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Category Archives: Self-Image

  • 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 [...]

    Fat people in love: Not as rare as unicorns

    September 28, 2009
  • There’s a really wonderful article in the NYT magazine this week about queer teenagers and how cultural changes have made it safer (in many [...]

    High five a gay kid today

    September 24, 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
  • 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
  • I’ve got a problem. And since I suspect I’m not the only one, I want to start a dialogue about this psychological artifact of Fat [...]

    Guest Blogger M. LeBlanc: The Fantasy of Staying Exactly As I Am (or, This Far and No Further, This Fat and No Fatter)

    July 30, 2009
  • I spent this weekend in rural Oregon, attending my dear friend M’s wedding. Though the weather was unusually hot for the Pacific Northwest, [...]

    Beauty

    July 28, 2009
  • Shapelings over 40: My fellow VC alum Kristyn Kusek Lewis just posted the following Facebook update: For an upcoming magazine story that [...]

    Ex-dieters over 40: Call for stories

    July 20, 2009
  • By Mean Asian Girl I’m a friend, neighbor and grad-school classmate of Kate’s, but while I’m a faithful reader, I’m not much of a [...]

    Guest Post: The Fantasy of Being White

    July 8, 2009
  • Whatever your thoughts on Michael Jackson, his fame, his music, and his troubled life, I think we can all agree that the songs from Thriller were [...]

    They’ll kick you, then they beat you / Then they’ll tell you it’s fair

    June 26, 2009
  • Via Jezebel and The F-Word, a nauseating ad campaign from Bacardi (warning: link plays music and also destroys your soul) suggesting we all make [...]

    I would need a lot more than a Bacardi Breezer to be able to stomach this

    June 20, 2009

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