Archive For May, 2009
In comments to Etana’s post of last week, Dreamy, many-worded Commenter Extraordinaire, made the following statement, which I thought beautifully concise and accessible enough that it was worth my extrapolating upon into some meandering bloggery musings of my own: Inclusivity is valuable not because it makes a pretty picture or checks a box, but because […]
Click through to the Flickr version for outfit info. I’ve been having a mild infatuation with AJ Wright lately. I like the explodey chaos, I like the bargain-basement prices, I like that they don’t treat fat folks like lepers and have plus sizes in abundance, I like digging through piles of crap to find The […]
I walked into the small cosmetics shop squinting at the fluorescent lighting and hoping for the best. I had the most fabulous fatshionista I could find and was clinging to her arm for dear life. Anything would be better than my current boi look swept up into my roots as shade from the blind femme […]
I have to take a moment to ackowledge and recommend Substantia Jones’ long-running Adipositivity Project, an ever-growing collection of photographs of fat figures in various states of undress. This series has always been fascinating and illuminating, insofar as providing images of fat people in circumstances in which they’re rarely seen in mainstream culture. However – […]
There’s a show that’s long-since expired (I do believe) that had a great theme song, You’re Not The Boss of Me. The jingle is playing in my brain as I type this. As I sipped my afternoon soda and prepared for a weekend of fun and dirt, I read the most recent Shapely Prose post. […]
Click through to the Flickr version for outfit info. Pretty frequently I get compliments from much-slimmer people, usually women, on my clothes, or my style in general. It’s a pretty swell thing to hear, and incredibly satisfying, considering the time and effort I put into my wardrobe. But there’s also an aspect of it that’s… […]
I was away for the weekend. This was in my inbox when I got back. Last week, we had a bit of an intervention for Torrid over on the Fatshionista LiveJournal community. Though people’s expectations and demands vary in some respects, there were a few common points, the primary ones being sizing inconsistencies, Torrid’s pricing […]
Click through to the Flickr version for outfit info. Back in February, when visiting South Florida, the land that spawned me, I picked up a few maxi dresses at Ross. I have resisted the maxi dress until now, for a couple of reasons. 1. Maxi dresses kind of make me feel like I’m wearing a […]
I am not especially talented at talking about The Health Issue, that is, the whole “but what if being fat is unhealthy?” question. There are a few reasons for this. For one, statistics bore me, and I lack the patience and interest to dutifully seek out medical studies to use to disprove other medical studies. […]
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