fat media update number one

Some of you know this already, but some of you don't: I was interviewed for a feminist/size acceptance article in iris (a Charlottesville feminist mag) so many months ago I'd actually forgotten it. And now the issue's out.

It's funny to read it, because I was at a very specific point on my ideological path - shifting out of being Really Very Angry about fat women's fixation on the male gaze and feminist's tendency to talk about how you can be Too Fat and everyone needs to Try To Be Healthy (everyone's favorite euphemism for "diet, damn fatty"). And I was shifting into finding all these points of intersection quite fascinating, a fact that I state like 22 times in the exact same words in the article.

If you're local, you can see it at Plan 9. If you're regional, you can probably find it in independent/feministy bookstores. If you're neither, well... sucks to be you [assuming your definition of "sucking" involves not being able to read me babbling in a magazine].

I sound like a twelve year old, apparently talk! like I use exclamation points! all! the! time! and, in my opinion, come off way less articulate than everyone. But overall the issue and article are pretty good. And I'd rather seem dumb in a smart magazine than vice versa. Also, mad props to cavlec, who is mentioned by idea though not name in my interview.