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Thoughts on Being “Othered”.
A few days ago I was writing an email to a friend of mine about fat, fashion and marginalisation, and while I was doing so, quite a few things kind of went “Ping!” in my head, and I realis… more →
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Why Do We Live In A World That's Petrified Of Women Who Love Sex?
wrote 2 months ago: Oldspeak: “Men are expected to be constantly-horny fuckbeasts, and women are expected to not w … more →
Thoughts on Being "Othered".
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wrote 3 months ago: A few days ago I was writing an email to a friend of mine about fat, fashion and marginalisation, an … more →
2012: The Year of Living Fatly
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wrote 4 months ago: I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. I see them as the perfect way to set oneself up for … more →
Tattoos and Candy Coloured Hair: Sending a Message to Young People
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wrote 5 months ago: Some few weeks ago you might have seen some furore around the traps about a tattooed Barbie Doll wit … more →
Cut the Snarky Fashion Judgement Crap
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wrote 5 months ago: Sigh… I am working on a rather epic piece about awesome women with tattoos and candy hair, whi … more →
Class Dismissed: How Television Frames The Working Class
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wrote 5 months ago: Oldspeak:“Class Dismissed explores the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect wit … more →
Defining My Identity
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wrote 7 months ago: I’m a little high on adrenaline tonight. I’ve had some more work done on my left half s … more →
Breaking Down Fat Stigma: Criticism of Fat as Identity
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wrote 7 months ago: “Why the obsession with fatness?” I can’t tell you the number of times that I … more →
The Power of Community
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wrote 7 months ago: Yesterday, I found myself having a moment where it was keenly identifiable to me why the Fatosphere … more →
Keep Telling Your Story Until Someone Listens
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wrote 8 months ago: Let’s get something REALLY clear. When someone says they “respect your choices” as … more →
We've Done Our Time
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wrote 8 months ago: A little questionnaire for you all: How many years of your life did you put into trying to be thin? … more →
Breaking Down Fat Stigma: Anger
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wrote 8 months ago: I’m sure we’ve all heard it before. The old “Why are you so angry?” Or … more →
Breaking Down Fat Stigma: Greed
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wrote 8 months ago: You know, I think it’s time to address another topic in my series on fat stigma. Today’ … more →
Breaking Down Fat Stigma: Shame
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wrote 9 months ago: I talk about fat stigma a lot here on Fat Heffalump. It’s the biggest problem fat people face … more →
On Making Diabetics the Demons
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wrote 9 months ago: Well the Fatosphere has been alive this week with discussion on the rather awful piece by Jess Weine … more →
On Flattering and Fat
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wrote 10 months ago: It seems I have a rather large influx of new people viewing Fat Heffalump again all of a sudden. We … more →
The Right of Self Advocacy
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wrote 10 months ago: I’m going to talk about another recurring theme of the kind of comments we see on (and in) art … more →
The Old "But Fatties are Costing Us Money!" Argument
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wrote 10 months ago: Reading the comments on Rebecca Sparrow’s excellent post on Mamamia about fat discrimination ( … more →
Cinderella: Revised
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