Heather, Number 25: I knew that diets don’t work, but I thought it was my fault. Then a concerned and non-judgmental friend gave me the book Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere. After a couple of weeks the...
Sarah Terez Rosenblum interviewed me, and Patty Michels took the photo. Yay!
I wrote a little essay about the end of our dog Solly’s life for USA Weekend. Really little. I turned in 600 words (which was hard enough for a longwinded wonder like me), and they ran about 40...
“As the new upper class increasingly consists of people who were born into upper-middle-class families and have never lived outside the upper-middle-class bubble, the danger increases that the ...
Occupy Valentine’s Day
(Title stolen from Jessica Valenti. Most of the non-penis-related words below stolen from Simon Doonan, because COME ON.) The larger dick became the norm around the turn of the century, and it shows...
So, I’m moved to blog for the first time in ages by something Rebecca Watson said in this post. It’s about a 15-year-old girl who posted a picture of herself (holding a Carl Sagan book) i...
If you note the American tradition of taking leftovers home from restaurants in the same breath as you express shock and horror at our portion sizes, you have forfeited the right to get all, “T...
If you go to the front page of Shapely Prose, the fat acceptance blog I headed up between 2007 and 2010, you will find a big “Sorry, we’re closed” sign under the words “Welcom...
As I was sitting in the Chicago History Museum’s Rubloff Auditorium on Saturday, waiting for Michael Taussig’s talk, “Beauty and the Beast: The Monstrous Side of Plastic Surgery,...
Cross-posted to the Chicago Humanities Festival blog. The fourth annual Hyde Park day was an abject failure in terms of my overachiever’s schedule (act surprised), but nevertheless one of the b...
Here’s the text of my contribution to last night’s Encyclopedia Show on robots, part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. When Shanny first sent me my assignment–”You, Kate Har...
Cross-posted to the Chicago Humanities Festival blog. Two weeks ago, my husband, Al, and I brought home a puppy. Important background information: three weeks ago, Al and I did not want anything to d...
I was fortunate enough to be invited to guest blog for this year’s Chicago Humanities Festival. Between now and mid-November, I’ll be posting about it periodically, both here and on the C...
Last week, it finally came time to put our beloved pug/corgi cross, Solomon, to sleep. I adopted Solly in May of 2000, when he looked like this: In the last few years, no one believed me that his fac...
The AWP 2012 panel selections were announced yesterday, which means my social networks are blowing up with celebration, bitterness, and some legitimate questions about the selection process. Right of...
Regarding the news that Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting divorced, in part because he fathered a child with a woman not his wife, Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic writes, “I’ve yet to e...
Marianne and I got a very kind note from a reader over at the Perigee blog today. I am beyond grateful to Marianne and Kate for writing a book that helped me stop feeling ashamed and guilty and conf...
So, my horrifying college graduation photo is currently on the cover of Salon, because I wrote an essay for their new “Mortifying Disclosures” series about being an English major who neve...
Yesterday, I asked all of my Facebook friends and Twitter followers to give me the title of one classic English-language novel I must read, assuming I’ve read none. I haven’t counted but ...
Apropos of photographer Irina Werning’s fantastic “Back to the Future” project, my pal Robin Abrahams asked on Facebook what photos the rest of us would choose to recreate if we had...
This one. I’m gonna be working on it! If this is the sort of news that interests you, you should pay attention to the book’s Tumblr and Twitter, where Anna Holmes, Jez staff and I will be...
I didn’t get to watch the debate about defunding Planned Parenthood (and other providers of reproductive healthcare) last night, but based on the live tweeting I saw, I couldn’t wait for ...
I actually thought I was done publicly complaining about Dan Savage’s intractable bigotry, but here I am again. Why? Because, instead of giving any real thought to the points raised by his fuck...
Awesome person Kathleen Richter drew this poster for an imaginary movie about ass-kicking feminists — and I’m one of ‘em! — back around the time of Moore and Me. And now it...
Like pretty much everyone else, I’m reeling from the news out of Arizona yesterday and hoping congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords pulls through. I don’t have much to say about the shooting i...
By my friend Jess, aka @electricpenguin. In 2004, my mom and I attended the March for Women’s Lives in DC. According to NOW, the organizers of the march, its aim was to “demand political ...
I Some questions Keith Olbermann has asked of #mooreandme supporters, and my responses: Olbermann [to Sady Doyle]: [W]hy are you encouraging smoking by women in your avatar? A. What? Seriously? OK, w...
Did @KeithOlbermann just say “blocks are infinite“? Is that like saying “the ground is lava!”? –@andreagrimes, who has been cracking me up all day.
From The Guardian: A wealth of hostile material attacking the two women has appeared on the internet since August, when they took their complaints to the police. Their right to anonymity has been aba...
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