I think I must be coming into my crone energy.  I just am not willing to put up with people being assholes anymore ( Read more... )

Hi Friends:

My friend Francesca Gentille shared an excellent essay (reproduced below), on masks, roles, embracing all of oneself, and how these things interact with our choices of clothing--on this day, and any day. I highly recommend reading it.

I had some tangentially related thoughts while reading her essay, however, and I wanted to share them ( Read more... )

[re-posting this from my Uncharted Love blog, because I thought folks here might enjoy it as well.  My apologies for duplication for those of you who get my posts in other ways!]


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I'm having one of those "huh" moments.  Reading a list of "things we shouldn't do to our bodies" called "Top 10 crimes against nature" (so I suppose I should have expected this??) I ran across this entry below.  At first, I thought, "hooray!"  And then I read the last sentence.  I'm honestly not sure how to parse this.  WTF?

Bariatric SurgeryAt best ( Read more... )

Some references regarding Health At Every Size (HAES); BMI (Body Mass Index) vs. Longevity and other health indicators; weight/size bias; and diabetes. Drawn from all over the web, and some of the text here isn't even my own (quoted directly from some of the other sources.) This material was intended to address the (paraphrased) statement (by ( Read more... )

Dear poly friends, parents, kids, and others:

I have, over the past 12 months or so, especially, heard complaints
about the lack of accommodation for parents (or other specific groups)
at the East Bay Poly Potlucks. I also have received concerns about ( Read more... )

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Some words I wrote elsewhere (very slightly edited), and would like to remember. I hope you find them useful as well ( Read more... )