Archive For The “Guestblogs” Category

I’m so pissed off it’s going to take an entire wedding cake to calm me down

By | April 16, 2008

I would like to preface this by saying that I debated whether to post this, as I am reluctant to give this article any more attention than it rightly deserves. It really is a self-indulgent piece of garbage and I regret that I wasted time reading it. However, I did read it, and I did […]

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You think you deserve this shame…

By | April 15, 2008

…BUT YOU DON’T. In Me & you & everyone we know Miranda July’s character has “low ankles” & so her shoes always chafe her skin. She believes that it is the (obviously deviant) shape of her ankles, more generally, HER body, that condemns her to a lifetime of ill-fitting shoes & blistered & bleeding feet. […]

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[Guestblog] Fatphobia: The Fat Elephant in the Room

By | March 30, 2008

Since, Peggy McIntosh’s White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, has been in the buzz on the blog here, I was reminded of a piece I wrote in 2003. It’s modeled after the format of White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, but in borrowing Ms. McIntosh’s form I am NOT trying to compare racism and fatphobia […]

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