Posts Tagged “fatshionista.com”

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY: Death Fat contextualized

By | June 19, 2009

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, […]

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Dear Avenue.com: I Hate You. I Really, Really Hate You.

By | June 15, 2009

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 […]

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making accessories work

By | June 10, 2009

I love cleavage. I love that one of the most recent Fatshionista Twitter questions involving summer accessories involved queenbbb admitting that cleavage was a favorite summer accessory. I agree, summer cleavage makes me and Regina Spektor happy. There’s so much to it; how to get the right pusher-upper bra if you want a particular look, […]

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Outfit Blogging: What lies beneath?

By | June 5, 2009

I love dresses and skirts, but I do not love the painful chub rub that can happen when I wear them. “Chub rub” is such a polite way of putting it. Basically, when two thighs rub each other many things can happen. Among them are skin irritation, chafing, pain, and agony. Painful ingrown hairs, infected […]

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Fatshionista World Domination Threat: IMMINENT

By | June 2, 2009

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.) […]

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The Curvy Collective and Full Figure Fashion Week

By | June 2, 2009

When Marie Denee, fashion blogger extraordinaire, approached fatshionista.com about being a part of the upcoming Full Figure Fashion Week, we jumped at the chance! Co-founded by Marie and Johara Tucker of Luvin’ My Curves, the Curvy Collective is a group of plus size fashion bloggers and plus size magazines who will be attending and/or speaking […]

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Racism: Still Not Over

By | June 1, 2009

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 […]

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Diversity, Shmiversity: Clarifying A Point

By | May 29, 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 […]

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Outfitblogging: Wishes

By | May 29, 2009

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 […]

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On How I learned to love mascara…

By | May 27, 2009

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 […]

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