Unlike seemingly everyone else in the universe, Taylor Swift is having an excellent year. 2009 has been remarkable for Swift, who has seen her career take off in a fairly astronomical fashion. But is she being set up to fail?
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The Stupak-Pitts Amendment is the health-care straw that broke the camel's back. After close to two years of compromising and waiting, progressive, pro-choice women are outraged - but for completely different reasons. Amy Siskind and Kate Harding square off post-jump.
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Kate Harding: "[The show] does does little to dispel the myth that fat people's lives are built around dessert and desperation." Marianne Kirby: "It's a one-two punch of acceptance followed by a knockout blow of shame." [Salon, The Daily Beast]
Today's New York Times "Thursday Styles" section has (another) article about how some people eschew dieting in favor of eating what they want — even if it doesn't make them thin.
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The always awesome Kate Harding has put together a slideshow to debunk the Body Mass Index, a flawed method of measuring obesity levels based solely on weight vs. height ratio, with no attention paid to actual muscle vs. body fat.
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Forever21's "plus sized" line, the God-awfully named Faith21, debuted in stores and online Friday. Noted "fat" writer Kate Hardingwrites, "I give it 3 months."
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Screw "the best" and "the top." You know all about Obama and Vampire Weekend: this list is totally arbitrary and most of the stuff isn't even from 2008. But none the less awesome for that!
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2008 is finally coming to an end, and just like every year, we will watch it go with a strange mix of bewilderment, sadness, elation, and relief, wondering what 2009 has in store for us.
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Jewelry brand Fred, which is "LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned," has acquired another luxury name as its new face: Kate Moss. She'll be snapped by eyebrowed superstar Patrick Demarchelier with French actor Melvil Poupaud. [WWD]
Straight, Gay or Lindsay Lohan—we can all enjoy a good Lezebel. What is a Lezebel? She's a girl who likes girls who is liked by us girls at Jezebel, get it? Good, to the list!
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We've combed through our trove of Snap Judgments and selected the most viewed celebrity pictures of 2008. Travel back to a time when you cared about Ali Lohan, Brooke Hogan and Angelina Jolie's pregnant womb.
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Is Taylor Swift Being Set Up For A Fall?
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Another day, another amazing guest-blogger. Please welcome writer Kate Harding, proprietress of body-acceptance blog Shapely Prose, and author of/contributor to numerous books, including Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce With Your Body and Yes Means Yes. More »More To Love Premieres Tonight; Two "Fat" Writers Weigh In
Kate Harding: "[The show] does does little to dispel the myth that fat people's lives are built around dessert and desperation." Marianne Kirby: "It's a one-two punch of acceptance followed by a knockout blow of shame." [Salon, The Daily Beast]Times Discovers Women Who Don't Diet
Today's New York Times "Thursday Styles" section has (another) article about how some people eschew dieting in favor of eating what they want — even if it doesn't make them thin. More »Kate Harding Takes On The Body Mass Index
The always awesome Kate Harding has put together a slideshow to debunk the Body Mass Index, a flawed method of measuring obesity levels based solely on weight vs. height ratio, with no attention paid to actual muscle vs. body fat. More »Plus-Sized Clothing Line Faith 21: Huge Fail?
Forever21's "plus sized" line, the God-awfully named Faith21, debuted in stores and online Friday. Noted "fat" writer Kate Harding writes, "I give it 3 months." More »Kate Harding Isn't Going To Take Shit Because She's Not A Size 4
The Chicago Tribune's Nara Schoenberg has a great profile of writer Kate Harding who, in addition to blogging at Salon, has her own fat-acceptance blog where she's happy to tell people to fuck off. More »Why We Shouldn't Be Afraid Of The Word "Fat"
Blogger Kate Harding wishes people would just call her fat — in an essay in Salon, she explains why. More »Awesome Stuff We Loved (Incidentally) In 2008
Screw "the best" and "the top." You know all about Obama and Vampire Weekend: this list is totally arbitrary and most of the stuff isn't even from 2008. But none the less awesome for that! More »What Did You Learn In 2008?
2008 is finally coming to an end, and just like every year, we will watch it go with a strange mix of bewilderment, sadness, elation, and relief, wondering what 2009 has in store for us. More »Moët. Louis Vuitton. Kate Moss. Almost A Luxe Haiku, Sans Nature.
- Jewelry brand Fred, which is "LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned," has acquired another luxury name as its new face: Kate Moss. She'll be snapped by eyebrowed superstar Patrick Demarchelier with French actor Melvil Poupaud. [WWD]
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Straight, Gay or Lindsay Lohan—we can all enjoy a good Lezebel. What is a Lezebel? She's a girl who likes girls who is liked by us girls at Jezebel, get it? Good, to the list! More »Baby Bumps, Hunks & Controversies: The Best Snap Judgments Of 2008
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