Body Politics

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn’t handle people talking about how fat I was.
~Stevie Nicks

I am a huge fan of fairytales.  I have always always loved fairytales.  In 3rd grade when we got a chance to go to the library I would sit with my nose buried in a Grimm’s book.
Penelope is a modern fairytale with a positive twist.  There is some beer drinking and some other stuff that [...]

Vaginal rejuvenation, also called “designer vaginoplasty,” refers to any of several new cosmetic surgical procedures being promoted as ways to enhance appearance in the genital area or to tighten tissues that have lost tone due to childbirth or aging. It has been popularized on television and in other media, often reflecting insecurities some women have [...]

In this youth-obsessed culture stretch marks are an undesirable.  Do I love my stretch marks?  Honestly?  No, not really.  Do I hate myself for having them? No. And that’s the key.
I used to hate my stretchmarks.  I used to to obsess about ways to get rid of them and chastise myself for having not done [...]

I found this artist’s  site today with lots of lovely torsos.  The site and especially the photos are slow to load, fyi.
Beautiful Women Project

I was bouncing around the internet yesterday looking for something interesting to post here today.
I came across two sites that seem to be run by the same person.  One is myfatspouse.com and the other is unfatblog.wordpress.com.
After reading some of the posts a question formed in my mind.  The myfatspouse site tagline is:
                             It Is [...]

(photo of me by William Hardy)
Sometimes I think people see me as trying to convince everybody that all sexy images of women are bad and that everybody should think fat women are sexy.  I know I must come across as militant or extreme at times.  I think that passion for my causes comes from pain [...]

32 Flavors
by Ani Difranco
squint your eyes and look closer
I’m not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
and I’m beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you’re going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said
both my [...]