December 2010
60 posts
“Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and...”
– Wittig 1992
NEW RULE
Totally, this is gonna be mandatory when Professor Bec rolls onto campus… (s’cuse the pun..)
johnnysaisquoi:
Anyone who responds to a post about body image or unrealistic beauty standards with “BUT OBESITY ISN’T HEALTHY EITHER!!!!!!!!11” will be forced to write a 10 page research paper on the history and flaws of the BMI system. Anyone protesting this rule on the grounds that...
I Feel like there is a war between Fat and Skinny...
I know that ‘thinspos’ that reblog our pictures to body shame us is wrong and hurtful, especially when they exercise their unexamined privilege at our expense all the while hurting their own bodies, but they are not the enemy.
We cannot claim to be different from them when we reblog their hate and pain and unhealthy notions of beauty to make some kind of point about what it is we...
“I have definitely gotten to the point where I always feel really good about my...”
– Jessica (tangledupinlace)
this girl is seriously one of the most inspiring people i have ever known. everything she says is like a lightbulb turning on in my head. her words of wisdom are a big part of why i have grown to love my body the way that it is.
(via emie-d)
Best Friend Pizza Parties...
This Christmas I am coming out as a fatty to my...
Grandad and Nandy, I have something to tell you and you may not like it.
I’m fat.
I’m probably going to be fat for the rest of my life.
You see, my body is extremely political so I understand that this is a concern for you. I am an embodiment of a particular discourse, a ‘moral panic’ if you will. This is an epistemologically questionable discourse, but life changing for myself and those around...
mangowho asked: i have an accent? lol
Cuddlez Application! (better than the last one I...
Name: Bec Age: 25 Where do you live?: Adelaide, South Australia Preferred Pronoun: She Gender: fluid but mostly female Sexual Orientation: Unclassifiable Interests: The body as a site of cultural and political meaning, space/place and the meanings of ‘home’, gender performativity, postcolonialism Hobbies: writing fiction and non fiction, vegan cooking, photographing things...
Dear stophatingyourbody
your blog had the best intentions, it really did. For a while there you had a positive message. However you seem to be encouraging a hub of self hate and bigotry with the submissions being young cis gender thin privilege girls identifying the exact things they hate about themselves TO THE LAST FAT CELL OR OPEN PORE before they claim acceptance which is really sad and makes my heart break. Frankly,...