So there's a really good, kinda old, Valentines-related post up at Shapely Prose about being fat and single.  It's pretty much awesome.  It touches on a lot of the reasons why I'm focussing my thesis on fatness and sexual subjectivity.  It touches on a lot of things I've been thinking about lately, especially in regard to emotional resources and ( Read more... )

So there was an interesting post over on
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I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love.  It's huge and desperate and longs to be proved wrong.  And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous.  If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession.  A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed and beneath pity.  Disgust is close and dignity is far ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm not all procrastination and lollipops.  I have actually been doing some work.  And in the process, I rediscovered one of my favourite quotes from one of my favourite writers on corpulence - the fabulous Hanne Blanke in her awesome book Big Big Love:

What makes a relationship or a sexual act ‘queer’ is not so much what it is but who does ( Read more... )