Today’s Guest Hoyden is Frances, from the fat acceptance advocacy blog Corpulent.
Going to get something as simple as a check-up, a consultation or a pap smear can be a hugely stressful event for a fat person. However, there are good health care professionals out there. There are doctors that will treat a fat person without demonising their fat body. But it’s hard to know where to look.
In light of this, I’ve set up the All Bodies Directory…
Her responses to questions about the Allan Jones Ju-Liar episode, the outrage regarding carbon pricing and the latest round of Rudd being out of control claims were calm yet sharp and where possible good-humoured without being flippant.
Then came the Julian Assange video question. Is it really the place of the national broadcaster to set up an ambush effort that network tabloid current affairs programs would be dubious about?
This week’s a busy week! Have another linkfest.
Since I just finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice, who else can I start with but Lizzy and Darcy?
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. Today it’s a roundup of other people’s linkfests. What did we all miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
Image credit here. The trailer where an 11 year old girl was assaulted. Victim-blaming. No-one does it better than a court reporter, it seems. In this case we’re talking about allegations involving a group of eighteen men and teenage boys… Read More ›
Today’s otter was captured on film by Yasaiman at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
Authorities are projecting around 1000 deaths. I don’t think any of our regular commenters live in Japan, nor anywhere in the northern Pacific likely to be tsunami-affected, but I’m sure we must have lurkers there. I wish you all safe. Please use this as an open thread on any news.
I am in the process of co-founding a non-profit called the Ada Initiative, which is seeking funding to undertake advocacy for women. The Ada Initiative is focused on women in open technology and culture generally, which includes online activists, members of fandom, remixers, open source hackers and many others If you are interested, take our census or ask questions here.
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