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For as long as we've been alive we have not planned before writing stuff down.

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really enjoying this series

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Fatness and Intersectionality Books

list by: Pratt Institute Library's

Thickening Fat by May Friedman (Editor); Carla Rice (Editor); Jen Rinaldi (Editor) ISBN: 9780429507540 Publication Date: 2019-08-30 Moving beyond an analysis of fat oppression as singular, this book aims to unpack the volatility of fat—the mutability of fat embodiments as they correlate with other embodied subjectivities, and the threshold where fat begins to be reviled, celebrated, or amended.

Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun L. Harrison; Kiese Laymon (Foreword by) ISBN: 9781623175979 Publication Date: 2021-08-10 Taking on desirability politics, the limitations of gender, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality, and the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “fat is bad,” and destroying the world as we know it, so the Black fat can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation.

Queering Fat Embodiment by Samantha Murray; Cat Pause; Jackie Wykes ISBN: 9781409465430 Publication Date: 2014-05-09 Shedding light on the ways in which fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat Embodiment destabilizes established ideas about fat bodies, making explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its analyses.

The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies by Amy Farrell (editor) ISBN: 9780367691660 Publication Date: 2023 The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions between these two fields.

Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina StringsISBN: 9781479886753 Publication Date: 2019-05-07 There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn't about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.

Fat Gay Men by Jason WhiteselISBN: 9780814723906 Publication Date: 2014-01-01 Based on ethnographic interviews and in-depth field notes from more than 100 events, Fat Gay Men explores the woundedness that comes from being relegated to an inferior position in gay hierarchies, and yet celebrates how some gay men can reposition the shame of fat stigma through carnival, camp, and play.

Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body by Hannele Harjunen ISBN: 9781317130420 Publication Date: 2016-08-25 Neoliberal bodies and the gendered fat body explores the relationships between fatness, health, and neoliberal discourse and the role of economic policy in the construction of the (gendered) fat body, and examines how neoliberal discourses join patriarchal and biomedical constructions of the fat female body.

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Disclaimer: I am unaffiliated with Pratt Institute Library's. My only intention is to share resources and foster discussion.

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This machine kills AI

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Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!

15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.

Incredible!

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Poll for writers and artists

Whether you write fanfic or original works or paint/draw, be it fan art or original work or whatever else - I have to know, because I have a feeling this is going to be very decisive:

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I love this comic so much.

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My cartoon for this weekend’s @guardian books

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What are your thoughts on fanfiction authors who start writing and publishing original stuff? As someone who writes fanfic, it means a lot to see that a lot of my favorite authors did/do it too, but it also seems like it brings a LOT of crappy internet abuse with it, because sexism. :/

Hi!  My name is Seanan, and I’m a fanfic author.

My first “serious” writing–IE, had a continuity, was not abandoned as soon as it got hard, went through an actual editorial process where a red pen was applied to my precious pages–was for an ElfQuest fanzine called Dreamberry Jam.  I wrote about a glider/sea elf cross named Gull, who basically hopped from one disaster to another, because I was a sixteen year old girl with the power of life or death in her pen I WAS UNSTOPPABLE and I was having so much fun.  So much fun.

My high school LJ (which became my college LJ, which became my post-college LJ) was studded with Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic (not gonna lie: lots of porn there, much of it written for my girlfriend of the time, who had a thing for Buffy/Faith), with Veronica Mars fic (including my Shakespearean adaptation of season one), with Halloweentown fic (I am most of the fandom).  I have participated in every single Yuletide.  My agent knows I will turn down work in December so that I can remain a pitch-hitter for defaults.

What are my thoughts on fanfiction authors who start writing and publishing original stuff?

I’m in favor.

But you’re right: people do get some shit for their fannish pasts, and by “people” I mostly mean “women,” because “being a fanfic writer” is a “giggle giggle let’s show porn to the actors and see if they get mad” thing that girls do, while “putting myself in the story” is a manly masculine imagination thing that boys do.  Almost every guy in my high school creative writing classes began with a self-insert Trek or Wars character, assuming they weren’t writing up their D&D or World of Darkness campaigns, but they never got the scorn from the teachers or other students that the girls got for admitting that maybe they gave their OCs the hair color they’d always wanted.  It goes all the way back to elementary school.  It was totally normal for the boys to be racing around BEING STAR WARS PEW PEW PEW, but weird for the girls to want in.

(I know this is gender essentialist, I know, and I’m so sorry about that, but I’m talking about my elementary school experience, where girls would literally be pulled out of aggressive pretend play, and my high school experience, where the boys were encouraged to file off the serial numbers and the girls were told to write what they knew.  The lens of the past is dusty and cold.)

Most of the shit I see slung at former fanfic writers (or professional authors who still write fanfic) is thrown at women who write YA, because, well, fanfic is juvenile and YA is juvenile (unless you’re a man writing YA romance and then it’s world-changing and revelationary).  They are hence easy targets.  You’re right: it’s sexist.  It’s unfair.  It will, hopefully, decrease and even go away.  It will not happen fast enough for people to stop leaving bruises on my friends.

But here is the thing about fanfic: fanfic never dies.  From kids playing on the playground to elementary schoolers writing their first stories to adults on the internet, fanfic is the human urge to interface with the stories that make us.  A lot of very successful, very powerful works are saved from being fanfic solely by the fact that their source material is no longer under copyright.  As the number of those works increases, as the scholarship on and around fanfic increases, the stigma is going to decrease.  I genuinely believe that.  I look at fandom now and compare it to fandom ten years ago, and I see so much more acceptance of fanfic on both the fannish and professional levels.

Crappy internet abuse aside, fanfic is restorative and powerful and important, and if it’s a thing you enjoy, you should absolutely embrace it with all the joy you can.  The abuse may be here for a while yet.  I will not lie about that.

But I think our stories are stronger.

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JUST FUCKING LISTEN. 

THIS IS HALLOWEEN BUT NOT LIKE YOU KNOW IT

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