(mAndrea said this comment ought to be a post so I have edited and expanded it, hoping for clarity.)
Feminism is not primarily a movement to make women happy. It is a movement to free us from sexist oppression. Come the revolution, some women will still be unhappy, because the things that are making them so […]
Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. Researchers S.C. Wooley and O.W. Wooley confirmed what most women know too well–that concern with weight leads to ‘a virtual collapse of self-esteem and sense of effectiveness.’ Researchers J. Polivy and C.P. Herman found that […]
It was very important for me, after my mastectomy, to develop and encourage my own internal sense of power. I needed to rally my energies in such a way as to image myself as a fighter resisting rather than as a passive victim suffering. At all times, it felt crucial to me that […]
Gardasil: Women Hurt by Medicine is a new blog set up by Gertrude Green (author of this fantastic essay) and Renate Klein, Australian radical feminist and author of a whole slew of things that you can look up here. They’re interested in publishing your experiences with the cervical cancer vaccine.
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve been ruminating about the nature, purpose and utility of science–particularly for feminists–since backalong Edith (rightly) accused some of us of “selectively using science to justify [our] bigotry.” And then I met Sandy, who has a pretty challenging perspective on science which made me think even more.
My opinion about science and its usefulness has […]
For a breath of fresh air–informed, well-researched critiques of the media’s messages about food, fat, and health (as well as studies and information you won’t see published in mainstream venues)–check out my friend Sandy’s new blog, particularly this great post.
It’s taken me a couple of weeks to get this together because I have been hoping to get a peek at the presenter’s book, The Spirit and Science of Holistic Health by Jon Robison, Ph.D. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to put my hands on a copy. Therefore I want to acknowledge up […]
“I was diagnosed with a myriad of mental health problems in 2001 and among the numerous (12!) drugs that were ultimately prescribed for me over the first six months following my diagnosis, the one that worked the best has the side effect of significant weight gain. I gained 120 pounds in about a year. […]
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