The Foxy Merkins (2014, dir. Madeleine Olnek)

This is super exciting for a few reasons.  A fat, gender nonconforming protagonist!  A film written, directed by, and starring queer women!  A film that passes the Bechdel Test so hard that it would fail the Bechdel Test if applied to its male characters! And perhaps the most exciting part– at least, for me, but it’s my blog […]

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Speaking With My Sisters

Yesterday I had the honor and privilege of speaking as a panelist at Digital Hollywood on a panel hosted by the Alliance for Women in Media.  It was a part of a track of women’s programming hosted by the Alliance along with Women In Film, Women Network, and Girls In Tech Los Angeles.  Throughout the […]

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The Fallacy of “If You Really Liked Yourself…”

This is sort of a “part 2,” based on a number of replies that I got from yesterday’s blog about “Hate the Fat, Love the Fatty”  Stop me if you’ve heard this one – someone is talking about, or doing activism against, the stigmatizing/bullying/shaming/oppression that they are experiencing. For our example today let’s use a random […]

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Seventh Annual Turkey Awards: Astronomical Cesarean Rates in Women of Size

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Wednesday Fa(t)shion Inspirations, 4/29/15

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Blog Stuff: Let’s Talk Photography

I mentioned on Twitter the other day that I was working on some photos, and that I would be putting up pictures that were taken with my phone and with my Nikon. I was then asked if I could tell the difference between the pictures, and which was better. Honestly? Both are awesome. I got […]

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Hate the Fat Love the Fatty?

I’ve been coming across this sentiment more and more often. It’s a play on the “hate the sin, love the sinner.” trope from Christianity. The idea being that people who don’t like part of who we are can simply, for their convenience, consider that part to be separate from us and insist that it’s fine that […]

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