Three truly productive things you can do about Breast Cancer:
- Self-check your breasts or have a mammogram if you are in the free screening age group. (http://www.bsnsw.org.au)
- Volunteer to help women with breast cancer or donate to an organisation that does. (http://www.bcna.org.au).
- Donate to reputable organisations that fund breast cancer research. (http://www.breastcanceraustralia.org or http://cancercouncil.com.au).
NB: Wearing pink, buying pink products and posting cryptic memes to your facebook status are not listed above. I’d say sorry for being a grumpy bitch, but I’m not really.
NB2: Links are Australia-centric because that’s where I am. But I am sure similar organisations exist in the US and other countries.
(crossposted on Fatadelic: http://fatadelic.wordpress.com)
![I guess it’s the nature of Tumblr, but it would have been nice to have a “From Fatadelic” credit attached to this, seeing as it was extracted from one of my blog posts. http://fatadelic.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/diet-talk-and-fat-acceptance
Cheers.
nynakin:
1. Self Acceptance ≠ Body Acceptance
Self Acceptance relates to the inner whereas Body Acceptance relates to the outer… [read more]
2. Fat Acceptance vs Size Acceptance – Allies with a difference
Philosophically, Size Acceptance and Fat Acceptance are very similar. SA and FA both advocate an end to size & weight related discrimination. The point of difference to my mind is that Fat Acceptance explicitly states that FAT is – and must be – part of that discussion; there can be no upper weight or size limit to our quest for rights and acceptance… [read more]
3. Dieting and Body Acceptance are mutually exclusive If you are dieting, then you believe your body as it currently stands is unacceptable. It really doesn’t matter whether you are trying to lose weight for cosmetic or ‘health reasons’… [read more]
4. Therefore Fat Acceptance and Dieting are mutually exclusive If you believe your own body is so unacceptable that you must starve and shrink it, then by extension, you also must believe that bodies of people who are as large or larger than you are unacceptable… [read more]
5. Diet all you like, just don’t talk about it in Fat Acceptance spacesI really don’t care if you diet. But Fat Acceptance spaces are one place where that cultural pressure is eased (not removed, eased) for a while. I do not require your validation for my choice, nor do I require you to stop dieting… [read more]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq48ijZAOh1qid8zzo1_500.jpg)
I guess it’s the nature of Tumblr, but it would have been nice to have a “From Fatadelic” credit attached to this, seeing as it was extracted from one of my blog posts. http://fatadelic.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/diet-talk-and-fat-acceptance
Cheers.
1. Self Acceptance ≠ Body Acceptance
Self Acceptance relates to the inner whereas Body Acceptance relates to the outer… [read more]
2. Fat Acceptance vs Size Acceptance – Allies with a difference
Philosophically, Size Acceptance and Fat Acceptance are very similar. SA and FA both advocate an end to size & weight related discrimination. The point of difference to my mind is that Fat Acceptance explicitly states that FAT is – and must be – part of that discussion; there can be no upper weight or size limit to our quest for rights and acceptance… [read more]
3. Dieting and Body Acceptance are mutually exclusive
If you are dieting, then you believe your body as it currently stands is unacceptable. It really doesn’t matter whether you are trying to lose weight for cosmetic or ‘health reasons’… [read more]4. Therefore Fat Acceptance and Dieting are mutually exclusive
If you believe your own body is so unacceptable that you must starve and shrink it, then by extension, you also must believe that bodies of people who are as large or larger than you are unacceptable… [read more]5. Diet all you like, just don’t talk about it in Fat Acceptance spaces
I really don’t care if you diet. But Fat Acceptance spaces are one place where that cultural pressure is eased (not removed, eased) for a while. I do not require your validation for my choice, nor do I require you to stop dieting… [read more]
Guys I think I’m doing it wrong…
(Chia Obama day 5)
How the hell did one end up his nose?
(Source: riotsnotdiets)
“Fat and Fatter” Grrr!
Normally wouldn’t post this in two places - but I’ve just posted this to my main blog in response to Australia’s ABC screening a program called “Fat and Fatter” which is extemely fat hating, exploitative and offensive.
“Fat and Fatter” is the most offensively fat-hating program I have ever seen – and worse, it masqueraded as ‘helping’ two young girls, when in reality it was just a freak show with scare tactics thrown in. No doubt this was someone’s misguided attempt at a ‘public health notice’, but that’s not an excuse. Fat nd Fatter is just not up to ABC’s normally high broadcast standards, and I am appalled that the ABC even considered obtaining screening rights to this exploitative tabloid show, let alone actually going so far as to screen it.
The full post is on my main blog.
Dear Fatphobia/Thin Privilege deniers
There is a direct insight into what society thinks about fat people. That we should die, be ashamed, that we’re gross, immoral and useless. At best, figures of ridicule. Try it yourself. Try adding words like “do” or “can” instead of “should” or “are” and notice these aren’t…
I think this is my favourite photograph of Gabourey Sidibe ever.
Two people, vastly different to look at, photographed beautifully together.
Gabourey Sidibe by Bruce Webber in German Vogue
we’re allowed to be overweight as long as we “never quit” trying, publicly and vocally, to be thinner. As long as we stay on the merry-go-round of dieting, and publicize how well we eat and how much we exercise. And it’s the best first line of defense against a lot of people–it shuts people up. Yeah I’m fat, but… (but I exercise four days a week, but I’m a vegan, but I never eat fast food, but I take a dance class, but but…)
What if the real answer is: yeah, I’m fat. And so what?
— Monique “mo pie” van den Berg @ Big Fat Deal (via dearly) (via ilovefat) (via sleepydumpling) (via silentbeep)
that’s a nice philosophy you have there: hating people for their own good. Abusing people doesn’t work for getting people smaller -well wait, you can literally torture them, but short of that, no. But then again, If you are a sadistic, cruel, mean-spirited bully, then hating people for being fat, probably seems just right to you, whether they get thin or not. - me responding to a self-righteous fat hater
— http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/stop-with-the-fat-jokes-new-york-daily-news/58308/#comment-57273869 (via silentbeep)
It occurred to me the other day that fat – considered, in excess, a prima facie pathogen – has come to occupy the place of the medieval humours, and diet and exercise regimens, to make no mention of actual invasive surgery, are absolutely modern bloodletting. The parallels are actually kind of spooky: near-universal support from the medical establishment, temporary and perceptual gains in health, and, on the unlikely realization of its stated goal, mortality.
Physician, heal thyself.
— From ‘Medieval’ by Defective Thin Person.
Reading Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight.
This is why I exercise for strength and stamina AND NOT to “do something about my weight”.
This book should be required reading. Especially for one Ms Susie O’Brien.
