Anyone how knows me knows that I am a staunch advocate for equality and anti-discrimination. Part of this extends to a rather controversial and frequently misunderstood type of advocacy: Fat Acceptance and Health at Every Size. When I tell people that I am this brand of advocate, or they discover through talking to me and my opinions become clear ( Read more... )

This semester, I took a class in Western poetry, specifically, "Love Lyrics in the Western World". From Sappho to (so far) Charlotte Mew, I've been getting a steady diet of the best that Antiquity and Anglophone countries have to offer. Sadly, the course has been limited for the sake of time and material to poets of the English speaking world, and ( Read more... )