By Sonya Krzywoszyja on 20 May 2012
I know scores of people are not comfortable with describing themselves or other people as fat. I understand why – fat is still considered a bad word. “But I don’t see you as fat!” isn’t mean to be a compliment so much as a rejection of the way society ascribes and describes fat on people. [...]
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By lip magazine on 16 May 2012
I was the fat kid. The token ‘Fatty Boomba’ at primary school. I relished tucking into a meal more than an excavation of the sandpit. I avoided the monkey bars because lifting my weight was a struggle. I was always the first chosen for trivia, yet the last for a game of kickball. Although aesthetically, [...]
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By Sonya Krzywoszyja on 10 May 2012
I love Tumblr for many reasons. It has opened me up to new worlds, educated me on concepts I previously had difficulty understanding or not even thought about at all, and introduced me to many new friends. But, like every form of social media, it can have its dark side. I’m mostly in my little [...]
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By Sonya Krzywoszyja on 21 April 2012
Today my father told me he wanted to walk to our local café for coffee. We’ve both been walking a lot more recently because my parents have downsized to one car and, as my mum is still working, she has the car the vast majority of the time. I thought it would take the both [...]
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By Sonya Krzywoszyja on 19 April 2012
My mother went to the doctor once when she had a really bad headache. The first thing he said to her, brusquely, was “You need to lose weight. You’re too large. You’re going to die.” She told me later she was so shocked at the statement that she doesn’t even remember what he prescribed for [...]
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By Sonya Krzywoszyja on 7 April 2012
Bingo wings, tuckshop lady, truck drivers. Fat arms. I can remember the first time I was made aware that apparently fat chicks should cover up their arms. It was in the last year of primary school and the women who worked at the tuckshop had the unfortunate aforementioned nicknames, usually with ‘arms’ added on to [...]
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By Sonya Krzywoszyja on 1 April 2012
Australian comedian, Wendy Harmer has been approached (more than once) by diet giant Jenny Craig to star in their campaigns. This made her embarrassed and not a little offended. What made her feel even worse though, was the news that a Jenny Craig representative was invited (as part of a group of other invitees) to [...]
Posted in Featured, Opinion | Tagged diets, eating disorders, fat, feminism, high school, jenny craig, marketing, wendy harmer |
By Sonya Krzywoszyja on 24 March 2012
The other day I was browsing Tumblr when I noticed a gif from a movie that had been re-blogged by a friend of mine. The gif was from The Sitter and included the star, Jonah Hill, and the woman playing his girlfriend (or, really, the woman he wants to be his girlfriend), Ari Gaynor. The [...]
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By Erin Stewart on 20 March 2012
As a movement, and speaking in very general terms, feminism has been guilty of marginalising the voices of other people. While it has been rejected on ignorant grounds which rely on stereotypes (feminists are hairy, scary people who hate men and burn undergarments), it has also been quite fairly rejected on the grounds that it [...]
Posted in Featured, Opinion | Tagged ableism, Class, Culture, diversity, fat, fatphobia, feminism, gender, homophobia, Inclusion, Intersectionality, Privilege, race, racism, sexism, sexuality, Trans, women's issues |
pregnant women’s bodies aren’t public property
By Sonya Krzywoszyja on 29 April 2012
Women face a lot of pressure, from themselves, from friends, from family, even from outside sources. And none seems more harsh and critical than when a woman is pregnant. Recently, a friend who just became pregnant went to her in-laws with her husband and the first thing the mother-in-law said to her? “Wow, you’re fat!” [...]
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