Posted in feminism, tagged clubbing, feminism, night life on May 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Welll yesterday was quite the feminist stomachache. Recently, on some blog, a brilliant blogger pointed out that feminism is what helps explain the world around us, rather than just running around calling people assholes and thinking that its their individual behavior. This, however, is still hard to cope with- the individual behavior that hurts like [...]
Posted in body image, fat acceptance, feminism, tagged body image, eating disorders, ED, feminism, moms, mothers, parenting, parents, political action, politics, women on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
first draft of an essay I needed to write in order to emotionally compose for a paper I’m attempting…
Not too long ago I “came out” about my eating disorder. Like so many others my age, my eating disorder has for a long time been anything but glamorous. I certainly wasn’t the stick thin models [...]
Posted in feminism, tagged Denver Convention 2008, DNCC, Internship, politics on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
So, I’m off to Denver this summer in hopes of conributing to the effort to organize the DNC Convention. Talk about an opportunity to be a part of some history! If anyone has any leads for me in the Denver area about this… I’d love to have them. Especially if you have an in with [...]
Posted in anger, college, feminism, tagged anger, feminism on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks. again, Kate Harding. This is the kind of talk back we need for all the bullshit.. “but is it REALLY…” and “why can’t we talk about the REAL issues…”
check it out @ Shakesville
And a bit of brilliance from it, my emphasis….
“You know, I recently wrote a short piece about how Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville helped turn me [...]
Posted in body image, diet, eating disorder, feminism, food, self reflection, tagged diet, feminism, friendship on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to The F-Word for this post, talking about the collective club of “who can eat less.” The New Thirteen recently also had a post about her own experiences regarding the eat less= be feminine and good thing we’ve got going on.
I thank my lucky stars, that despite being familiar with the behavior of competative [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, college, feminism on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
So, an 18 year old dies from voluntary surgery, a breast augmentation to be exact.
“doctors believe Kuleba died of a rare and potentially deadly genetic reaction to general anesthesia known as malignant hyperthermia”
Ok so a few bones to pick with this one. First, every girl, and every woman, has the right to do whatever the [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, fashion, female sports, feminism, racism on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m actually spitting fire right now. So I’ll just post the images from Vogue’s supermodel/athlete shoot. No female athletes.
Posted in election, feminism, politics, racism on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
In response to Hillary’s comments about how she would not have chosen Wright as her pastor. (fucked up for race reasons!)
“Hillary chose to stay with Bill Clinton after he cheated on her, numerous times, and publicly humiliated her, numerous times. And Bill Clinton is not blood related to her but is certainly like family.”
ummm ok. [...]
Posted in fat, fat acceptance, feminism, obesity epidemic, racism on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the fantastic things about blogging is the practice we get in dialogue. Standing up for our opinions, seeing others, and conversing accordingly. Last year I had a fantastic professor who focused on taking on the rhetoric of white america, trying and failing, to deal with racism. It was tough, because it made us [...]
Posted in college, fat acceptance, feminism, self reflection on March 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As a college student, I’ve generally shunned this whole coveted “internship” thing. I am white and privileged so I could get one pretty easily, but damn, my time is worth… oh yes….MONEY, thank you- not to mention who gets served by rules that reward kids being able to take on free labor during their summers [...]
