So today is Love Your Body Day according to the National Organization for Women's NOW Foundation, an endeavor I fully support. As a believer in Size Acceptance and Health at Every Size, I want to make every day "Love Your Body Day," for everyone. But I notice things. Things like the fact that there are no fat bodies represented in...[ read more ]
So, the Huffington Post has reported that PayScale.com has announced the 13 worst-paid college majors (in a report that plebes like me apparently can't access), and Child and Family Studies came in first. (Warning: the HuffPo link is one of those annoying slide shows.) Which may have left a lot of readers wondering, who majors in that? Although students who...[ read more ]
At our 2011 AAMFT talk, I used a few comics from one of my favorite web cartoonists, Eyeteeth of Small Peculiar. She is working on a cartoon-based book about Walter Freeman, the infamous lobotomist, and has an interest in the history of mental health treatments. I particularly enjoy her occasional series "Outdated Psych Textbooks," and I included a few of...[ read more ]
My friend Hanne Blank is an author and scholar with far-reaching interests and tastes. She has written a history of virginity, and has a history of heterosexuality coming out in early 2012, but she has also written and edited books of erotica. Rumor has it that she may be working on a project about exercising while fat, among other tidbits....[ read more ]
By editing out a couple of video clips (the "Always My Son" video I linked to here, and a clip from the excellent documentary "Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She" - the relevant clip seems to be up on YouTube here) that we didn't actually get to in our talk, I was able to make the PowerPoint fit Word Press...[ read more ]
