I’ve got mail! Ginmar writes,
“I’ve never suggest that harassment=size, and I’d appreciate it if you didn’t suggest that I said that, either. Women of all sizes get harassed. Their size is irrelevant. The character of their harassers is what’s relevant. Are you honest to God saying that thin women get harassed because of their size? […]

Filed under: conflict, fat politics, feminism as politics by Amy's Brain Today

I don’t do christian holidays, and I don’t do CNN, but I was just down in the laundry room where they had the TV on, and I was introduced to the concept of peep jousting.

To have a Peep Joust, simply stick a toothpick in two Peeps, place them facing each other in a microwave, and […]

Filed under: fluff and musings by Amy's Brain Today

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, on a planet far, far too much like this one, there lived an idealistic young fat lesbian feminist with a quandary. For you see, the idealistic young fat lesbian feminist had always wanted to dedicate her life to making her planet better for women. However, […]

Filed under: conflict, feminism as politics, personal is political, resistance, satire, work by Amy's Brain Today

Lately I’ve come across several references by fat women* (or, in the case of a recent poetry slam winner, women who’re just fatter than the women they’re criticizing) to “skinny bitches.” Now perhaps I ought to consider the source here, but I feel compelled to address this. I was reminded of these resentful comments while […]

Filed under: fat politics, feminism as politics by Amy's Brain Today

Thinking more about the technophile/neo-luddite dichotomy I wrote about yesterday made me realize I have something to say about a very controversial topic–cell phones. Now this is a hard one, because unlike the McMansion, I know and love many people who own and use cell phones. I understand the complexity of the cell phone-related decision-making […]

Filed under: media/culture criticism, rants, white privilege by Amy's Brain Today

I was rattling around the blogosphere late the other night and, in a post by Doppelganger, I came across this:
“The Spacebox is a self-contained studio residence made of high-quality composites. It is equipped with all the necessary facilities and complies with the requirements of the stringent Building Act of The Netherlands. The residential units are […]

Filed under: consumerism, environment, land dyke odyssey by Amy's Brain Today

So I bought this new yarn on ebay from a very nice woman named Sandy. Sandy waxed rhapsodic in the item description about all the fun she had creating this fabulous yarn, and it looked pretty in the photo, so I thought, what the hey? Sandy called her creation “Crazy Afternoons”–and now I […]

Filed under: cats, knitting by Amy's Brain Today