For the past week I have been taking my birth control pills one day ahead of schedule. What can I say? I live for the future. I took my Monday pill on Sunday and I took Tuesday's pill today. I'm...
This whole time I've neglected to mention that those surprise earrings I got for Christmas were made by Nat at Evil Eye Emporium. Thanks, Nat! (Thanks also to Cinnamon and Brenda for their help!)...
For details about and stuff I'll be doing in the next couple of months, including a reading in the west suburbs (Chicago) in March....
January I went boot camp crazy: did way too many lunges, squats. Thanks to this stupid page in Feb. you could calculate our mutual hots! In March I blathered on and on about horoscopes, Kirstie, and chick lit. April was...
Maybe you thought your weekend was hot shit, but you weren't riding the CTA Santa Train when it totally derailed. (Again!) And you probably didn't build a Gingerbread Currency Exchange either. Then again, you might have actually gotten all...
For those of you coming here after reading the article on women bloggers in January's issue of Glamour, welcome. More about me here; older entries (including the one quoted in the magazine) are here and here, and yet more of...
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Check out this article by Laura Kipnis on the politics of fat in Slate. I’ve been a fan of her stuff ever since I read a chapter she’d written about fat in her book Bound and Gagged.
Which, you should probably know, is a book about p0rnography. (And pop culture, and politics, but also, yeah, smut.) It's one of the first articles of cultural criticism I'd ever read about fat and it helped start me thinking about fat and weight in ways that weren't just personal.
In this new article I think she's overstating a lot of things, like the level of faith that some people supposedly have in the "fat is genetic" argument (does anyone fully buy that?), but it's still worth reading.
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