October6
You may recall this post in which our Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin talks about being healthy at any size. Well, as refreshing and awesome as that and she is for saying it, it’s time for us to speak up and let her (and our government) know how we feel on the subject! I am personally hand writing a letter (on cutey tare-panda stationary no less) to her right now. Because I think it’s important for her to know that she has my support and a hand written letter, no matter the length, tends to carry more weight (ha-ha) than say an email or tweet. Please consider writing her a letter (because seriously, it only takes two minutes) and just imagine what that would look like? A stream of letters from fats all over the USA, uniting to be heard! Woot!
Office of the Surgeon General
5600 Fishers Lane
Room 18-66
Rockville, MD 20857
October5
This week’s Tank Top Tuesday pic is from Abigail Nussey, she’s been writing about FA for three years now (under a handle), and is currently working on a fat-positive fiction project in addition to her other size-positive fiction projects (mostly science fiction). Check out her personal site: http://nusseymagazine.com
And that tank top? She got it from Torrid during one of their recent 50% clearances. Nice!
Thank you so much for the pic, Abigail! You looke gorgeous!
**Would you like to exercise your right to bare arms? Email me your pic for next week’s Tank Top Tuesday post here: notblueatall@notblueatall.com
October2
Congratulations to Erin! She won my first ever giveaway!
She chose the Perfect Purple Paisley Apron from My Etsy Shop!
Thank you to all who entered. I hope to do another soon.
October1
You may recall in my this post that I’ve been struggling for over two years to find some knee high boots for my fat calves. Thanks to a commenter kimstrauss I had ordered these boots from Lane Bryant: http://bit.ly/cY237m which I had shipped to my local store (free shipping this way) and what do you know? The measurements on the site? Not accurate. Well…okay, I ordered an 8W. I always wear 8W in shoes, unless it’s a generally wider shoe, like my beloved Keens. The boots were way too big in the foot and ankle while the calf, though the elastic would have you believe there’s give and then some, were too small. In fact I could only get them zipped half way up and even that was with some serious work!
So my search continues. Finding a boot with a 20″ calf and 8w shoe size? I’m thinking it’s nearly impossible at this point. I have scoured the interwebz and frankly, I’m sick of searching. I still long for lovely shit-kickers that I can pair with cute dresses (ahhh, my grunge days), but for now I think I will just wait and see what other fats post on Fatshionista (on Livejournal.com) or other blogs. I had such high hopes for those LB boots. I must admit though that they were very cheaply made as the part that connects the foot part to the upper leg part seemed glued together shoddily. Just sayin’! This was the same issue I had with Avenue’s boots last year, couldn’t zip ’em up and even if they had fit? They were so cheaply made they wouldn’t have lasted one night of dancing.
My friend Carmen still holds hope for my boot lust. She insists that there must be a way…and there is, but I cannot afford more than $100 right now. I can’t afford even that but I can make it work at least. No, my patience will be tested again and I will gaze greenly at the other ladies of the world happily sauntering around in their gorgeous boots of awesome.
What was interesting was chatting with the sales gal at LB about my boot ventures and Fat Acceptance. She seemed so confused about retailers not responding to what is an obvious demand by consumers. I laughed at this, hard! Luckily she’s in nursing school and won’t have to be stuck in retail for long. She was sweet. Part of me misses that naivete, but then again? That was before I found FA, so no thanks.
Have you found mad-rad boots? Let me know all about it!
