icon: "spiritual (a photo of a snow leopard with (edited) violet eyes staring straight into the camera)"So, I went to Atlanta Poly Weekend (APW) yesterday and today, and had intended to go to all of it but I've discovered that even though the anxiety meds help enough to keep me from spiraling into negativity from not being able to interact, they ( Read more... )

There are all these assumptions people put on you when you have a fat body. Fat is culturally assigned meanings such as lazy, gluttonous, unproductive, unhealthy, unclean, smelly, monomaniacal, obsessed with food, undesired, second-rate, clumsy, ashamed or stupid, unworthy of life. I know well that I am none of those things yet I feel the ( Read more... )

using my ethical storytelling rating system (for films/shows):

Happy Go Lucky (2008 Ireland) [Comedy/Drama] Director: Mike Leigh. Writer: Mike Leigh( detailed ratings )

17 Again (2009 USA) [Comedy/Fantasy] Director: Burr Steers Writer: Jason Filardi ( detailed ratings )

Plusses: sex/gender (1) no stereotyped characters (1) 3D characters (1-2) passes the Bechdel test (1-2) subversive (1-3) actively calls out bullshit
race/ethnicity (1) inclusion without stereotyping (1) 3D characters (1-2) passes Bechdel (1-2) subversive (1-3) actively calls out bullshit
ableism/lookism (1) inclusion without stereotyping (1) 3D ( Read more... )

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