Posts Written by adelaida
By adelaida • 11 years ago

On fatshion



I just finished the book my Mom gave my for my birthday, a book I’ve really been looking forward to reading, Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girl on Life, Love, & Fashion edited by Virgi Tovar.  I became aware of Fat Activism in a class I took my last semester of college called Women Filmmakers.  My friend Dot made a video about her journey to self-acceptance, not an easy feat in a society obsessed with an ideal of beauty, and the ideal beauty (unfortunately) very, very, rarely takes the shape of a fat girl.  Dot posted her video on youtube so you can see it here:

*NSFW*

A few months later I somehow found Virgie Tovar through her youtube channel which features Virgie’s Girl to Fat Girl Living.  I promptly fell in love with her (I mean have you seen the series? How could you not?!?!) and realized I need to confront a lot of my own body negativity and some of my own fat phobia.  Fast forward months later and Virgie finally came out with this wonderful collection of essays which I just had the pleasure to read.  She divided it into three sections, as the title suggests.  I of course skipped right to the back to the fashion section (you know me).  There I found a lot that resonated.  These fabulous fat girls also saw fashion as not just ...
By adelaida • 13 years ago

Body Positive

*Editor’s note: May be NSFW

Our first assignment for the Women Filmmakers class I’m taking at Hampshire College was to create a short slideshow about an autobiographical event that shaped how we construct ourselves with specific attention to gender.

My friend and classmate, Dot, produced a wonderful piece about body positivity.  Dot’s piece about body size and normalized images of desire is an honest, frank and candid narrative of the need for positive acceptance of all body sizes.  I could go on about how wonderful this short piece is but her work can and does speak for itself.

*Editor’s note: May be NSFW

Our first assignment for the Women Filmmakers class I’m taking at Hampshire College was to create a short slideshow about an autobiographical event that shaped how we construct ourselves with specific attention to ...
By adelaida • 13 years ago

Body Positive

*Editor’s note: May be NSFW

Our first assignment for the Women Filmmakers class I’m taking at Hampshire College was to create a short slideshow about an autobiographical event that shaped how we construct ourselves with specific attention to gender.

My friend and classmate, Dot, produced a wonderful piece about body positivity.  Dot’s piece about body size and normalized images of desire is an honest, frank and candid narrative of the need for positive acceptance of all body sizes.  I could go on about how wonderful this short piece is but her work can and does speak for itself.

*Editor’s note: May be NSFW

Our first assignment for the Women Filmmakers class I’m taking at Hampshire College was to create a short slideshow about an autobiographical event that shaped how we construct ourselves with specific attention to ...
By adelaida • 13 years ago

Body Positive

*Editor’s note: May be NSFW

Our first assignment for the Women Filmmakers class I’m taking at Hampshire College was to create a short slideshow about an autobiographical event that shaped how we construct ourselves with specific attention to gender.

My friend and classmate, Dot, produced a wonderful piece about body positivity.  Dot’s piece about body size and normalized images of desire is an honest, frank and candid narrative of the need for positive acceptance of all body sizes.  I could go on about how wonderful this short piece is but her work can and does speak for itself.

*Editor’s note: May be NSFW

Our first assignment for the Women Filmmakers class I’m taking at Hampshire College was to create a short slideshow about an autobiographical event that shaped how we construct ourselves with specific attention to ...
By adelaida • 14 years ago

Perspective from a Geek Feminist

I don’t start my day with a cup of coffee- I start it by reading feministing.  I’ve even set it as my homepage!  BUT I do sometimes get anxious about the lack of coverage about techy FLOSS issues.  Which is why I really appreciated a recent post by Geek Feminism :

“There’s lots of feminism online that, aside from being online, isn’t particularly geeky. Or at least, isn’t tech/science/math-geek geeky. What do you think they’re missing? What issues are the big names like feministing or feministe or pandagon completely missing because of their non-geeky nature?”

Check out the full post .

I don’t start my day with a cup of coffee- I start it by reading feministing.  I’ve even set it as my homepage!  BUT I do sometimes get anxious about the lack of coverage about techy

By adelaida • 14 years ago

Anti-choice invaders in my community!

Hello everyone.  It’s been quite a while since I’ve been around here.  Technical difficulties, and lot’s of work to do have kept me away, but I now find myself returning for a special occasion; the invasion of MY area by perhaps the most radical of the nations prominent pro-life groups,  and MY first chance to get out and DO something about this issue in the REAL WORLD, instead of just ranting on the internet.

I live in a small town in New Mexico, called Los Lunas.  It’s an easy half hour drive to Albuquerque, which is one of only two real cities in this state.  Since the horrific death of Dr. Tiller, in Kansas, Operation Rescue, headed up by it’s truly ...

Hello everyone.  It’s been quite a while since I’ve been around here.  Technical difficulties, and lot’s of work to do have kept me away, but I now find myself returning for a special occasion; the invasion of ...
By adelaida • 15 years ago

Women in Free Software Mini-Summit

I attended the Free Software Foundation’s women in free software mini-summit two weeks ago.  The summit was created in order to discuss ideas on how to involve more women in the movement.  Women make up a disproportionately small portion of the free software movement.  As Deb puts it "Women account for less than 2% of our community and that’s just no way to run a successful movement to empower users."

I thought the community might like to check it out:

p.s. For those who don’t know about the free software movement, it is an ethical movement that is concerned with bringing freedom back to users over their software.  You can learn more by going clicking here .

I attended the Free Software Foundation’s women in free software mini-summit two weeks ago.  The summit was created in order to discuss ideas on how to involve more women in the movement.  Women make up a disproportionately ...
By adelaida • 15 years ago

male feminist dating

I am a male feminist, 17 years old (very young for a guy to be into this stuff, I know, but that’s beside the point), and I find dating a bit of a a complicated issue.  The truth is, I like girls as much as any other teenage guy.  None the less, I have always found that I can be just as sexual as anyone else without being at all degrading to those I am with.  There is very little about sexuality that seems truly affected by which person you happen to be in the relationship (male or female) other than that which is generated by our culture.

Anyway as a guy, I can’t say I have experienced the same ...

I am a male feminist, 17 years old (very young for a guy to be into this stuff, I know, but that’s beside the point), and I find dating a bit of a a complicated issue.  The ...