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Hello dear long-neglected flist, who I have neglected for a long, long time ( Read more... ) -
Not so gaga about Gaga
An excellent anti-dote to the Gaga-gaga that's doing the rounds at the moment:
http://gudbuytjane.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/lady-gaga-sets-the-record-straight/
No, I am not a fan. -
elsewheres
I made myself a tumblr: http://fatuosity.tumblr.com/
Also a foodie blog: http://gretelgettingfatter.wordpress.com/ (Go look! There's a recipe for blintzes!) -
****EPIC GEEK SQUEE***
PLEASE CIRCULATE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES
Call For Papers
Fat Studies: A Critical Dialogue
To be held 10 11 September, 2010
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
While cultural anxieties about fatness and stigmatisation of fat bodies in
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Me me me me!
So I pretty much never do these end of year things, but dammit, 2009 has been a really great year for me. So rather than meandering through what I remember, this will at least give my ramblings some structure:
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Started a PhD. Worked for an organisation whose values are congruent with mine. ( Read more... ) -
five small and excellent things
1. Meredith was awesome! There were so many cute, chubby, well-dressed girls and boys there that I wish I'd taken a camera so I could make a fat camp style photo blog. I have lots more to say about it, but it will have to wait for another post.
2. I have a copy of The Fat Studies Reader! I can't wait to get into it!
3. We went to see Where ( Read more... ) -
Best conversation I've had all week
Me: I think I want to do some academic work on Hedonism.
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I know this is, like, so behind the times, but could someone please explain to me why 'Single Ladies' is supposed to be such a great video. One of the feminist blogs I read just linked to it again, describing it as 'fierce', and I JUST DON'T GET IT. It's three women dancing like women dance in video clips. WHY? -
Breakfast! And other delicious foodz!
Y'all, I love breakfast! I mean really, really LOVE it. One of my favourite things about studying from home is that I can make myself a cooked breakfast (if I don't have to go to work or do anything else early in the day, that is). This morning it was a FRIKKEN' DELICIOUS combo of home-made spicy baked beans with sour cream, veggie sage and ( Read more... ) -
Places to go, things to do
So I'm doing this PhD on fatness and sexual subjectivity, right. Part of what I'm looking at is the interventions fat people are making into representation and discourse; how we negotiate/re-negotiate our fat identities. In a way, it's sort of turning into a thesis on the fat/size acceptance movement. And because of that, I want to do some ' ( Read more... )