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, [...]
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Invisiphilia: Part Three – School
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/
On What Isn’t Ground-Breaking
A fat person, or former fat person, buying into the ‘healthy weight’ mysticism is not ground-breaking. In fact? It’s downright mainstream. A fat person, or former fat person, blaming themselves for how our culture (mis)treats fat people and (mis)characterizes the fat experience is not ground-breaking. We are (mis)fits, after all, in that we are outliers, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on August 9, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/08/09/on-what-isnt-ground-breaking/
The Fucking Awesome Truth
Go read this fucking awesome post by Joanna at Dead of Winter: The Truth is Radical It will blow your fucking socks off. It’s so old-school FA, I’m all a-quiver like it’s 2007 again. Dammit, I miss Junkfood Science! Some candy: Instead of feeling liberated with the knowledge that I was not a failure or [...]
Posted by bigliberty on July 31, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/07/31/the-fucking-awesome-truth/
Shaking the Foundations of Conventional Beauty
This morning Kath at Fat Heffalump had yet another brilliant post about the Freedman/Cannold debacle. If you aren’t familiar with the rights of the debacle, they are, in a nutshell: Freedman says some not-so-nice things about fat people and fatness on Twitter. Specifically, Dr Samantha Thomas broke an ironic screenshot of Freedman saying, “If you [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 31, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/03/31/shaking-the-foundations-of-conventional-beauty/
Must-read: MadameThursday’s “Body policing…”
Everyone who’s ever even just brushed against fat acceptance needs to read this post: MadameThursday: “Body policing and fat hate are related, but they are not the same“ My favorite bit (though it’s hard to choose): When you go to apply to a job, the decks will be stacked against you. You will get laughed [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 20, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/03/20/must-read-madamethursdays-body-policing/
Update from the Wintry North
Hi, all. First of all, I apologize for my scarcity. A lot’s been going on in Big Liberty-land, some of it good, some of it not-so-good, and lots with potential to go either way. I don’t usually blog about personals, but fat acceptance has been getting awfully personal for me, lately. It’s been on display [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 8, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/03/08/update-from-the-wintry-north/
We Do Not Revel In Fat
We do not revel in fat. We do not choose the physical difficulty, social ostracism, and too-small world as ends in themselves. We do not revel in fat. We are not gleeful when the numbers on the scale get bigger. We do not hide skinny photos in shame, evidence of an awkward era of less-than-perfection. [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 9, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/01/09/we-do-not-revel-in-fat/
A Little Fat Sociology
Have you seen Google Books Ngram Viewer yet? They are awesome. Play with them right away. That is, after you read this post, of course. The basics – Google Books Ngram Viewer searches for keywords in Google Books from way back to 2008. You can search for multiple keywords (up to four worked best for [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 20, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/12/20/a-little-fat-sociology/
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