From the monthly archives: December 2011

Ugly cute.

On 31 December, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Art, Body Image

My ugly exploration seems to be dividing people fairly sharply down the centre; some find they can not get across reclamation because of their relationship with the word, or how it seems to reinforce beauty ideals/ a binary between ugliness and beauty, while others find it resonates strongly with their experiences. I [...]

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More ugly illustrations.

On 25 December, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Art

At the risk of more people misunderstanding this UGLY PRIDE concept, I present two more illustrations. I’m still working on a “manifugsto” of UGLY, so please bare with me as I wrestle with this through illustration. It should be emphasised that this is a reclamation of UGLY and not self pity or fishing for compliments. [...]

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Miffy does not enjoy holidays.

On 24 December, 2011 · 5 Comments · In Life

But we hope you have the opportunity to enjoy yours, and if you aren’t able to have a holiday I hope you can glean a few moments to look after yourself.

This year has been really tough for me. I’m not the kind of person to tell a whole year to sod off because [...]

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Ugly femme pride

On 22 December, 2011 · 16 Comments · In Art, Body Image

Like many people, I’ve spent a long time fretting over being ugly. Beauty, or being pale and smooth skinned, able bodied, straight haired, thin, with symmetrical features amongst many others of varying arbitrariness, seems to be rewarded with good times, pay rises, attention, excused speeding tickets, prolific representation in the mass media, romantic partners and [...]

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31 today!

On 20 December, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Life

Today is my for-realsies birthday! Getting older is such an odd thing, I said that I still feel like an awkward 16 year old and my mother-in-law replied that she feels the same way too. It seems that many people feel scared and uncomfortable about getting older and treat birthdays with apprehension but I’ve never [...]

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Me closing my eyes and cheesing for the camera, the city behind me looking rather golden.

Pre-birthday unbirthday.

On 19 December, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Fashion

[Warning: this post contains an animated gif.]

The Wheel of Brisbane is pretty much a huge laughing stock situated at South Bank, a somewhat scaled down version of the London Eye. Normally it costs a ridiculous amount just for the pleasure of seeing exactly what you might if you were on a balcony somewhere on [...]

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Kale chips, my new thing.

On 13 December, 2011 · 2 Comments · In food

I’ve been seeing kale chips all over the internet for the last year or so but because kale is oddly hard to find where we live I never tried them until today. If you’re already a kale chip convert feel free to nod knowingly and scroll on, this post is for the newbies.

My [...]

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Road testing my doona dress on a rainy day.

On 12 December, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Fashion

My friends Sonya and Zoe came down the coast on Saturday and we headed out to Burleigh for coffee, food and muggy day playground times. I have been struggling with the muslin for this dress for weeks; even though it’s based on this dress, adding sleeves was a complicated [...]

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Me, smiling in a doctorly way, under the cover of the navy cat umbrella.

I am the Twelfth Doctor?

On 9 December, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Fashion

Doctor Who used to scare me when I was little so I went for a long time without ever really watching it. Just the theme song intro would be enough to freak me out, so I always changed the channel! It wasn’t until this last year that I started actually watching the most recent series [...]

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#fancybonanza, what a kerfuffle.

On 9 December, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Body Image

I was hoping to draw the Fancy Bonanza prize today so I went to look through the hashtag on Twitter and discovered… I couldn’t see tweets older than 6 days old! Argh! I thought I had 30 days of the hashtag archive to play with! This meant that I couldn’t draw the prize in good [...]

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