Apparently Fat Betty Draper Francis is causing an uproar on the internets. I’ll have more thoughts on this once my eye-rolling muscles recover. Did you see me on CNN this week? And then The Dai...
I get a lot of comments about my writing making people cry. It used to happen here periodically, and it now happens on xoJane with an impressive regularity. I’m never sure how to respond. Thoug...
Hey folks. It’s been awhile. Obviously I’ve been elsewhere… since October. I’m vaguely embarrassed by this, as historically I’ve gotten peeved with bloggers I liked gett...
Sesame Street has added a new muppet: Lily was introduced in an hour-long special entitled “Growing Hope Against Hunger”. Her purpose is to give kids in food-insecure households someone t...
When the opportunity arose to review Nordstrom Rack, I was a little dubious. To be honest, I didn’t actually know that they carried plus sizes. Turns out they do, and starting September 15, they̵...
Things happened. I got a new job! After nearly ten years at my previous employer — which I now feel totally comfortable saying was Simmons College — the crazy kids over at xoJane.com sedu...
I know, its like all I am doing lately is quick little article-debunkings. Soon, my pets, I will have time for blogging again. Like roughly two weeks from now. Ahem. Lets start with the bad. Todays B...
Damn, y’all, how busy have I been? Really, really busy. A weekend ago I collaborated with the amazing Nancy Haque to deliver a workshop on radical fattery for Western States Center’s Comm...
The following was originally printed in the Summer 2010 “Body Issue” of Geez Magazine, a Canadian publication dealing with progressive spirituality. I just learned last week that it actua...
Its dick-tacular! Several of you have emailed me about this today, so here you go. Some dudes are planning a LAN party in Austin, TX to coincide with the release of Battlefield 3. Pretty much every F...
Shannon from Fierce Fatties tweeted a link at me earlier this week, to a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) about the obesity scourge. The RWJF, in case you’re unfamiliar wi...
Two researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have made a controversial recommendation in an opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association. They suggest that state laws go...
Hey kids! I hope every last one of you is having a marvelous weekend. I have been spending the lion’s share of my free time the past few weeks working on the first round of edits to my upcoming but a...
LOGIC: A sugar diet? Sure, why the hell not. Time has published an article about a marvelous new study out of Penn State on how the behaviors necessary to lose weight differ from those needed to keep...
Love at first sight, OMG. First, let’s talk about me. Over on xoJane, I’ve written about dudes’ urge to take pictures of their junk, and a really annoying Yoplait commercial (talk a...
[Note: This is a long, long, long post that delves deeply into gender and sexuality as presented in the Mass Effect video games, derived from the stuff I cut out of my prior post on playing Shepard a...
Blah blah blah controversial provacative blah blah Ladies, gentlemen, readers and friends of all genders, gather round, as The Sun wants to tell us a story. It all started when former UK pop star Cla...
Im Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite blog on the internets. Back when I used to play the MMOs, the game characters I created always tended to look the same — pale-skinned, vibrant-hair...
The mess in the backyard. In the seventh grade, I had a friend named Janine* who uttered the word “retarded” approximately every thirty seconds while she was awake. Kids at that age are terrible peop...
EXPLAIN YOURSELF! The Daily Mail is all up in Dawn French’s business. Let’s put our surprised faces on now. Evidently French recently turned up at the Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year a...
YAY THANKS OPRAH!Over on xoJane, I wrote a post about what Oprah and I have in common. When Oprah tries something new, millions of women will follow, diets included. And yet, if Oprah can’t manage to...
This is me. I say no a lot, usually with a cheery smile. Whenever I write things elsewhere that are critical of bodily norms, and especially about weight, there are always certain Bingo-friendly resp...
So xoJane is a thing, a new thing perpetrated by Jane Pratt, late of Sassy and Jane. The former was a massive influence on my formative years, the latter I loathed, just a little bit. Nevertheless, w...
Even Hatchetface knows she deserves adequate preventative care! A few sharp-eyed readers have sent me a link to this recent poll of South Florida ob-gyns, which revealed that some offices outright re...
Fat dudes get all the best stuff. Wheres MY tiger-drawn chariot? David Sirota is a columnist over at Salon, and a couple weeks ago, he wrote an article about the cultural differences in how fatness i...
Crinkle-cut fries: the special touch that makes it clear your meal has come from a school cafeteria. Five elementary schools in San Antonio are embarking on a “research project” which amo...
Out of the foam. My (relatively brief) analysis of Lady Gaga’s new video for “Judas” is up over on Gaga Stigmata. In it, I look at prostitution as the video’s main thematic th...
Three cheers for diversity! So! Brink is a shooty video game coming out tomorrow. I only know this because my husband is quite excited about it, and obviously my vagina acts as a barrier to my enjoyi...
Let’s start at the bottom, and work our way up. The Daily Mail, true to its usual levels of fail, has published an article whose sole purpose is to showcase a paranoid theory that wearing leggi...
Marianne took this. Damn my crooked leggings. So! Last weekend found Marianne and I in New York for the Fat Girl Fleamarket, and for our promised live Fatcast. The Flea was amazing, as usual, and I t...
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