Archive for March, 2009
things i’m done apologizing for
things im done apologizing for:
1. my weight and how much space i take up
2. my beliefs and the way that i share them (i’m done saying in class: i’m sorry but, or maybe this is wrong but, only declarative statements from now on!)
3. my age, just because I’m young doesn’t mean that I don’t have [...]
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A big fuck you to the naysayers
So this weekend was Swarthmore’s Sager Symposium, the theme was: Intersections of Queer: Coalition Building Across Our Communities. As a member of the planning committee I was super excited about the people we were bringing (Amber Hollibaugh, Yasmeen Perez, Caitlin Breedlove, Reina Gossett, Colin K. Donovan, and Sassafrass Lowrey). Yeah I know… amazing [...]
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Service and young people
In the past few days I have been bombarded with this idea of service. Professor Juan Battle came to Swarthmore for our Sager Symposium and talked about Race, Gender, and Sexuality. During his concluding remarks he continued to push service as the way to work for social justice. This paired with Obama’s [...]
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Tags: service, young people
SEX!–and fatness
Let’s get serious. Sex is amazing and it’s important that we are able to share openly with our partners about what we want and what feels good and what doesn’t. I know for me this is always complicated by my size.
I am waiting for the day when a book [...]
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Tags: fatphobia, sex
Just a tribute to my three favorite ladies on RuPaul’s Drag Race. i think the are each so fantastically beautiful in different ways and I love them!
Also, I cried for like 15 minutes when Bebe won.
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Exercise/Diet and Fatness
Today I started my required Physical Education class for Swarthmore’s PE requirement for graduation. A lot of the exercise today required lifting weights in front of an inappropriately large mirror so that we can look at our form. I found myself having to remind myself of the “fat is beautiful” mantra I have been telling [...]
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Tags: exercise, fatphobia
Dave Chappelle-Funny and True
I think this is so funny and also so true the way that Ashton Kutcher and Punk’d more generally utilizes the police to punk Black actors/celebrities.
I also think that using humor is a great way to effectively share a message. It is one that must be done very tactfully (and [...]
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Tags: humor
Athens Boy Choir-Fagette
Enjoy… I love this song.
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Coming Out as Fat
It has been interesting recently to start writing this blog and identifying myself as “fat,” like for many being a person of color, being disabled–being fat is something that is perceptible to those who see you. It’s not something you necessarily have to name yourself as for people to perceive you as. Which is why [...]
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Tags: fatphobia, self-love
My friend alerted me to a section in the study abroad guide given out at our school where under culture shock is this anecdote:
“A few years ago, a female student attending a home stay program in Italy complained to her program staff that she had been sexually harassed by her host brother. She subsequently described [...]
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Tags: sexism, sexual violence
