📷 Photography is both prescriptive and descriptive
In which I talk about how photography both describes the world as it is and shapes what the world becomes.
In which I talk about how photography both describes the world as it is and shapes what the world becomes.
In these 14 new images, a fat white woman (me!) hikes up a gravel path in the mountains on a sunny autumn afternoon. They were taken in Mount Baker National Forest. Traditional stock photography sites offer images that almost always feature young, thin, white, able-bodied people. Does that really reflect the dizzyingly diverse array of…
This plus-size beauty queen and Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon = magic. It was 95 degrees at sunset, but luckily Ms. D is used to the heat and I had plenty of water with me, so we took lots of breaks and it worked out fine. Better than fine, in fact. She’d chosen a sparkling sequin…
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Hi friend, I really admire people who can sit down immediately after an event and write thorough analyses of it, but I’m not one of them. Synthesis* is one of my superpowers, but for me it takes time to simmer and surface. So I don’t have any long, thoughtful piece for you on Trump’s re-election…
Event overview This month, we’re having a pretty special event in the Body Liberation Blanket Fort. Dalia Kinsey will be leading a discussion circle on Saturday, September 28 for healthcare providers to: Our experiences with our own bodies are reflected in the way we interact with patients and clients, so show up ready to do…
Hi friend, The big news in the fat-related world this week is Brendan Fraser’s hideously fatphobic new movie called The Whale. Since there’s been so much commentary, rather than including it in The Conversation section, I’ve given it its own list down in the Quick Resources.