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A black and white photograph of Sophia Loren reclining in a strapless top, her arms behind her head. Her armpits are scattered with fine hair.

My feral leghair, and why I’m going to grow it.

On 6 September, 2010 · 90 Comments · In Body Image

Shaving unwanted bodily hair has been an act of femininity I’ve been performing since I was 13 or 14 years old. At the time I wanted to shave my legs like the other girls, because those who didn’t were teased and considered masculine or ape-like. Fitting in was important, but very quickly the novelty of [...]

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Creepy TV ads from my childhood

On 7 December, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Funnybones

This jingle has always creeped me right out, and now they’re using it in a revised ad (I think with some of the original talent?) People think I’m strange when I start moaning “more, moooore, MOOOOORE, MORE BUTTERMILK” but it’s the ad that’s making me do it. I swear.

GOBBLEDOCKS. I [...]

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Outfits from the last week

On 21 September, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Blog Stuff, Fashion

The other day I tentatively asked on Twitter whether I should start posting outfit of the day (OOTD) photos here, and was met with a rather confidence boosting and unanimous “YES”. I’ve been posting outfit photos to various flickr pools as well as the Fatshionista Livejournal community for a while, whenever I’ve remembered [...]

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Bruises are Semi-Permanent too: the Brisbane conference

On 9 April, 2009 · 10 Comments · In Events

Yesterday I attended Semi-Permanent 2009 in Brisbane at the Convention Centre. I left feeling overwhelmed, inspired, intimidated and SORE… my head was so full of ideas that I was a little scared, truth be told. I guess if you are scared [...]

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