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Join Me at the 2nd Annual Body Love Revolutionaries Telesummit!
Be sure to register and check out the Body Love Revolutionaries Telesummit that starts on January 31st with Marilyn Wann, Peggy Howell and me talking about activism. It is going to be amazing. For...
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Spreading the Love
Made by Ragen Chastain from Dance with Fat (More info about the video at the link). A response to the Australian Biggest Loser ad campaign. To view the original video click here, but should come with a...
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Support Stand4Kids!
Over the past few days Marilyn Wann has been creating posters of different fat activists to respond to Georgia’s Strong4Life campaign. They are amazing and everyone photographed has chosen their own...
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Fat Body Politics
As of January 2012 this blog has been renamed from Communications of a Fat Waitress to Fat Body Politics for a few reasons. The simplest is that I am no longer a waitress, and the larger picture is...
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The Road to Hell – Consequences of Good Intentions
On Tuesday Michelle Obama is going to appear on the Biggest Loser as part of her Let’s Move! campaign. This comes after she has spent the last 2 years as the First Lady of the United States continuing...
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Explaining Away Difference
For much of my life there has always been a major thread that I have felt links the way we feel about difference. We always want to understand it, to know why it exists but also to place it in a box...
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House of Cards
When I talk to people about my interest in fat studies and the work I do with Love Your Body Detroit, they often act as though they can never get the point I am at with my body. They believe that I...
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Trolling by Dude Bros™: Fat positive backlash in the spotlight
If you weren’t already aware, this past week has been dubbed “Fat Shaming Week” by a small group of men who incorrectly assume that shaming will actually make fat women thin. Leaving aside that these...
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Michigan Radio Interview
I was on Michigan Radio’s show Stateside talking about Melissa McCarthy’s Elle cover as well as the state of fat activism in Michigan. From the interview, Four covers were shot with four different...
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Call for Photos
On March 25th I will be doing a presentation at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Mi titled “Dissenting Bodies – Visibility, Fat Politics and Challenging Normal” during their Women’s History Month...
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March 25th Presentation at Oakland University
Come listen to me talk for a really long time. It will be fun I promise. As always, connect with me on tumblr and twitter.
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