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Hello loves: the blog will be unusually quiet this week as tonight I am [anxiously] (fat-)flying to Los Angeles for three days, where the husband will be attending and reporting on E3 and I will be visiting museums and hopefully meeting up with a few far-flung West Coast friends, including the inimitable Joy Nash. Though […]
Golda at Body Love Wellness has the first of a three-part interview with Kai Hibbard, former finalist on The Biggest Loser, a show which I have recently disparaged on this blog: You get poked and prodded by complete strangers and nobody will tell you a single thing about what’s going on. And that point was […]
Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Breaking the Male Gaze: A Close Reading of “Alejandroâ€
By Lesley | June 9, 2010
The idea of the “gaze†as a broad psychological concept beyond the simple meaning of the word comes to us from Jacques Lacan, a French theorist (a psychoanalyst, really, but we won’t hold that against him) most influential in the mid-20th who was really very interested in how we look at things. Like many giant […]
Video: Megan Carter brings some body diversity to So You Think You Can Dance
By Lesley | June 3, 2010
EDIT, 6/7: The video clip above has been removed from YouTube because apparently fair use is dead. But check the comments for a link to a clip that’s still up. I love but one reality show in all the world; that show is So You Think You Can Dance, the equally exhilarating and tear-jerking dance […]
Ohio State University: ‘OBESE’ BMI DOES NOT HARM CURRENT HEALTH OF YOUNG ADULTS, STUDY SAYS Brant Jarrett, of Ohio State University, one of the researchers, said: “There is a myth going on. Our findings show being overweight is no different from being what we believe is a healthy weight and this is across a person’s […]
Warning: I generally don’t do “trigger” warnings, but these two videos are pretty disturbing to me. Given that I am not real easily disturbed, I figured it’d be smart to give y’all a heads up about that. The Washington Post has an article up today reviewing Jillian Michaels’ latest effort in her life’s mission to […]
My dear Marianne wanted Fatcast flyers to take to Wiscon this weekend, and so I rapidly assembled the glorified CS2 font-sampler above as a quarter-sheet flyer. Since I brought it up, how are you digging the podcast so far? We’ve covered the doctor, fatshion, and an assemblage of minor political points, including life as a […]
Somehow I’ve managed to go a few years now without an official comment policy. Well, I suppose I’d always had one, though it was nebulous and existed only inside my head and was primarily rooted in my intuitive sense of a commenter’s willingness to have a civil conversation, versus a commenter who is more into […]
Remember Hairspray? I refer, of course, to the 1988 John Waters masterpiece, the radical film that captured the finest moments of Ricki Lake’s career, and that first introduced an 11-year-old me to the majesty that is Divine. Now, remember how a few years ago they remade that landmark film into a watered-down piece of crap […]
I am having a moment. I’m hoping to capture this moment here, while I’m having it, and while this semi-embarrassing flood of memories is untainted by my having overthought and reassimilated them all into something that actually connects to the now. Much of what I write here on this blog could be classified as memoir, […]
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