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Stacy Bias - stacybias.bsky.social

2 years

I've launched a new website and name for my animation work! Your Story Studio. Tagline: Your stories are moving. (see what I did there?) Stories are the most powerful tools in the world for creating empathy and engagement. Let's get yours moving!

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Stacy Bias - stacybias.bsky.social

@stacybias

7 years

Thread: Thin women, we need to talk about your violence.

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7 years

So here's what I want to say to you, thin women. If my body raises your ire so much that you can't help but be violent: GET SOME HELP.

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2 years

I’ve been around Fat Activism so long now that I don’t even know how to be angered by fatphobic “hot takes” anymore. It’s just so boring to me. And so apparent that people are just trying to be sensationalist. But expressing fatphobic sentiment is not sensational. It’s common.

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7 years

Women demanding conformance from women, under threat of violence, to the aesthetic mandates of the male gaze -- that's RIDICULOUS.

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7 years

You are out of control. You're so buried and unwitting in your own oppression that you've become a literal tool of the patriarchy.

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7 years

It's important to note these things as they happen and so I'll continue to do so. #fathate #stigma #fuckthatguy #andthesystemthatmadehim

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7 years

Verbal harassment is more heavily male. But when men walk into me, it's oblivious entitlement. When women do it, they meant to do it.

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7 years

You're RIDICULOUS. Please get it together. You're a danger to yourself and others. We could be in this together if you did. Imagine that.

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2 years

You’re not being shocking or subversive by hating on fat folks in a public forum. You’re not ”saying the quiet part out loud”. There is no quiet part of sizeism. You’re just basic. Punching down for attention. Showing your hateful arse for approval. It’s weak. It’s expected.

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@stacybias

8 years

The Flying While Fat animation is finally live! Watch, share and let's change the culture of flying for everyBody!

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7 years

When I am physically harassed on the street or the train, 90% of the time it's young, conventionally pretty women between 15 and 30.

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7 years

But until you've been in a body like mine, or in any other body that faces daily micro and macro aggressions just for existing,

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7 years

But back to thin women - because you're the real focus here. I know- #notallthinwomen . But some of you, enough of you, are violent.

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7 years

Honestly it's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for you. Especially the bit where you don't even realize the irony of the agenda you're serving

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@stacybias

1 year

Your annual reminder that the Law of Attraction / Manifesting / Etc. is white supremacist bullshit meant to individualise the concepts of success and abundance and render structural inequality (and the way it privileges white cisgender heterosexual able-bodied people) invisible.

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9 years

I'm guessing the comedically terrible experience of trying to get tickets for #Dismaland is pretty much exactly what Banksy was going for.

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@stacybias

6 years

To lay claim to an experience as the 'first' or the 'only' ignores a fundamental privilege, which is having platform enough to make your story heard. The people who can successfully colonise an idea or an experience are rarely ever the first or the only to think or experience it.

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7 years

then you won't have learned our hyper-vigilance. Until you've dodged lit matches at bus stops or burning cigarette butts from passing cars,

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3 years

Thread: Normatively-bodied people, y'all do not know how easy you have it sometimes. The Fat Tax on getting my booster in a way that I can have faith is correctly administered (e.g. via a longer needle to make sure it actually hits my deltoid) was:

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@stacybias

7 years

Femme Squad for the Fat Bod! Someone put me in touch with a producer -- this should 100% for really reals happen!

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@stacybias

7 years

then any marginalised person walking beside you will always be a little bit alone. So be patient. Be kind. Be present.

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@stacybias

6 years

Scarcity culture in activism is such a challenge. Scarcity is real inside of oppression. Marginalised folks will have been denied opportunities and affirmations their entire lives, doubled along every additional axis of oppression (race, gender, sexuality, size, ability, etc.)

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6 years

If you haven't already seen #DumplinMovie on Netflix, you MUST. It is absolutely the movie I wish I'd had as a young, fat, queerling. Multiple fat heroines, feminist agendas, drag queens, healing from internalised fat hatred, wanting/rejecting mainstream beauty. It's SO MUCH!

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@stacybias

7 years

Until you've learned, by necessity, the ability to intuit the difference between cruel laughter & joy from the distance of a city block,

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@stacybias

6 years

@yrfatfriend @wordscience I co-founded Chunky Dunk in 2005! It's been going for nearly 15 years now in Portland, passing hand-to-hand to different organisers and building networks and communities. It's a wonderful space and I'm so glad it still exists!

