I read blogs daily, and bookmark a lot of links for you guys, but don’t always manage to write about everything. So this week I’m going to try a little links roundup… in case you missed it.
First up, Fatly Yours, about the idea that size-acceptance blogs are just “fat people sitting around making excuses”:
I [...]
Filed under: Advocacy, Books, Fashion, Fat Positive, Fatism, Feminism, Links, Meta, Project Runway, Race & Ethnicity, TV | 4 Comments »
Jennette Fulda, better known as PastaQueen, may have lost a couple hundred or so pounds, but she’s been a commenter on and visitor to Big Fat Deal for a long time. On a blog tour for her memoir, Half of Me, she offered to stop by and answer the toughest questions I could come up [...]
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Celia Kyle writes sexy-sexy romance novels featuring plus-sized heroines. Commenter mccn volunteered to do a totally honest review of one of Celia’s books, as I thought some of you might be interested. Enjoy!
The best sex comes with humour. Whether it’s being able to share a laugh at the noises bodies make when they [...]
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When I was in junior high, I read V.C. Andrews and The Baby-sitters Club, not Sweet Valley High. I do remember seeking out the one where someone named, I think, Regina dies of a cocaine overdose. But beyond that, I wasn’t interested. I just couldn’t relate to Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. I was neither [...]
Filed under: Books, Feminism, Kids, Personal | 38 Comments »
I read a book recently that is both wildly popular and fat positive: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. I wrote about it in my book blog:
The heroine (Mma Ramotswe I think is the spelling) is one of the best characters ever, seriously. How much do I love her? And sure, I’m biased because [...]
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The fancy new redisigned The F-Word has an interview up today with Gina Kolata, author of Rethinking Thin.
In Rethinking Thin, you contend that the diet industry often only succeeds in fattening the pocketbooks of a multi-billion dieting industry, while hopeful dieters lose only money. Why then do so many Americans continue to buy in [...]
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According to Manolo for the Big Girl, Harry Potter is pro-fat. (Although I have to say, I hardly think giants count.) (Also, since when is Neville Longbottom fat? Is he fat?)
While I notice that, at first glance, a few of the overweight characters are stereotypically written as “bumbling” or “jovial,” on the whole the [...]
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We’ve known for a while that Leonard Nimoy was working on a big-girl photography project, but it’s been in the news lately because his book is coming out. This New York Times article, sent to me by a handful of delightful people while I was on a Big Fat Vacation, gives a nice overview.
The [...]
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If you’re overweight, the good news is that it may be primarily caused by genetics, rather than any sort of failure or lack of willpower on your part. The bad news is that your body doesn’t want you to lose it. And if you do lose it, your body wants you to gain [...]
Filed under: Books, Health, Science | 14 Comments »
You probably know some former fat people—people who have lost a lot of weight and have kept it off. Some of them have seemingly lost a lot of empathy for other fat people. This woman, for instance, has called a stranger “lardass” and secretly judges her fat friends:
I find that I sometimes [...]
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My manager at work just came by and we were chatting about weight loss (we’ve both been doing Weight Watchers). She mentioned that The Secret (that book you may have heard of that is both crazy popular and… crazy) tells you a (crazy) way to lose weight. The book is based on visualizing [...]
Filed under: Books, Humor, Weight Loss | 25 Comments »
In the comments of our still-lively discussion about Sal’s blog entry, Wendy alerted us to this story, about an author named Penelope Trunk who disagrees with the argument of a rival author, Leslie Bennett, about stay-at-home motherhood.
“Trunk decided to take the low road, ridiculing Bennetts as ‘INCREDIBLY FAT!!!’ (All caps and exclamation points hers, of [...]
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