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There’s a call for subs for anyone interested in writing pieces about experience, acceptence, and all things in-between from fat women for a new book called Phat Girls in Search of a Pretty World. So far as I know, there’s no cut-off BMI for what exactly constitutes a “fat” girl. If you’re a woman who […]

I don’t know when I first saw the movie Romancing the Stone, but as it came out in `84 and I was born in `80, I was probably pretty young, as it ended up in our VHS collection at some point, after being rented at least a couple of times. To sum up, Kathleen Turner

Ah. The “He’s Just Not Into You” craze. Once again, Amanda’s already been on this, and here’s the Salon article that takes the “He’s just not that into you” book to task, but I wanted to throw in my 2 cents about the dating bullshit. Now, I’ve already discussed why I haven’t dated since Alaska

Thank you, Amanda, for finding this news article about the 2,000 year old skeleton of a female warrior in Iran: DNA tests on the 2,000-year-old bones of a sword-wielding Iranian warrior have revealed the broad-framed skeleton belonged to woman, an archaeologist working in the northwestern city of Tabriz said on Saturday. and, ha ha —

A big welcome to all of those visitors streaming in from the LJ feminist & misc. friend forums, and a big thanks to Ann for sending them my way… My hit count tripled yesterday. Great to have you here.

It should surprise no one that I come from a family of tall, strong, crazy, hysterical, intelligent, passionate, big-hipped women. Mostly, we’ve just been told we’re crazy and hysterical. The rest, we had to figure out on our own. I had a great-grandmother who was a smoking, drinking, philandering type who’d give money to bums

So, it bugged Amanda and Echidne, too, which I find quite funny, because when I hopped over to Kos’s place and read his justification for the lack of PC diversity among his guestbloggers, something in me went, “Huh?” too. Amanda explored the issue further, I think, in this post about the democratic party’s seeming reluctance

“I get incredibly close to my characters. When I’m in full-on writing mode it’s the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think about before falling asleep at night. Sometimes when I wake up in the night I wish someone at Microsoft would invent something that allows you

An interview with Catherynne M. Valente, author of The Labyrinth. Why should readers pick up your book as opposed to, say, just about anybody else’s book? Because my book is so much cheaper than LSD, and nearly twice as legal. You are required to brave up to 60% fewer dark alleys and abandoned factories to

The Guardian has some questions up that are often posed to non-white, non-Christian and/or non-straight interviewees: now it’s time to turn the tables – Do you think of yourself as white or American or both? Ummm… Does it worry you that you got your job just because of your race? Yes. Where are you from?