmed my commitment to FA, because people praised me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3865&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No more &#8220;fat talk&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/10/19/no-more-fat-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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We&#8217;ve been deep into Advanced Feminism and Fat Acceptance the last few weeks, but sometimes it&#8217;s good to get a reminder of the basics and why we have to start there. The most important step of FA &#8212; and the one that often hardest to do &#8212; is to stop talking shit about yourself. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3828&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fat people in love: Not as rare as unicorns</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/09/28/fat-people-in-love-not-as-rare-as-unicorns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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Hey, remember all the troglodytes over the course of your life who implied, concern trolled, or flat-out  decreed that you would never find love if you&#8217;re fat? Fatshionista&#8217;s Lesley has put together the ultimate comeback: The Museum of Fat Love, &#8220;an incomplete collection of evidence proving the existence of those not-so-rare creatures: fat people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3690&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High five a gay kid today</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s a really wonderful article in the NYT magazine this week about queer teenagers and how cultural changes have made it safer (in many but not all areas of the US) to come out in middle school. The gist of the article is that the increased visibility of queer people in the culture at large [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3666&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming visible</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/09/01/becoming-visible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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Lesley at Fatshionista is posting scanned pages from her epic archive of MODE magazine, a fat fashion magazine from the late &#8217;90s. MODE&#8217;s run corresponds almost precisely with my time in college, and my dorm had a subscription for a while (thanks to FJ, I believe). I remember almost nothing about the written content of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3539&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be this boring, ever</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/08/11/dont-be-this-boring-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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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 a class she says addressed the issue.
Dear inhabitants of planet Earth: If you need a special class to make you like the fit of your jeans, YOU ARE WEARING THE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3461&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogger M. LeBlanc: The Fantasy of Staying Exactly As I Am (or, This Far and No Further, This Fat and No Fatter)</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/07/30/guest-blogger-m-leblanc-the-fantasy-of-staying-exactly-as-i-am-or-this-far-and-no-further-this-fat-and-no-fatter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a problem. And since I suspect I&#8217;m not the only one, I want to start a dialogue about this psychological artifact of Fat Hate and try to figure out what the hell we can do about it.
You see, I&#8217;m doing pretty well at accepting my body. Which is, to be sure, a fat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3425&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/07/28/beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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I spent this weekend in rural Oregon, attending my dear friend M&#8217;s wedding. Though the weather was unusually hot for the Pacific Northwest, the setting and (outdoor) ceremony worked together so beautifully that the whole weekend felt tinged with magic. It was wonderful to celebrate my friend&#8217;s happiness in such a lovely landscape, with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3417&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-dieters over 40: Call for stories</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/07/20/ex-dieters-over-40-call-for-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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Shapelings over 40: My fellow VC alum Kristyn Kusek Lewis just posted the following Facebook update:
For an upcoming magazine story that I&#8217;m writing, I&#8217;m looking for women over 40 who finally learned to love their bodies when they stopped dieting, obsessing over the scale, and/or gave up an &#8220;old way&#8221; of thinking about diet and exercise. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3370&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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