Keep Santa Fat.com. For every signature on their petition, they’ll donate a pound of food to America’s Second Harvest.
That’s my kind of activism.
Via Sandy.

Filed under: activism/organizing, fat politics by Amy's Brain Today

Apparently Dan Savage, the odious sex pox columnist, has reiterated his oh-so-radical stance that fat people are ugly and eat too much, and therefore deserve whatever mistreatment we get–unlike gay people, of which he coincidentally is one, who are just “born that way,” poor them, and don’t deserve to be persecuted.
As you all know, I’m […]

Filed under: fat politics, feminist sexuality, hate, lesbian feminism by Amy's Brain Today

From Zuzu at Kindly Póg Mo Thóin, we have “Rejecting the frames”:

…why should healthy lifestyle be the ticket to being treated as a human being? I shouldn’t have to do a damn thing to claim my right to being treated equally other than exist. Who the fuck has the right to deny me that just […]

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

Everything about misogyny, fat-hating, postcolonialism and consumerism, that is.

In a delightful feature under the heading “body news,” we’re informed about the “Spice Girls’ Body War!” wherein they are “battling to see who will look the best” on their upcoming tour. I’m not under any kind of delusion that the Spice Girls are feminists, but […]

Filed under: consumerism, fat politics, media/culture criticism, racism by Amy's Brain Today

Via Sandy at Junkfood Science:

It is now a proven fact that eating food—any kind of food—will kill you. No one who has eaten food in the past is alive today and everyone currently eating food will die. Therefore, those noble people who seek to save us from eating every kind of food that the earth […]

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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 […]

Filed under: fat politics, media/culture criticism, medicine/science criticism, reviews by Amy's Brain Today

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 […]

Filed under: fat politics by Amy's Brain Today

Sandy has a story about the humiliation and abuse undergone by fat kids in “residential treatment programs.”

Filed under: corporate dementors, fat politics by Amy's Brain Today

You’ll notice I changed my sidebar photo. This is in response to the post that my stats link to, sweetmachine’s Pants, Meet Fire Extinguisher. Though I don’t know exactly what I weigh as I don’t weigh myself, I haven’t purposely lied about my weight for years. You can find several past posts […]

Filed under: fat politics by Amy's Brain Today

I have had to sit myself down and take a good hard look at the reality: my brain is broken.
I don’t know if it has always been broken. I suspect so. I suspect that my father’s line carries some kind of hereditary brain-brokenness; of course, it’s hard to know which comes first, […]

Filed under: ability, activism/organizing, albuquerque, blogging, class, fat politics, feminism as politics, links, personal is political, white privilege by Amy's Brain Today