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By Cherry Woodburn on January 3, 2012
The following is a guest post by Kath Read, who blogs at Fat Heffalump – Living With Fatititude. I love her writing and have learned a lot from her, including some fat stereotypes of my own. It’s been very humbling and very exciting to have my thinking expanded. This is a story, her story, of [...]
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Posted in Getting Unstuck, Perceptions & Paradigms | Tagged fat acceptance, fat activism, fat embodiment, fat people stereotypes, fatheffalump, Kath Read, our "stories" can become our reality, paradigm shifts about body image, the stories we tell ourselves |
By Cherry Woodburn on July 26, 2010
Palpable emotions in 140 characters or less: I say I am fat to own it, w/o shame & to destigmatize a word that has been turned into an undeserved insult it takes a certain kind of defensive readiness to be fat in the world and not personalize all that hate. Very difficult. These tweets were [...]
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Posted in Perceptions & Paradigms | Tagged fat, fat acceptance, fat activism, Gina Kolata, Kate Harding, obesity and health, Rethnking Thin, Shapely Prose, twitter |
By Cherry Woodburn on July 26, 2010
Palpable emotions in 140 characters or less: I say I am fat to own it, w/o shame & to destigmatize a word that has been turned into an undeserved insult it takes a certain kind of defensive readiness to be fat in the world and not personalize all that hate. Very difficult. These tweets were [...]
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Posted in Perceptions & Paradigms | Tagged fat, fat acceptance, fat activism, Gina Kolata, Kate Harding, obesity and health, Rethnking Thin, Shapely Prose, twitter |