Fat activism in New Zealand - 20/20 New Zealand - Feb 16th 2012 (by FriendofMarilyn)
Have you seen most of the plus-size sections out there? It’s horrifying. Whoever’s designing for plus-size doesn’t get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can’t just take a size 8 and make it larger. In my travels, I’ve been an advocate for larger women. I’ve been talking to designers, but only a half-dozen make an effort. Most say, ‘I don’t want a woman who’s a size 10 or 11 wearing my clothes.’ Well, shame on you! It’s not realistic. We need to address real women with real needs.
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Tim Gunn
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Oh look, it’s the flier for our first show!
Date: Friday 1st June 2012
Venue: Revolt Melbourne Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St Kensington
Time: Doors 7pm, show 8pm
Tickets: $25 full, $20 concession, $17 group (5 or more)
Tickets are on sale now, and you can buy them here
Hope to see you there!
I am SO! FREAKING! EXCITED! about this!
I’ll be there!
The people who get angriest about fat girls looking good and feeling hot are the people who are the most strongly invested in the idea that a person has to be skinny in order to be happy, healthy, and loved.
I just have nothing but lust and admiration for Kelli Jean Drinkwater.
” Death By Done ” model n concept : Kelli Jean Drinkwater /photography : Penelope Benton - check out this in print in current issue of VOLUPT 2 magazine. And the Simulacra issue of Slit Mag - both out now xxx
Yes! Love Kelli Jean!!
Miss Piggy might me a fictional character, but she can be a source of inspiration.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.“
—Miss Piggy
MISS PIGGY IS MY SHERO!!!!
Fantastic. Someone bring me this blazer.
Nadia is gorgeous ! she looks like a warrior woman ! just wow ! Shi xoxo
Gorgeous blazer
Meet Irena Sendler (1910-2008)
She was a 98 year-old Polish woman at her time of death. During World War II, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She dedicated herself to smuggling Jewish children out. Infants were carried in the bottom of the tool box she used and older children in a burlap sack she had in the back of her truck.
She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children during this time
She eventually was caught and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families but most had been killed. She then helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.
In 2007, Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected.
Al Gore won for presenting a slide show on Global Warming.
Not only does this story completely inspire me (to continue looking to the future and doing good for others), but it also infuriates me to know that this woman was not selected- that a slide show of Global Warming won over the intelligence and bravery of a woman fighting against the evils in her world and saving lives.
