Femme-in-finity

This blog follows my wondering/wandering through a land of reclaiming femme identity from an intersectional, body-positive, reflexive, queer, open and loving, privileged and marginalized positionally.

Interviewing Femmes

Just putting the word out there:

My name is Kathryn Hobson, a PhD graduate student at the University of Denver, in Communication Studies and Performance. I am trying to put the word out there for anyone who self-identifies as FEMME, regardless of sexual orientation/identity, gendersex, who would be interested in co-participating in interviews with me for my dissertation research. I am looking for FEMMES from all different backgrounds, identities (including, but not limited to, race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, age (over 18), education etc…). It would also be preferable if you lived in the Denver area, so that we can make direct contact and connection for the interviews; however, I may be able to do phone/Skype interviews as well. If you might be interested in co-participating in this research, feel free to message me, or pass my information to anyone who may be interested, and have them message me. 

Thank you for any and all of your help.

Best,

Kathryn

hobson.kathryn.du@gmail.com

wheeliewifee: Glamour Magazine Body Size Stereotypes Survey: What the Glamour Magazine poll shows about the assumptions women hold Heavy women are pegged as… “lazy” 11 times as often as thin women; “sloppy” nine times; “undisciplined” seven times; “slow” six times as often. While thin women are seen as… “conceited” or “superficial” about eight times as often as heavy women; “vain” or “self-centered” four times as often; and “bitchy,” “mean,” or “controlling” more than twice as often. Even the “good” labels are unfair. An overweight woman may be five times as likely to be perceived as “giving” as a skinny one. “But it just fits into the stereotype that thin women are not that way,” explains Ann Kearney-Cooke, Ph.D. “It’s still putting women in a box based on their body size.” ————————————————————————————- This is so interesting… and really sad. The fact that heavy women ALSO judge heavy women and thin women judge other thin women is so disheartening. Hopefully places like Stop Hating Your Body can help change this even a little bit at a time…  (click on the image for the entire article, it is worth the read!)

wheeliewifee:

Glamour Magazine Body Size Stereotypes Survey:

What the Glamour Magazine poll shows about the assumptions women hold

Heavy women are pegged as…

“lazy” 11 times as often as thin women; “sloppy” nine times; “undisciplined” seven times; “slow” six times as often.

While thin women are seen as…

“conceited” or “superficial” about eight times as often as heavy women; “vain” or “self-centered” four times as often; and “bitchy,” “mean,” or “controlling” more than twice as often.

Even the “good” labels are unfair.

An overweight woman may be five times as likely to be perceived as “giving” as a skinny one. “But it just fits into the stereotype that thin women are not that way,” explains Ann Kearney-Cooke, Ph.D. “It’s still putting women in a box based on their body size.”

————————————————————————————-

This is so interesting… and really sad. The fact that heavy women ALSO judge heavy women and thin women judge other thin women is so disheartening.

Hopefully places like Stop Hating Your Body can help change this even a little bit at a time… 

(click on the image for the entire article, it is worth the read!)

[T]he whole point of being intellectual today is to be more than an expert. Experts are doing what? They are solving problems formulated by others. You know, if a politician comes to you, ‘Fuck it! Cars are burning! Tell me what’s the psychological mechanism, how do we dominate it?’ No, an intellectual asks a totally different question: ‘What are the roots? Is the system guilty?’ An intellectual, before answering a question, changes the question. He starts with, ‘But is this the right way to formulate the question?’

—Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher/ sociologist/ psychoanalyst (via rethinkcapitalism)

(Source: thecrimson.com, via socyfemme)