Fat and Health.
Jezebel posted today on a perennial favorite among feminist bloggers: the BMI. This was prompted by a doctor in the New York Times talking about how useless a measure it is for personal health. Here’s my response: of course it is. It’s an index. This is what indexes do, they aggregate individual pieces of information [...]
...read moreWill the Stupak amendment punish women who miscarry?
A must-read piece, and a good reminder that the kinds of black-and-white lines we draw around the human body, reproduction and health are never so clear.
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Aging Is (Not) Unnatural
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross-posted to Body Impolitic. All photographs by Laurie Toby Edison. Some photos below may not be okay for office viewing. After our introductory post here last week, Daisy Deadhead asked if we wrote about age as a body image issue, since we hadn’t happened to mention it in that post. Great [...]
...read moreDisabled Character: Able-Bodied (Emaciated) Actresses Only, Please
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross Blogged on Body Impolitic We had our attention brought to this casting call for Stargate: Universe, a Stargate franchise TV show due to debut in October of this year as a movie, and then a regular TV show on the Syfy channel. [ELEANOR PERRY] (35-40) and quite attractive. A brilliant [...]
...read moreDisability Culture: Defining Our Lives
In the comments of another post that I wrote a few days ago, a few people questioned the idea that Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer is incurable but not terminal. Different authorities were cited and used as the basis for how the commenters defined what conditions should rightly be called “terminal”. Some appealed to legal definitions of [...]
...read moreBodily Autonomy:Jehovah’s Witness Teens and Blood Transfusions
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about bodily autonomy. It seems to me that when feminists discuss this issue it is usually with regards to reproductive justice. However, I’ve got something different in mind right now and I’m hoping that others could give me some input on it. As a member of disability [...]
...read moreSayonara, Fat Friends
Having fat friends will make you fatter. But of course you wouldn’t want to dump your friends just for being fat — that would be shallow. Instead, you should pick friends who are thin because that’s good for you and your fat friends: You don’t want to lose a friend who becomes obese, Dr. Christakis [...]
...read moreFriday Cat Blogging – The Old Skool Edition
Doug, Pablo, And by popular request, Merle. And poor Sasha, She doesn’t feel well. She’s lost quite a bit of weight and seems as though she’s on the verge of something sinister. We have a feeling the adoption agency lied to us about her health and age and that she will require more help in [...]
...read moreMuseum of Menstruation
My dear friend Kate Goldwater of AuH2o fame has some of her creative works — paintings with her menstrual blood — up in the online Museum of Menstruation and Women’s Health. Check out her work, and the rest of the museum.
...read moreThose Who Might Scorn It Are Invited To Kiss It
It looks like Nike is going the way of the Dove ads, even their new Nike Women website. Good? Bad? I defer to Jill. At least Nike is selling a brand of health (if you can overlook the sweatshop labor). via the comments at Twisty’s UPDATE Chuck weighs in with an excellent new slogan: Because [...]
...read moreThe Break
As I need to recommit my time to my health, home and schoolwork, I’m taking about a week from blogging to get things in order. I have a few great guestbloggers signed up and ready to go, so stick around and enjoy their work. Adios.
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