Author Archives: Lesley
With assistance from Random.org (the internet can do ANYTHING!), the winners have been chosen. This contest actually turned out to be much bigger than I expected, and I want to offer enormous thanks to two awesome readers – Anne of Jesus Saves, I Spend and Sarah TX, who both also received emails with these promotional […]
By now, if you haven’t heard about Oprah’s hand-wringing over her spectacular-though-unintentional comeback into the squishy open arms of Fat (welcome back, baby!), well, you probably don’t read very many size acceptance blogs. But I’ll break it down for you: Oprah’s regained weight. This confounds and saddens her. (Lather, rinse, repeat.) This old fairytale reminded […]
Click through to the Flickr versions for outfit info. This may come as a total surprise (sarcasm!) but: I wear dresses. All dresses, all the time. Even on the rare occasions I’m wearing jeans out of necessity (like this weekend, in which I wore jeans and hiking boots to take pictures in the great dead […]
Hey kids! You may remember my post about eShakti.com. You may have thought to yourself, “wow, self, I’d totally like to order from them but it seems like it might be a crapshoot, therefore I sure wish Lesley from Fatshionista would come up with a way to enable a probably-unnecessary personal purchase during the season […]
By now, I expect it’s fairly well-traveled news that Canadian airlines are being forced to comply with a decision by the Canadian Supreme Court, that all air passengers have a right to a one-person, one-fare rule. This is topical because of the obvious controversy in how this is being applied to fat people. Essentially, the […]
Click through to the Flickr versions for outfit info. I don’t wear the exact same outfit twice. Ever. It’s true that I probably put a disproportionate amount of thought into what I wear every day – and this goes back to the days in which I discovered Style, during my heavily subcultural youth – but […]
I’ll repeat the title, just to be clear: Amanda Palmer, of both solo career and as half the duo known as the Dresden Dolls, is not fat. I say this mostly from having seen pictures of her, since my only real-life experience was bumping into her in the audience at a Death in June show […]
CNN’s next headline: New study reveals fatness is NOT dumbbell-shaped and carried in one’s hands.
By Lesley | November 21, 2008
I often deride CNN.com as the home of the random weight-loss success story recast as News Event. So the story this time is the standard triumph-over-adversity tale of weight loss through Diet and Exercise TM. Woman is Death Fat, her knees hurt, she gets out of breath taking a book off a table. Woman Changes […]
Click through to the Flickr versions for outfit info. On this blog, I tend to shy away from offering anything approaching concrete advice. I’m just not good at giving advice related to style (other kinds of advice I can be positively obnoxious about, but I digress). Style, in my opinion, is extraordinarily subjective; so long […]
Full disclosure: I am resistant to writing tutorials. This is partly because I have an unfortunate (and very female) tendency to devalue my own work and capabilities. I avoid telling folks how to do things because I don’t like being authoritative, and I occasionally think whatever I’m sharing is dumb or obvious. As is the […]
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