December 2011
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Hey! I’m sure you all noticed, but I don’t update this blog anymore, I was mainly using it to collect images for my senior thesis so I could show my class inspirational images/text without sorting through a bunch of dumb gif posts first. The good news is, if you are interested in me as a person/don’t mind following a personal blog - you can follow me over at...
June 2011
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Oh, but this is not a matter of “glorifying” obesity. Glorifying obesity would...
– http://www.fatshionista.com/
Existing is not glorifying. Although glorifying fat people would be pretty awesome too.
(via drst)
May 2011
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The world is not full of Attractive People and Unattractive People. It’s full of...
– Kate Harding (via Bon-Bon)
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Fat women are expected to dress in ways that are ostensibly minimizing but that,...
– Marianne Kirby at The Rotund, I Spy With My Fat Eye; On Seeing And Being Seen
Sometimes I think…Marianne is somehow seeing into my brain and posting it on the internet. I mean that in a good way. I’m just so…this is me, too.
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Some of these doctors felt justified in openly proclaiming that they refuse to...
– Real Quick: The chicken and the egg « Two Whole Cakes (via pastthestorm)
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I take my belly in my hands. It’s warm. My fingers feel cool, but quickly warm,...
– Susan Stinson, “Belly Song” (via riotsnotdiets)e
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Apologies should be saved for worthy occasions, like hurting someone’s feelings...
– Beth Ditto (via molix)
Words I ought to live by.
(via uphonies)
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Curvy women are real women. Skinny women are real women. Women who have had boob...
– Hugo Schwyze (via polyphonicbellybutton)
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April 2011
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“At some point in your adult life, you’ve probably walked into a party and felt...
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Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby
If I was Oprah I would buy 10 billion copies of this book (Screw Inner Beauty/Lessons from the Fatosphere) and distribute them everywhere.
(via definatalie)
Automatic reblog. :)
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You get poked and prodded by complete strangers and nobody will tell you a...
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The Biggest Loser Finalist Kai Hibbard (Interview)
I really have always hated The Biggest Loser, and here is just another quote that reinforces how horrible it is.
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Even if all fat people are the way they are due to their bad choices, even if...
– Frances at Corpulent (via killerzebras)
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Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus : NPR →
The person who dreamed up the BMI said explicitly that it could not and should not be used to indicate the level of fatness in an individual.
It is scientifically nonsensical.
It is physiologically wrong.
It gets the logic wrong
It’s bad statistics.
It is lying by scientific authority.
It suggests there are distinct categories of underweight, ideal, overweight and obese, with sharp...
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