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As promised, for the benefit of certain people who are out of the country and unable to join us for the year’s greatest televisual spectacle, here are our first impressions of this year’s BB contestants. ( Read it or don't: you decide )

So much to report and not enough time to do it! But basically last Friday I went to speak at the Fat Studies UK seminar (along with charlottecooper) which was really amazing. Every talk was interesting and different, which I think shows how dynamic fat studies is, and it was good to be in a room of people who didn't make a strange wincing face when you said the ( Read more... )

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Last night we forewent the opportunity to go out and see The Priscillas in favour of a pizza and the World's Strongest Man qualifiers on channel 5. Here at Savage HQ we enjoy the strongman competitions, just for the spectacle of the bodies and over-enthusiasm of the commentry, and the crazy events like the 'fingle's fingers'. What we particularly ( Read more... )

We should be revising Buffy or going to bed, but who can resist a meme?

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It’s been a while since our last post, but rest assured, all is well in Savageworld. This Sunday night you find us listening to the Emma Pollock album and enjoying a cup of tea and a vanilla kipferl at home. Flamingo is doing some painting by numbers (a delightful panorama of London in purple and orange, it will make quite the addition to the ( Read more... )

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In case anyone doesn't already know, tonight is the So What's Your Theory? night at Loom (formerly Needles - home of Homocrime). There's music from Drunk Granny, Husbands and Jean Genet, DJing from the Bops, and most excitingly Judith "Jack" Halberstam will be giving some kind of talk. It's all my favourite things together at last. Fun starts at ( Read more... )