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2 years

What would be shocking, useful & interesting would be learning nuance, interrogating your hate out loud, figuring out where it comes from, why you need it, & why on earth investing your energy in it feels better than doing the work of compassion & complex political understanding.

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@stacybias

7 years

This is an improvement for us, being on the same team against the everyday violence I experience in this body. I'm grateful.

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@stacybias

8 years

Couldn't help myself! #FatGirlFront

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7 years

How did I know it was menacing from 100 paces away? Because I have lived in this body for 43 years. My guts are a finely-tuned instrument.

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7 years

It's a strange thing to be so alone in the company of the woman who loves me best. Or the friends who know me best.

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@stacybias

6 years

I'm so pleased a space like this is the central arc of such an uplifting narrative. Fat folks have been swimming together since the 1970s. It changes lives. I saw @wordscience call it a love letter in another tweet and it absolutely is. For so so many of us. Not just one of us.

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7 years

When I explained myself, her body wilted. "Why can't we ever just go for a fucking walk?" she asked. My heart split right down the center.

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2 years

@LilNasX My mom told me I should be “celibate for the sake of my soul” when I came out. A year later I dragged her along to a gay club. A year after that, *she* came out and has been with her wife for 20+ years. Gay clubs are church for queers.

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3 years

80 hours of my life across a full year to complete this embroidery piece. Each little V is no bigger than the head of a pin. Inspired by starling murmurations and a meditation on togetherness in this time we've all been forced apart. Can't believe it's finally done! #murmuration

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@stacybias

6 years

All this to say, I 100% do not believe that Lindy and Samantha "stole" or plagiarised the pool party scene in Shrill. Anyone who has ever been to a fat pool party (which have been around since the 70s, btw!) has had that kind of transformative epiphany.

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@stacybias

7 years

until you've heard car engines rev at the edges of crosswalks followed by dark laughter, until you've felt the sting of a stranger's spit,

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@stacybias

5 years

UK Folks please be especially compassionate w/ your fat friends for the next few weeks. Cancer Research UK has again stirred the fat-hate pot with another careless anti-obesity campaign. The news is rife with rhetoric & there are fat-shaming billboards everywhere. Be good allies.

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7 years

@rp_415 Telling me how I should handle situations like this is super condescending. I care for myself exactly the way I need to. You do you.

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7 years

She weathered the sarcasm like a champ. She's used to it now. Knows to give me a minute and let me come back to center. Knows not to judge.

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@stacybias

2 years

Here is my dog having an existential crisis in the woods.

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@stacybias

7 years

"Sorry!" I blurted unthinkingly, cursing my polite instincts. "Sorry!" you mimicked in a dull voice, as you both burst into brutal laughter.

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@stacybias

4 years

16 hours of embroidering but I’m so proud of how this has turned out! Thanks to Body Home Fat Dance for the glorious photo to work from!

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@stacybias

6 years

I co-founded the #ChunkyDunk in PDX and it's still going strong, passed hand-to-hand from organiser to organiser for FIFTEEN YEARS, for exactly this reason. Unadulterated joy in our bodies, together, in the sun. And we're just one of many such gatherings.

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@stacybias

9 years

Coming soon - #Chubbemoji fat positive emojis! First up: inspired by @GabbySidibe & her amazing GG private jet tweet! http://t.co/1nVotEJTjc

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7 years

"Sorry." I say. One word. She nods, touches my elbow, asks me a question about the play we're about to see. I answer in monotone.

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@stacybias

7 years

"Oh that thing where they bashed into me on purpose? Yeah, that's fine." I sniped -then instantly felt ashamed at lashing out at her.

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@stacybias

6 years

@yrfatfriend How much privilege they have in comparison and how to leverage that to amplify superfat voices, even at the expense of their own social capital.

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7 years

London is a busy city. Often we walk single-file down crowded, cobbled corridors. Often she misses the moments of impact.

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@stacybias

7 years

I was a storm cloud by the time we spoke again and my mouth was full of lightening when I spoke. She didn't know why. She thundered back.

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@stacybias

7 years

But as you passed, your friend reared up & gave you a little shove. You hit hard against my shoulder, twisting my body sideways.

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6 years

It's impossible not to be moved/transformed by the experience of being in a space full of fat people feeling joyful and grounded in their bodies, feeling free to get the sun on their bare skin, and being in the company of one another. NO ONE OWNS THAT.

