I like not having to strive for anything regarding my body other than basic maintenance in the hopes of keeping it running a little longer. I like the freedom to ignore even that. When it’s only us in the room, only fat women, someone might quietly say, like a guilty confession: “I’m trying really hard […]
Let’s see who we are and like what we see. Enough already. I love glossy women’s magazines. I’ve always loved clothes, and shoes, and beautiful objects beautifully shot. Of course, as a teenager growing up with an artificial leg, I never saw my body reflected in magazines like Sassy or Seventeen, but at the time […]
In the collective imagination of American culture, if a fat person works out, it’s because she’s trying to become a thin person. And I’m not. Here’s my big secret: I work out five days a week. Not that shocking, right? Are you waiting for me to get to the scandalous part, like where I steal […]
I don’t believe a feminist world view requires me to unsubscribe from that which is feminine. I am a feminist (a feisty one) and a pole dancer (a sassy one). I don’t consider these aspects of self to be in conflict. For the sake of context, I am by no stretch a feminist scholar. Feminism […]
