Archive For The “Lesley” Category
Click through to the Flickr version for outfit info. Earlier this week I had the pleasure of communicating with a delightfully thoughtful and well-intentioned columnist over at the Daily Beast (Hi, Daily Beast readers! Comments here are moderated!) for a piece she was writing about plus-size fashion. The finished product – which I call unequivocally […]
This morning I had an email asking me to respond to some (very common, but worthwhile nonetheless) questions. Excerpted below: I used to be over 300 pounds, as many fatshionistas are. In principle, I believe in Health at Every Size. I thought I ate healthy and was not inactive, and my weight never went down. […]
Last week I skimmed an interview with Beth Ditto, talking about her upcoming Evans line. Though I don’t expect to buy anything from it (I’d be happy to be wrong! But it would take something impressive indeed to convince me to deal with the international shipping), I’m excited to see this happen for a few […]
Back in November of 2008, I wrote a post in which I used the phrase “death fat”. At the time, I didn’t actually expect people would connect with it in such numbers. As a result, I’ve been continually surprised by the ongoing adoption of death fat, by bunches of people in bunches of contexts. However, […]
Oh Avenue. ALL I WANT TO DO IS GIVE YOU MONEY IN EXCHANGE FOR GOODS. That’s all! I don’t want us to be friends. I don’t even care if we’re barely civil to one another, given that I loathe probably 85% of what’s on your website at any given moment and I resent that you […]
Over the past couple of days, Fatshionista.com has been featured in pieces in the New York Times, what looks to be a lifestyle/magazine site in China, and an Italian women’s-issues blog. (Also on Jezebel for the second time in two weeks, though they misspelled the site name again. Ha. Oh, but I do enjoy Jezebel.) […]
Currently there’s a lot of interesting conversations happening around the Obama administration’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. Those who oppose her have brought up some interesting objections, such as the inevitable references to her diabetes (because culture tells us not being in perfect health makes you morally suspect). Even before the nomination was […]
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 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 – […]
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