Fat Chicks Rule

Fat Chicks in the News

My holistic friend sent this: Well-Rounded Mama It's a great blog for those who are pregnant, intent to be or are just plain outraged at the discrimination against fat pregnant women (i.e. higher rate of c-section and inducing.)

Not thrilled with the headline or the doctor who totes the silly lose only 15 pounds and stop drinking soda, you fat pig, and you'll be fine.  But the video and article feature NY NAAFA chair Sandy Schafffer and Plus Size fitness instructors Rochelle Rice toting exercise for the sake of it and not for weight loss.

The wonderful Joy Nash has put out another Fat Rant. It's a great tool to practice snappy comebacks.

Stacy Bias introduces the Fat Experience Project A place to post your story of being fat. I'm hoping to add myself as soon as I can find five seconds.

For those in the LA area, make sure you attend the combined ASDAH/NAAFA Unfortunately I can't attend, so those who are going, I am very jealous.

Review time

In case people didn't know if you send me your book, I will read and review it here.  It just has to be mostly fat or size positive.

Which gets me to todays post namely a book that was sent to me called "This is who I am" a book of nude photographs of different women (ages, ethnicities etc) with very different bodies and narratives in their words about their bodies.  The book is a mix of all sizes including very large women and very skinny women and women in between.

For the most part, the book is beautiful.  No matter what the "flaw" the model might have, the photographer Roseanne Olsen made them beautiful.

The book itself isn't entirely fat positive as many of the fat women aren't happy with their appearance and many "normal" women feel they could lose a few pounds and have lost a few  pounds.  However I am willing to forgive this as the narratives are brutally honest about how women feel about their bodies.  Some of the more positive models, to name a few (as their were many) were: Jenell who grew up fat and seem to put feelings for that aside when she got pregnan; Nisi who suffers from Fibromyalgia and learned to celebrate her body; Faye a beautiful tattooed woman who is a domestic violence survivor; and Angela who finally learned to love her curves.

Despite some flaws, this book is beautiful to look at and inspiring.  It will help anyone feel better about their bodies. (In fact I was thought maybe I might want to do a nude picture one day) .

I would also recommend getting Women En Large, a beautiful book of nude photos only of fat women.  I also know that Leonard Nimoy did a fabulous book of nude fat women. Although I haven't read it yet (yes, bad Lara.)

I always believe that it is important to surround your self with positive things that make you feel good about yourself. Whether it be art, books, music. 

Birthday and spring cleaning

Today's my birthday (I'm 37 and no, I don't have one foot in the grave) so I've decided to do quick post cleaning out my blog ideas folders.  So here are some interesting stories in the news:

Reclaiming the word fat. I prefer to be called fat then obese any day.

Fat Pride World Wide takes the fat acceptance movement.

CAMPOS : A $10,000 'obesity' challenge.  Hero Paul Campos bets 10,000 that obesity rates might still go up but so will life expectancies.

Women, Voting and Plus Size Issues

no post sort of

I'm posting from my blackberry (yes I'm that cool) while I'm heading back from Amish country. I had a great time and one of the reasons was that buffets in the area are amazing. I was able to enjoy the food for a change without worrying how many calories. Life is too short not to enjoy good food regardless of what size you are. I'm on vacation things like numbers shouldn't matter.

It isn't an Epidemic, you can stop making fun of us.

Wow, the obesity epidemic in Australia has been exaggerated.  That only low-income children have raising rates. (Which makes it about 1 in 10 poor boys and .5 in 10 poor girls).  Who da thought?  Guess what? It's been exaggerated in the States and Great Britain (but not in Samoa).

Did you know that thin people can get diabetes?  And here I was thinking all fat people had diabetes and all thin people are super healthy.

Recently a woman went to a feminist sci-fi con and thought it would be cool to take pictures of fat, disabled and trans women, make fun of them and cover their faces with bad smiley faces.  Though the woman pulled most of what she wrote, some parts of it remained (just remember if you publish on the Internet, it never never goes away).  I'm sure this woman is dying of embarrassment and will forever be a pariah at conventions, which is fine with me.

But this got into the discussion again over headless fatties.  As you know my book art has a headless fatty but instead of it being unflattering, she is gorgeous and a reclaim over the detriment that society has placed on fat bodies.  Rachel over at the F word talks about reclaiming our heads.

So here's mine.  I thought it would look good with mouse ears.   I also must show off my man.