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Longreads: Edith Zimmerman: My Top 6 Longreads of... →
Edith Zimmerman is a writer and co-editor of The Hairpin.
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“All the Single Ladies,” Kate Bolick, The Atlantic
Kate’s story on the current state of marriage, and men, and women, is sad and happy and fascinating, and just generally makes me want to give her a high-five and roll cigarettes with her, even though neither of us smoke.
“Ask an Abortion Provider,” Dolores P., The...
December 2011
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Anonymous asked: Hey! Your blog is excellent. Keep up the good artist / freedom fighter work! Also your fatty self is super-gorgeous!
WatchVlog - I believe in the importance of body love and Fat Activism and I want to thank the Tumblr FA community for their amazing presence thus far on this subject! I should just call my Vlogs Post-Shower Rants because that’s kind of what they always are. Happy Festivus for the rest of us….
The “Promoting Obesity” Myth →
fresafresca:
“Promoting a body size is what got us into this mess in the first place. I think that being thin might be the most aggressively promoted idea of my lifetime and while it hasn’t made everyone thin (in fact if you believe the statistics the majority of people are not thin), it has insidiously created a second class of citizens. The (completely wrong) idea that the only path to...
November 2011
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WatchVlog - Dec 29 - Leaving on a jet plane
an indulgent disaster of epic proportions: Rape Is... →
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I have a problem with Donald Glover. It revolves around that whole rape-as-a-punchline thing he does. I’m sure even as I type this that next to no one will give a shit and it’ll ultimately be swept under the rug as the Donald Glover Dick-Sucking Bandwagon rolls on by, but it legitimately bothers me. It’s not even like it’s a one-time thing with him. It that were the case, I...
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I’m getting ready to leave. It’s all done, here. Sitting on suitcases packed with photographs, unsent letters and hospital bedsheets. The bank knows where to find my credit card. I’m getting ready to fall in love. Remember the wreckage; larger than life, we outgrew each other. I thought my hands had lost grip- Can I hold on to you?
I’m getting ready for something big. ...
“I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me...”
– Andrea Gibson
WatchVlog - Nov 6, 2011 - Impending Unemployment
October 2011
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WatchI know I am a bit behind on this internet find, but holy crap this moved me. If you have 15 or so minutes to spare, please watch this TED talk.
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk...
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this started out as a love letter
My fat body does not have curves; it has speedbumps.
I am not your picturesque fatty as they say because my stretchmarks climb my stomach like vines on a tree watered by blood. My texture isn’t fluffy, as you might prefer it be. My body is rough - built like an armory; long ago, it is covered in forests of stories.
My face naturally glows, but not like a blushing bride. Rather; hungry,...
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BeachSounds: Assurance →
crashinglybeautiful:
You will never be alone, you hear so deep a sound when autumn comes. Yellow pulls across the hills and thrums, or in the silence after lightning before it says its names — and then the clouds’ wide-mouthed apologies. You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone. Rain will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon, long aisles — you never heard so deep a sound, moss on rock, and...
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WatchThe Revolution Will be Livestreamed.
Global Revolution brings you live stream video coverage from independent journalists on the ground at nonviolent protests around the world. The team includes members of Mobile Broadcast News, Glassbead Collective, Twin Cities Indymedia and the alt.media ninjas that brought you Terrorizing Dissent and Democracy 101 documentaries. Currently broadcasting...
September 2011
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Nice Guy Syndrome
I’ve been thinking a lot about this awesome thing called Nice Guy Syndrome and how it’s particularly rampant on the interwebs - then I stumbled (like four months late) on Feminism 101’s wonderful words on it.
See, maybe the title is misleading at first. The point, though, is, that the men targeted by this concept aren’t actually nice. What happens is, boy likes girl. Girl...
August 2011
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“Having privilege isn’t something you can usually change, but that’s okay,...”
– Sindeloke, on Privilege
WatchVlog Aug 24 - from directly under a cat
I’ve been asked to speak at the Calgary SlutWalk this weekend and this is my speech. I’m nervous and excited to tell this story. Let me know your comments! I will be ending my speech with Alix Olsen’s poem Warriors. I was inspired by that circulating transcript from the Boston SlutWalk but wanted to speak a lot more about rape culture than the word “slut”
My name...
So radical- that Post-It™ sized lie. Tightly wrapped promises a gift from a lover- the one that broke her heart.
Freedom is letting go she said in 140 characters (or less) a tiny wisdom, a winter worry- forever gone.
I haven’t been able to write, I told her hands. I hoped they’d be ready with words in them.
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Gloria Steinem: ‘This generation of women is more...
by Alex Strachan, The National Post - Aug 10, 2011 …
Isn’t it ironic, Steinem was asked, that what she fought so hard for has been rejected by the generation that came later?
Steinem was candid in her reply, and perhaps surprising.
“No,” she said simply. “This generation of young women is actually much more feminist than we ever were. If you look at the public opinion polls, they’re...
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Yay! The podcast is up! Britt and I were on CJSW...
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WatchSo, this is a video of me performing “Grand Canyon” by Ani DiFranco. I might be reading this at the Calgary Dyke March in a month or so, and also tonight I just felt like the best way to get out my frustrations with myself and the world is to read poems with gusto and sing angry lady music with all my heart.
Typical Sunday!
July 2011
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Someone posted this lovely piece as a link on Tumblr and I opened it in a new window, kept scrolling through pages of Tumbliciousness and then realized I know don’t know who to credit for showing me this. Anyway. I wish I could’ve just bolded this whole damn thing.
Why the World Needs Fat Acceptance by Geez Magazine (via Two Whole Cakes)
When I was in the sixth grade, there was a...
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Trans Woman Wins "Breast Summer Ever" Contest!
For those of you who voted for Avery - the trans contestant in the “Breast Summer Ever” contest, you should know that she won- by a 77% landslide!
“In Canada, I am not given any health care for being transgendered and I have to pay out of my own pocket for these procedures”, Avery told AMP Radio. “Having breasts would help complete me as a person.”
Buzz...
Daughter
I’ll teach my daughter to bang on anything that makes a beat She’ll shake-a-boom, She’ll quake a room She’ll paint her cheeks warrior-style, then smile beguile you, turn you inside out ‘till your guts plead guilty. She’ll be built like a truck, built to work you down as she works herself up She’ll make holes in the streets in her ten inch spike heels, in combat boots, stilts, on...
RIOTS NOT DIETS →
sexxxisbeautiful:
RIOTS NOT FUCKING DIETS.
RIOTS. NOT DIETS.
I don’t give a fucking fuck that my BMI says I’m overweight or you think its better for MY health to lose weight BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK DO DIETS EVEN EXIST? I have not once in my life seen or heard of an advertisement for a diet talking about how much happier the person is now that they are active and healthy (because obviously...
