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 funny, self reflection, spirituality on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Now I know this happens to some people. And I’m not trying to make light of it, but some interesting things come when the subject of death enters a conversation. Some friends and I were sitting around Friday night, having a beer at a local bar, when the idea of “What would you do if [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, self reflection, spirituality on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Two things happened yesterday. 1) I actually began to KNOW that if I was skinnier, I wouldn’t be happier or better. I knew it intellectually, I knew it, but I hadn’t yet REALLY had it penetrate into my real knowing. Its an amazing feeling. I could see myself as that much smaller, and knew that all [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, eating disorder, fat acceptance, self reflection on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
About a year ago. For years, I had swung between really caring that I couldn’t break my nasty, ugly habit (old words I used to describe my nails) and occasionally ceasing to notice, and thus ceasing to bite. I came up with theories about WHEN and WHY I would bite them, the traditional stuff about being stressed, [...]
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 [...]
Posted in college, self reflection on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
So I go to school back east for 10 days each semester. The school runs on the tutorial model of teaching, you study what you want to study. After attending “traditional” and “prestigious” universities… this rocks. I get to truly learn in an inderdiscplinary way- and learn the things that call to me. Rather than being [...]
Posted in heads up, self reflection on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m back East for school for the week (sounds weird right? My academic road will be in a post upcoming!). Its, ummmm intense. Hopefully I’ll get stuff posted because there’s QUITE a bit to blog about, but if not, I’ll see you in a week or so!
Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, diet, fat, fat acceptance, feminism, food, self reflection on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my best friends growing up was probably classified as “morbidly obese” by the BMI. I loved horses, and obsessed about them, but having 3 younger siblings, getting out to horse country from our city home was not something my parents put at the top of their priority list. So I spent many hours [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, feminism, food, self reflection, skinny, spirituality on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
While running today, the idea of my story came up. Lately I’ve found myself having flashbacks to moments that had then faded into my history as unremarkable. The moments that have added up to where I am now, mostly dealing with weight, beauty and how and when I learned the things I was “supposed” to [...]
Posted in body image, fat, fat acceptance, self reflection, spirituality on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A person, and teacher, who I admire greatly, once told me that I had “one of the greatest senses of justice” he’d ever encountered. I start with this not in a self-congratulatory way, but to illustrate how intertwined oppression is. I began with sexism, seeing it very truely active in my own white girl life. [...]
