I don’t know about you, but the winter’s a hard time for me. First, the holidays (stress and body-shaming, ack!) then January (stress and body-shaming, ack!) then February (stress and why-won’t-this-winter-end-already, ack!). I tend to go into a kind of web hibernation this time of year–I don’t blog nearly as much, not here or on [...]
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What this fat girl’s been up to
Posted by bigliberty on January 21, 2012
http://biglibertyblog.com/2012/01/21/what-this-fat-girls-been-up-to/
Invisiphilia, Part Six – Holidays
This is the sixth installment of my poem in several parts, “Invisiphilia: An Epic.” For an introduction to the piece, please read Part One. << Part Five Invisiphilia: An Epic ◊ ◊ ◊ PART 6: HOLIDAYS Christmas came, a riot of our happy memories. Brother got a camera, and I got some new CDs. Daddy [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 7, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/12/07/invisiphilia-part-six-holidays/
Fat Double Standards
Really quickly — because I’m actually supposed to be writing my novel right now — here’s a hilarious addition to the double standards in weight reporting. Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Could Make People Lose Weight According to EurekAlert, scientists looked at 506 people ranging from those with no memory problems to those with full-blown Alzheimer’s. They found [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 23, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/11/23/fat-double-standards/
Invisiphilia, Part Five – Self
This is the fifth installment of my poem in several parts, “Invisiphilia: An Epic.” For an introduction to the piece, please read Part One. Part Six >> << Part Four Invisiphilia: An Epic ◊ ◊ ◊ PART 5: SELF Not until you’re thin as Amber, lithe as Julia; not until you’re Michelle-skinny, graceful as Anna. [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 16, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/11/16/invisiphilia-part-five-self/
Quick Hit: Fat People Can’t Be Trusted
If you haven’t seen this video yet, WATCH IT NOW. Really. It’s awesome, I swear. Thin people dress in fat suits not to validate the fat experience, but to mock and eliminate it. Really, I don’t think there’s any other reason. If they’re bad-intentioned, it’s to mock, if they’re good-intentioned, it’s to suggest costuming and [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 15, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/11/15/quick-hit-fat-people-cant-be-trusted/
Show Your Fatty Papers
Recently I got mud on my boots in a popular feminist news blog. The topic was a new weight loss drug, and far be it for me to leave that shit alone. I mocked its promised 11% weight loss (in the short term, since that shit gives you kidney lesions and can’t be taken long [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 12, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/11/12/show-your-fatty-papers/
Invisiphilia: Part Four – Camp
This is the fourth installment of my poem in several parts, “Invisiphilia: An Epic.” For an introduction to the piece, please read Part One. << Part Three Part Five >> Invisiphilia: An Epic ◊ ◊ ◊ PART 4: CAMP I wonder what the other kids are doing on their break— Learning to count calories, shun [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 9, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/11/09/invisiphilia-part-four-camp/
Invisiphilia: Part Three – School
This is the third installment of my poem in several parts, “Invisiphilia: An Epic.” For an introduction to the piece, please read Part One. <<Part Two Part Four >> Invisiphilia: An Epic ◊ ◊ ◊ PART THREE: SCHOOL She is the fastest reader, and her math is years ahead— she sings, and plays, and draws, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on October 29, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/10/29/invisiphilia-part-three-school/
Invisiphilia: Part Two – Infancy
This is the second installment of my poem in several parts, “Invisiphilia: An Epic.” For an introduction to the piece, please read Part One. << Part One Part Three >> Invisiphilia: An Epic ◊ ◊ ◊ PART TWO: INFANCY They never told the neighbors that they cut your milk in half; drawn colored dots up [...]
Posted by bigliberty on October 29, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/10/29/invisiphilia-part-two-infancy/
Invisiphilia: Introduction, and Part One
Hi folks. Many of you know I’m a fiction writer and poet, but I haven’t posted much of either on this blog. However, I’ve been picking away at poem in several parts called “Invisiphilia: An Epic.” After sitting on the first few parts for a long time, I decided there’s no better way to get [...]
Posted by bigliberty on October 23, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/10/23/invisiphilia-introduction-and-part-one/
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