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Is Taylor Swift Being Set Up For A Fall?
"Girl" Fight: PUMAs & Progressives Share Call To Abortion-Rights Action
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. More »"Lettuce With A Side Of Batshit" Less Lucrative Than Actual Food
The Great Kate: Jez & The Amazing, Technicolor Dreamblogger
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 »Study Shows Overweight Women Have The Most Sex