Not to put too fine a point on it–if you’re an even remotely happy, well-informed fat person, skip this book.
I’m both surprised and saddened to write that sentence, because I was very ready to welcome this book into the anti-dieting fat-acceptance canon, begun way back in the 1970s with The Dieter’s Dilemma and continued throughout […]
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Last weekend we were lucky enough to see the film When the road bends: Gypsy Caravan, which documents the travels of five Romani musical groups on tour around North America. It’s a wonderful film and I want to recommend that people see it, but I found that everything I thought of writing about […]
A little while back I was reading some interesting posts on the resistance to gay marriage over at Fannie’s Room. (This one, in particular, is really smart and funny.) As regular readers know, I’m not at all interested in matrimony of any flavor, because of my quirky radical feminist belief that marriage is […]
Harriet, source of the “Love Your Body Pledge” I quoted sometime back, has a post up about “5 Things You Should Never Say”. Number Two is my personal favorite:
2. I never eat X. Maybe you’re a vegetarian who hasn’t eaten meat in 20 years. Maybe you’re allergic to chocolate. Or maybe you’re caught up […]
I’ve been too politically discouraged lately to read much nonfiction, but last night I picked up Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, and Bio/Diversity and started glancing through it. Like all the best books, her arguments are too complex to excerpt well, but here’s part of her discussion of the meanings of “wild” […]
Peace is not:
Letting things slide for the sake of friendship.
Doing whatever is required to keep on good terms.
Criticizing someone behind her back.
Being silent at a meeting only to rant and rave afterwards.
Letting things drift if they don’t affect you personally.
Playing safe in order to avoid confrontation.
Manipulating someone to avoid open conflict.
Coercing someone to do what […]
Sandy has a story about the humiliation and abuse undergone by fat kids in “residential treatment programs.”
Stop Porn Culture is planning our second training on how to present our feminist anti-pornography slideshow.
The training will be held at the University of Texas in Austin, January 25-27, 2008. It will start at 5PM on Friday and finish up at noon on Sunday. We are asking for a $50 donation to cover our costs, […]
From SaveTheInternet.com:
Verizon got caught blocking pro-choice text messages on Wednesday. The phone company backpedaled on Thursday and lifted the ban. It was a simple glitch, a Verizon spokesman declared, and they felt really, really bad about it.
Today, Verizon is in full damage control, hoping this cloud will blow over in time for its next assault […]
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