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Musings from the Soapbox
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Standing on top of the soapbox, next to it, in front or behind - these are my musings.
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The Random Edition: Dan Gluibizzi

Easing back into regular blogging with another addition to my Random Edition series. // Gir meg selv en myk overgang til regelmessig blogging med et nytt innslag i "Random Edition" serien min...

27 mar 12

Hvorfor er det mer akseptabelt å være en feit mann enn en feit kvinne?

Beskjed fra forfatteren: Nettopp ja, hvordan forklare seks måneders fravær som hverken var planlagt eller annonsert? Det er egentlig ikke så mye å fortelle dere, bortsett fra at jeg åpenbart trengte ...

20 mar 12

Why is being fat more acceptable for men than it is for women?

Authors Note: Right, how to explain a six months unplanned, unannounced hiatus? There really isnt that much to tell, except that, clearly, I needed a break. Im not going to promise that Ill be postin...

19 mar 12

The Random Edition: Celebrate Diversity

NSFW // Bør kanskje ikke åpnes på jobb.A black-and-white drawn picture of 30 different vaginas seen from the front, numbered, and all in their own little frames. Below the vaginas "CELE...

26 sep 11

etsy

Etsy is a wonderful and confusing place, filled with treasures and absolute junk. I am by no means the most experienced etsy traveler out there, but as the time has passed I have gathered a few reaso...

24 sep 11 1 person likes this

I want you to love your body.

A lot of the time, when I climb atop my Fat Acceptance soapbox, I feel like people give me the side-eye. They wonder, "Why is she telling me this? Is she only saying this because she wants an exc...

15 sep 11

Et annerledes Norge

Kommentar fra forfatteren: Dette innlegget ble skrevet den 29. juli, men har av forskjellige grunner ikke blitt publisert før nå.Note from the author: This post was written on 29 July, but has, for v...

13 sep 11

Diets dont work

Diets dont work. A controversial statement if ever I wrote one. Yet, as one of the backbones of Fat/Size Acceptance, it is touted all over the Fatosphere. And just to be clear, were not jus...

23 jun 11

What happened while I wore a green skirt

I want to tell you a little story about something that happened to me while I was wearing the outfit displayed below. I dont know if it was the fatness, or the really green skirt, or the really ...

21 jun 11

OOTD: Green-eyed gypsy girl

Thanks to my parents for taking the pictures, and for putting up with me blaming them for my unphotogenic-ness!Takk til foreldrene mine for at de tok bildene, og for at de holdt ut med meg ...

28 may 11

Thin privilege checklist

 I can be sure that people aren’t embarrassed to be seen with me because of the size of my body.If I pick up a magazine or watch T.V. I will see bodies that look like mine that aren’t being lamp...

21 may 11

Dagens Antrekk: Global oppvarming, du behandler meg så pent!

Jeg har gått igjennom dette om og om igjen i hodet mitt, har jeg lyst til å begynne med Dagens Antrekk, eller "Outfit Of The Day", innlegg? Gjør jeg meg ikke sårbar når jeg setter et ansikt t...

21 may 11

OOTD: Climate change, you treat me so well!

Ive gone over and over this; do I want to do Outfit Of The Day posts? Wont putting a picture to my name open me up to scary people? Im not really that into clothes, so why would anyone care...

16 may 11

Internet shopping

Da jeg var yngre, og fortsatt passet inn i størrelsene de fleste butikker selger, hadde jeg en dyp skepsis overfor netthandel (eller katalog handel, som jo var det vi holdt på med da). Det ...

10 may 11

I ♥ Nemi!

09 mar 11

"Big boobs dont count if youre fat."

 Oh really!?? (NSFW) // Sier du det!?? (ikke helt trygt jobbmateriale dette)pinkprincesszoe: A gorgeous, fat woman, whose breasts count quite ... heavily. // pinkprincesszoe: Ei nydeli...

05 mar 11

PSA: hey, fat chick!

Det er en blogg på tumblr som heter hey, fat chick! og du bare må følge med på den!! Jeg tilbragte over en time med å gå igjennom den her om dagen, og mens jeg satt der kunne...

13 feb 11

Weight loss secret.

It took me a good long while to figure this out, so theres a chance what Im about to tell you will be a new thought. If that is the case, try not to focus on how you didnt put it together before...

02 feb 11

Tonight I needed a little inspiration

Sometimes, to combat the constant onslaught of fat negativity from society at large, I am in dire need of an antidote. Some inspiration, if you will.Tonight I found it at The Muse...

23 jan 11

♫ Raise Your Glass ♫

To: The People Who Are Wrong - In All The Right WaysFrom: P!nk

14 jan 11

FA =/= HAES

I read so many blogs where Fat Acceptance (FA) is written about almost as though it is interchangable with Health At Every Size (HAES), so I thought I should state it loud and clear here:FA does...

13 jan 11

You are good enough

You are good enough.You are good enough for life.You are good enough to be loved.You are good enough to love.You are good enough for sex.You are good enough not to have sex.You are good enough for fo...

04 jan 11

"You start wanting it."

Most of you will probably remember the much lamented TV show Huge. For those of you who dont, it was a show about a group of teenagers at fat camp. Alongside the usual teenagery type stuff, it d...

29 dec 10

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas ...

The holidays are upon us, and with them come the emotional minefields that make up the social gatherings of the season. We gather to celebrate with people we know anywhere from as well as a...

23 dec 10

Sometimes others say it better

 Dear friends, readers, and d-bags who end up reading this in the hope that Ill go on to abuse fat people. Obviously Im having some sort of writers block, or inspiration block, so in order to di...

20 dec 10

Skam er et våpen du ikke har rett til å bruke

Har du noen gang skammet deg? Ikke bare følt deg litt flau, men virkelig skammet deg. Gjorde du noe du visste du ikke burde gjøre, noe skikkelig, skikkelig dumt, og ble tatt på fersken av en du liker...

14 nov 10

Shame is a weapon you are not entitled to wield

Have you ever been ashamed? Not just a little embarrassed, actually ashamed. Did you do something you knew you shouldnt have; something really, really stupid, and got caught by someone you...

14 nov 10

Fet shopping i Oslo-området

Zizzi by Veronica featuring ZJ LeggingsFor my non-Norwegian reading friends: This post is about plus size shopping in the Oslo area, and therefore probably not all that interesting to most of you.&nb...

13 nov 10

A Scene ...

Trigger warning // Advarsel om utløsende innhold:Below I write about dieting and disordered eating, and the struggle to quit these behaviors. // Under skriver jeg om slanking og forstyrret spisi...

01 nov 10

Fatty Sex Talk

In case you arent aware of it, The Rotund has put up a post called Fatties Have Sex; In Which I Fumble Around Trying To Initiate Frank Conversation. Oh, The Irony. Theres so much stigma aro...

21 oct 10

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