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I've spent a big chunk of the weekend at CLITfest in Wellington, and now I feel fed, not just by the incredible presentations - thoug...

Does it ever make you cringe when you see someone who is overweight gouging themselves on takeaways? No, no it doesn't actually. I r...

Great piece by Melbourne academic Jennifer Lee: A big fat fight: the case for fat activism   My left-wing, friendly and kind GP says, “Yo...

Very happy to bring you another guest post by hazel. Her flatmate reacted to this rant with a concerned "have you been reading the comm...

i was watching 7 days on friday night, as i do when i get the chance. well, wouldn't you know it, one of the news items was auckland fem...

There have been a few things that have inspired this post. I've really appreciated the voices emerging from the fat positive/size acce...

An Auckland public transport blogger - I'm not going to link, you should be able to google it if you want - has just posted about teh ho...

I'm not sure how to even start the internal conversations I want to have about my body. I always seem to be on the defensive, trying to ...

ARGH the first, was the news, via Russell Brown on twitter (@publicaddress), that Bronagh Key is down on the royal wedding invite list as ...

Cross posted Professor John Birkbeck has surfaced in New Zealand newspapers again, telling fat people that it's all their own fault tha...

Cross posted Global warming is all the fatties' fault! Of course!! And even better, in addition to paying for indulgences , we've ...

And so ends another gripping season of ANTM. During the final, three things in particular struck me: - Tyra's face actually appeared su...

Idiot Savant noticed this in today's Herald and emailed it through. Basically an American couple have been refused residency in NZ ma...

I see there has been a bit of a stash between the usual suspects about Anne Tolley's decision to remove a national directive requiring...

I feel like David Farrar and I have been playing blog-chicken for a while. Sooner or later one of us was going to have something on our blo...

From Stuff's lifestyle section, AUT research reckons : Many girls who did not see themselves as overweight were trying to lose weight an...

Spotted this ad in an NZ Women's Weekly (I think, one of those mags) on the weekend. So on the one hand NZ Women's Health says it...

Yesterday, my family and I went to the local Santa parade. It was kind of lacklustre. Highlights included a disgruntled middle-aged guy on a...

There's a spectrum of feminist responses to the beauty myth. At one end, there's the dour ladies who feel that any concession to the...

Clearly, I've got too much time on my hands. If I didn't, I wouldn't be so familiar with the talkshows. I know I shouldn...