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Two Crowdfunding Projects I think you should support (if you’re able)
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We’re not public property
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A little foreknowledge can save you a lot of heartache…
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A World Without Fat People
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Amoeba Kat Style
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How not to be a dick to your friend/loved one/relative with eating disorders
Content warning: disordered eating, fatphobia, misogynistic language, description of child abuse Note: this is written based on my own personal experience with relatives, friends, loved ones, and my eating disorders. Other people may have different eating disorders and different experiences, and my post is in now way trying to speak for them. It’s just me…
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I didn’t use to think I was pretty; or, In defense of the selfie
If you spend any time on the internet you know that the word selfie often takes on connotations that are disparaging. Only self-centred hipsters do that, people might say, or Selfies are for women/girls who are attention-whores. (And yes, women are always “attention-whores”; they are never simply self-centred. Hooray sexist gendered language!) And perhaps the…
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[quote of the day] September 5th, 2013
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Amoeba Cat and the Ogre go on a road trip (and see some kittens; also — Reading Rainbow)
[content warning: mention of disordered eating and fatphobia] This past weekend was the BC Day long weekend (I believe the first Monday in August is the long weekend across Canada, with Province-specific holidays; I know it was Alberta Heritage Day as well as BC Day, f’ex), so I got to spend four days at the…