Hooboy, exhausting day. I'm waaaaaay less joint-achy this week than I have been in the long time, but the full body 'beaten-with-a-bat' muscle soreness has been more present than absent, and the fatigue just won't quit. So, of course today was a bus day that went straight into a surprise two and a half hour meeting. Blarg ( Read more... )

Help buy Body Positive billboards!
More: We are standing up for kids and saying enough is enough! By now you’ve heard of Strong4Life, a campaign by the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta that shames and humiliates fat kids under the guise of promoting health. They have billboards up all over Atlanta, reinforcing a message of shame and stigma every ( Read more... )

Whenever I take surveys with a lot of free text answers I try to copy them out for my own reference. These are my answers to some of the free text questions on the survey for the new version of Big Big Love about sexuality and fat. I may expand on them if I have enough brain cells rubbing together (I'm kind of migrainey and brainfoggish, and wasn ( Read more... )

CLEAN PURE SOFT FRESH: A Whole New World of Vagina Spray -- I'm having trouble making it all the way through the article; my eyes keep rolling.

It has always been fashionable, in pushing back against LGBT rights and against the women’s movement, to invoke “nature.” These arguments often apply highly contestable interpretations of nature, but I don ( Read more... )

Well, apparently everyone else is out or asleep, so I guess I may as well tackle a few other writing prompts I've left myself, since I'm not tired or in the mood to go out.

( some thoughts on reactions to my fat )

This launches from Kevin Smith being kicked off his plane for being "too fat", but goes on in a positively inspired rant about discrimination against fat people -- it's utterly and entirely worth reading even if you're already caught up with Kevin's Smodcast and all.

Firecat points to a Health at Every Size brochure from the Wellness Council of Americahttp://welcoa.org/freeresources/pdf/10thingsyoucandorightnow.pdfRead more... )

Hey, cassidyrose, that wasn't a one-time example of Amazon FAIL. Check out what I just got:

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

As someone who has purchased or rated Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica by Hanne Blank, you might like to know that The Positive Portions Food & Fitness Journal will be released on January 25, 2010.( Read more... )

cupcakecomplex's awesome Cupcake and Cuddlebunny: Retro-Inspired Couture for Plump Dumplings

and cassidyrose's passion, Big Moves, dance for all sizes ( Read more... )