Fa(t)shion
–Donut-themed jewelry? YES.
-I’ve found a whole bunch of new fatshion blogs to follow through this slideshow from Refinery29 and the Curvy Fashionista’s weekly blogger spotlight.
-Chastity is #boycottingTarget over their continued failure to include plus sizes in their designer collaborations. I’m totally in–I’m still sad that the Prabal Gurung collaboration only went up to a size 16.
-I love Susie Bubble’s pictures from a fashion extravaganza in Paris. Neon goth and toy punk should definitely be my new aesthetics. (Actually, a lot of what I wore in high school could have been described as “toy punk”–I should bring that look back.)
-Ari of Advanced Style rounds up his top ten favorite senior style Instagram accounts.
-I love the four party looks that Nancy put together based on SimplyBe dresses.
-Major fashion inspiration: these 60 colorful wedding dresses and these 1920s-themed wedding details.
-Torontonians, check out this upcoming clothing swap.
Fat Acceptance
–How being queer helped me learn to love my fat body.
-Marianne Kirby, aka The Rotund, is blogging again!
–Dear Abby’s epic fail.
-A Facebook group for fat men.
–Making room for us.
Israel/Palestine
–How the war in Gaza could have been avoided. This all makes me so heartsick.
–In trepidatious whispers: speaking my solidarity with Palestine.
–Giving birth under bombardment.
–Against the pinkwashing of Israel: why supporting Palestinians is a queer and feminist issue.
–The greenhouse propaganda: how Gazan history is being rewritten to dehumanize Palestinians.
–Gaza war: it’s about keeping the Palestinians under control.
–Water disaster hits every single person in Gaza. (See also: Water is a human right, but who is considered a human being?)
–The “telegenically dead”: why Israel and its supporters fear Gaza’s dead. Continue reading