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@stacybias

2 years

Genuinely crestfallen. And worried for trans and queer people in the UK. Nicola has been a bright and hopeful feminist spark and the loss of her leadership feels like a loss for inclusivity and empathy in politics. Grateful to have lived here under her leadership.

Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

How gutted I and others feel serves only as a testament to the success of @NicolaSturgeon ’s leadership. Thank you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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@stacybias

7 years

So I stepped aside, not halfway as decent humans do to make room for one another, but 100% of the way, well in advance of your arrival.

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@stacybias

6 years

Oh #Dietland - where were you when I was a little fat queerling? The trajectory Plum is on, from self-loathing to pissed off, is exactly what we all need. Legit have to stop watching to take deep breaths. @JoyNash is a powerful storm on screen and @QueSaraiSera is a gift. <3

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@stacybias

6 years

They're just the first with a voice loud enough to be heard. That privilege doesn't, or shouldn't, bestow exclusive ownership over what is almost always a shared experience. We may own the specific telling of our version of an experience, but we do not own the experience itself.

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7 years

One time, in SOHO, I tucked in behind her against a wide stream of strangers when I felt a sharp jab to my ribs. "MOO, Bitch!"

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@stacybias

7 years

I looked up quickly to see an ugly sneer across the face of an otherwise pretty blonde woman. "Fuckin' cow!" she hissed as she moved past me

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@stacybias

7 years

My partner and I walked in silence for a few paces. "You OK?" she eventually asked.

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@stacybias

3 years

(Also, I think it helped that the guy that booked me in was a very round man himself - and I thank him with all my heart for the tenacity it took to do what he does in the world in his body. Anyone who goes through formal medical training in a fat body is a goddamn hero.)

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7 years

Even with an open courtyard beside you, I knew you would not give way. You would walk full-force, shoulder forward, straight into my body.

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7 years

It was gutting and over before I could blink. I walked behind my partner for another half a mile before we were beside each other again

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@stacybias

6 years

This was a pleasant surprise!

Samantha Bee

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6 years

America's obsession with and fear of obesity is putting fat people's lives at risk. As a reminder: don't worry, you can laugh! This segment was written by fat people! Featuring the thicc and fabulous @kristencheeks and @ashleyn1cole .

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6 years

To make it worse, scarcity culture creates competition for both finite (attention) and infinite (affection) resources, so that scarcity is both real and not-real, which makes it difficult to figure out where to fight and where to lay down arms. We are defensive. Necessarily.

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@stacybias

7 years

There were benches, flowers drying against a lovingly placed memorial ghost bike & a mural of beautiful black & brown faces towering above.

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@stacybias

6 years

We do not own words, phrases or experiences that already exist in the shared vernacular. Slapping a hashtag on them, publishing an academic paper about them, giving a publicised talk about them, writing in a magazine about them - those acts don't confer ownership, just privilege.

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7 years

@ClairetyLouise I think they know exactly the impact of their words. I think hurting is their intention. Hurt people hurt people.

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@stacybias

7 years

Instinctively and a single fluid movement, I stepped nearer - almost behind - my partner and tucked my elbow in tight against my body.

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7 years

Instead, I was watching you: two young girls in matching black bomber jackets with arms linked in a menacing camaraderie.

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@stacybias

7 years

The other day, I was walking with my partner down a busy sidewalk which then gave way to an open courtyard and a lovely garden entrance.

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@stacybias

6 years

I just want to re-advocate for the creation of "Femme Squad for the Fat Bod": a fairy bear takes you shopping, a powerhouse Domme models empowerment, a NB Stemme fills yer shelves w/feminist propaganda, a massive twink redesigns your flat, & I just hug people a lot & cry. #FS4FB

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5 months

@dr_chairbreaker I absolutely shared this experience as a very fat person living in a hip, walkable neighbourhood in London. I also struggled to leave the house, and my mental and physical health declined. It was brutal.

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7 years

Stuff I've learned the hard way, Part 1: If your activism means that you're threatened by the skills, talents and accomplishments of others, it's time to take a look at that and do better. Scarcity isn't really a thing. There's enough work and enough affirmation for everyone.

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@stacybias

2 years

Thin folks in gym settings; for some of y'all, seeing a fat body in the gym is a literal embodiment of your most unexamined fatphobic fears, and you just can't help but show your arse about it. It's not cute. The gym is a hostile space for fat bodies & the reason for that is you.

