who else out there, part 2
- i love it that the cnet news piece on the attempted censorship of burn actually links directly to the che cafe and FARC itself. take that u.c. buttferbrains admins!
- last month, democracy now had a segment in which feminist activists debated the issue of the campaign to save Amina Lawal and the riots surrounding the miss world pagent in nigera. for sure worth a listen, but be forewarned that there’s some infuriating moments with the middle-class white women berating the women of color for their misdirection. ug.
- bummer. girlpunk has “exceeded their bandwidth” and is serving an error page. check for updates.
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via grrl.com, a collection of dog nose pics. and while her blog is linked on the blogbar, i want to also check out her music reviews and reading list. |
- this reading list will come in handy when our study/action group needs more feminist lit.
- i didn’t know that heart disease killed more women than all cancers combined. i learned that cuz the editor of uppity women is struggling with heart disease and trying to find someone to keep the magazine up and running. back issues are there on the main page. check it.
- those energetic young fellows from el cerrito are up over 103,000 aol cds! give ‘em a hand and send yours in today.
December 30th, 2002 at 3:52 pm
so here’s the thang -
there’s all this momentum in the queergrrrl / lesbian /feminist community about fat acceptance, not being “sizeist”, rejoicing in fat …
the feminist, egalitarian part of me supports this, especially the part that wants to hurl when i see Vogue or Cosmo on trips to Phreddy’s, or when i see teenage girls in the neighborhood getting “skinny lattes” and bemoaning an ounce of fat gained.
but then there’s the part of me that wonders if maybe jesse helms isn’t somehow behind the fat acceptance movement in some way. lesbians are troublemakers, after all - let’s kill ‘em off with cancers and heart disease. let’s give them reason to have a quadruple bypass (with commensurate costs of treatment and diminished earning capacity, or diminished capacity to organize) by age 42.
i tell ya - i get depressed going to women’s events when i see so many beautiful mentally strong women and think that so many of them won’t be around in 40 years - or 20, even. i want to do a LunaTours trip in 2003, but most of the women i know can’t ride a bike across the neighborhood, much less 30-40 miles per day for several days. and i tend to not bring up the fact that i belong to a gym and work out several times per week, ‘cuz i’ve been told by more than one friend that just knowing that i’m doing that “makes them feel bad”.
this much guilt and self-loathing just makes me think that the Right has to be behind it somewhere. they’ve just gotta be there. encourage us to be unhealthy, and then drown us in our own guilt over it.
answers? how to say “yes, you’re beautiful - and you’re likely to die young.”?