My Plate Does Not Have to Be the Same as Your Plate by Kath at Fat Heffalump [note for discussion of food policing] — “I’m really struggling to understand why people can’t see that what other people eat is none of their business, and what they choose to eat doesn’t need to be moralised or proselytised as though it’s the only way to eat.”
Bisexual Women Almost Twice As Likely To Be Abused As Straight Women [notes for sexual assault, domestic abuse] — “The first nationwide study to break down domestic violence rates by self-identified sexual orientation has found that lesbian and bisexual women are at higher risk than straight women, with bisexual women facing especially high rates.” (Found via Feministing.)
I Don’t Care If You’re Healthy by Sarah at Radically Visible [notes for discussion of ableism and fat bias] — “A person’s right to an enjoyable life, to be treated with respect and to have access to all the things I want fat people to have access to, such as quality medical care and clothes that fit, is not predicated on how healthy they are.” (Found via Kath at Fat Heffalump.)
Closed for business at Exile from Hysteria — “The assistant cheerfully noted my surgery plans somewhere in my file, then pulled her rolling chair in close…. ‘Ya know, I’d love to get a hysterectomy,’ she said. ‘I’m so tired of getting my period. I mean, I’ve already had my babies, so what’s the point?’”
Pretty by G at Running While Fat — “Then I got to thinking about the complicated relationship I have with ‘pretty’, and how pissed I get that pretty is the best and most desirable thing to be.”
