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World AIDS Day & More on Medical Self-Advocacy

December 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

Take it from someone whose routine trip to the GYN turned into a kerfuffle of mis[fat]diagnosiswhen a doctor is supposed to be treating you for something and launches into the fat talk you can politely tell them “I am not here to discuss my weight with you. I am here to discuss my bits, my HIV status and whether I am at risk for cancers.” I like to have a mantra to prepare ahead of time.

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Tags: Glitter on the Mattress · Queer Fat Femme and the City · Queer Oprah

Secret Single Behaviors

November 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments

In celebration of my singlehood, I’ve decided to share with you, gentle readers, some of my deepest Secret Single Behaviors. There was an episode of Sex and the City that talks about Secret Single Behaviors–those things that you do when you’re alone, because you’re single and you can get away with it.

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Nobody Ever Died of Awkward: The Queer Fat Femme Guide to Battling Insecurity and Asking People Out

October 13th, 2009 · 10 Comments

Half the reasons I’ve missed out on getting ass in my lifetime is by not articulating my desire. Insecurity, fear of rejection, fear of being made fun of… the list is endless. It’s hard to put yourself out there in a racist, homophobic, misogynist, binary gendered, anti-erotic, fatphobic, ableist, etc… society when you’re at one or many of those intersections of marginalized identities. Plainly stated, I’ve been a fat girl my whole life, shit from middle school runs deep and it’s hard to bounce back from significant early rejection.

Out of that insecurity can come a bevy of reasons to psych yourself out of propositioning someone.

After that moment I incorporated “Nobody ever died of awkward” into my regular on stage repetoire.

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Tags: Glitter on the Mattress · Queer Fat Femme and the City · Queer Oprah

The Queer Fat Femme Guide to Breaking Up and Declining a Date Invite

October 1st, 2009 · 15 Comments

‘ve had a hard time articulating a way in which I can turn my latest rage into productivity. In the absence of some flowery prose, I will tell you what is giving me the rage lately:

People who don’t know how to break things off with someone properly and/or who cannot gracefully turn down a date.

First, I will give you a list of real life examples from my life and my friends lives in the last couple of months to illustrate why my rage is at a boil.

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Tags: Glitter on the Mattress · Queer Fat Femme and the City · Queer Oprah

Additions to the Queer Lexicography: Ages and Dating and PR

September 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A Tiny is someone who is in their barely twenties.* Tinies can be great. They are someone you can be really tender with because of their stark vulnerability in contrast to your older jadedness. They can be really fun to corrupt. They can also help you not take things so seriously. Tinies sometimes have more active sex drives. They can make you feel really old when they don’t understand your Jem and the Holograms references.

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The Queer Fat Femme Guide to Surviving Getting Stood Up

September 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I got stood up on Sunday night. Since one of my Queer Fat Femme values is to turn rage into productivity, I decided to share with you my Stand Up Survival Guide.

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Additions to the Queer Lexicography: Polyamory Edition

July 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Side Dish: An apt way to describe a special lover who is not your main lover or partner. As further explicated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha when I threw the term around her the other day: “You can enjoy a meaty entrée on its own, but how much better is it with a delicious side of greens or okra? Giving you vitamins and tastes that you just don’t get with the main dish. Making both taste more delightful in the mouth. How lovely.”

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Tags: Glitter on the Mattress · Queer Fat Femme and the City · queer lexicography

Correspondence: Aqueel or Michael

July 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

From the myspace mailbag:

Hi, Nice profile :)

Just wondering, do u ever flirt with men ?
If not, would you ever flirt just for fun ?

Michael

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Additions to the Queer Lexicography: Dry Spell Edition

June 16th, 2009 · 5 Comments

I have the following updates to the Queer Lexicography to present unto you.

The first, courtesy of Zuleikha Mahmood, co-founder of the Femme Sharks.

Critically underbanged. It’s a great alternative to the term “dry spell” but can also be used to describe Lesbian Bed Death and any really unsatisfying sex. She used it in a craig’s list ad of all places, to request that someone help her protest her state of being. It worked, too, she totally found her recent boo from it and is now contentedly well-banged.

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Tags: Events and Announcements · Glitter on the Front Porch · Glitter on the Mattress · Queer Fat Femme and the City · queer lexicography

Guest Post: Stacy Bias on the Hegelian Dialectic and HWP on Craig’s List

April 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Let’s talk about HWP. You craigslist junkies will likely know what this means, but for those who haven’t had the pleasure, I’ll expand the acronym. HWP = Height/Weight Proportionate. In other words, it’s a socially acceptable way to say “No Fatties.”

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