I'm still having memory problems, chiefly an inability to remember words when I am trying to speak and, to a lesser extent, write. Also, concentration problems, difficulty prioritizing, and a short attention span (max of ~2 hrs., after which everything dies). I'm forgetting what I was talking about in the middle of talking about it several times ( Read more... )

TRIGGER WARNING: body image/eating disorder issuesI have started I don't know how many entries about body-image type stuff. This entry right here has been in my composition window for something like three days. Every time I start a post like this, I break it off because it feels like I have to give this long, involved history before I can talk ( Read more... )

Kate Harding has an article up at Broadsheet about the whole Kevin Smith vs Southwest Airlines / Flying While Fat thing. It's right here and I recommend you read it. It's a first-rate piece, and heartbreaking. If this can't humanize those horrible flying fat people for you, well, kindly go fuck yourself and get the fuck away from my corner of ( Read more... )

From an older interview with Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves.

Estés added, "I think that it is all right if people want to control their weight, as long as they don't make themselves sick about it. But I also think that there is something to be said for not causing a woman to spend a huge amount of her entire life ( Read more... )

The Sodomite Hal Duncan has a wonderful letter to share with you all this fine Friday afternoon.My own letter is below ( Read more... )

He's edited his entry and turned off comments. The edit is probably one of the funnier yet simultaneously sad things I've seen on the internet thus far. You should definitely go read it. I lol-ed. For so many reasons, I lol-ed. ETA: He's deleted the original entryHe's apparently bent out of shape that we weren't arguing the way he would prefer ( Read more... )

John C. Wright, aka johncwright.

It is completely up to you if you want to buy books written by this guy after reading what he thinks about homosexuality.

ETA: he deleted the original entryOn another note not related to the above in any way, I've got several hardcover books I don't want anymore. The books are in good shape, so I'm trying to think of a ( Read more... )

Sargon and I once took a training course at our zoo to become docents. We didn't finish, unfortunately, due to the fact that getting up at fuck-that-o'clock in the morning on a Saturday is not any fun at all, but we did see a lot of really nifty things ( Read more... )

My second post, "Respecting Pain" is up on The Rotund.

Because, for various reasons, I think we all need to be reminded:

Pain is pain.For very obvious reasons, we shouldn’t belittle someone else’s experience because they are in a place that we would envy, or because we have had worse, or because they had an experience that we simply wouldn’t ( Read more... )

I am overjoyed to announce that I have been asked to write for my favorite fat-acceptance blog, The Rotund.

Look! I've made my first entry already!

". . . That’s my goal: acceptance. And I don’t mean the kind of sour grapes 'acceptance' that always feels like a consolation prize for being a fuckup. I mean real acceptance. I don’t mean settling. ( Read more... )