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7 years

What if we collectively decided that being sad is absolutely as acceptable as being angry, fierce, calm, centered, or healed?

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7 years

A rare waft of greenery filled the air despite the belching cars in the r lane road beside me, but I wasn't paying attention to any of that.

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@stacybias

7 years

What if we recognized grief and sadness as a nearly inescapable and entirely rational reactions to stigma and oppression?

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@stacybias

7 years

@CaptainNavii Privilege erodes empathy. Every privilege you have means you have to work that much harder to be mindful and decent. With great power... ;)

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@stacybias

6 years

But this scarcity culture doesn't just exist as a divide along privilege - it happens everywhere within activism in big and small ways - and sometimes (not every time!) I think there can be a lack of scrutiny, compassion and generosity embedded in scarcity-based defensiveness.

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@stacybias

6 years

Anyone who's currently actively writing about fat stuff -- anyone who's writing about fat from an academic, journalistic, or activist platform -- anyone who has any kind of platform about fat right now, is writing on the backs of decades of work that came before.

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@stacybias

7 years

Self advocacy for fat patients: Thought I'd share this letter I sent out last week while shopping for an osteopath. Use/Reword as you like!

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@stacybias

6 years

This becomes so confusing when it comes to things like "ideas" and "stories" and "experiences", because there's a long history of white folks appropriating these from BIPOC and colonising them and the associated anger, fear and defensiveness is so valid and so understandable.

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@stacybias

3 years

If they were in bad moods or any less inclined to be helpful, that would not have happened. I shouldn't have to fight this hard to be sure that I'm getting adequate and accurate healthcare. None of us should. Not all of us can. Or will.

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1 year

@JaneyGodley To hell with TERFs! Here is my dog Luna having an existential crisis in the woods. ❤️❤️❤️

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3 years

Only took me 8 years to get around to updating my eyeglass prescription. Hello world! You’re not as blurry as I thought you were!

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7 years

Thread: Is there such a thing as Radical Sadness?

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7 years

As radical as being "fierce" and "giving no fucks" is being radically vulnerable and maintaining the wherewithal to give "too many" fucks

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4 years

This gentle moment of feeling proud and strong is what 90 days of ED recovery looks like (for me).

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@stacybias

3 years

Excited to find that my Flying While Fat animation has been selected for the 11th Social Justice Film Festival! So glad it's still doing the rounds! Thanks again to @DrBEvans and the University of Liverpool for making the animation possible!

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@stacybias

6 years

Thrilled to finally share this commissioned animation that very briefly explains the roots and fundamentals of the social theory of Intersectionality as coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw! Commissioned by @hopkinspeter1 and Newcastle University!

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@stacybias

2 years

@getTheConqueror Please don’t get all Diet Culture on us. Keep your focus on mindful, joyful movement and positive associations with physical and mental health. You’re going to trigger a lot of folks with eating disorders with this kind of stuff. Be better than this.

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@stacybias

2 years

I’m going to pretend the girl in the gym locker room was not just taking surreptitious photos of me so I don’t lose my sh*t and never go to the gym again. But also f*ck literally every fatphobic jerk doing the devil’s (e.g. capitalism/mysogyny’s) work for him like a zombie pawn.

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7 years

Four original watercolors in my #fatspo galaxy series available now on Etsy!

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4 years

1 year ED Recovery Anniversary. Celebratory morning walk. Getting caught in the rain felt like a perfect happenstance. It's been a wild ride and I'm so grateful to be present and joyful. It's better here.

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@stacybias

2 years

So pleased to announce that my latest animation collaboration with @hopkinspeter1 (Newcastle) and team about the complex & ongoing experience of 'arrival' that refugees/asylum seekers experience has been accepted to the SF Queer Film Festival!

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@stacybias

7 years

What if people who see sadness as weakness shut the fuck up for once & stop pushing a neoliberal agenda of punitive self-reliance & blame?

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@stacybias

7 years

If you are the type to take injustice to heart and grieve for it -- we need you. You are chock full of empathy and that's beautiful.

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@stacybias

7 years

What if we celebrated radical sadness as an expression of strength and survival in a world that tells us to shut up and take it?

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@stacybias

5 years

THREAD: I want to say something about navigating fat stigma together within the context of mixed-privilege relationships. I'm going to speak in terms of couplehood as shorthand but this applies as well to poly relationships, friendships, and even colleagues.

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@stacybias

7 years

@katyacoldheart @rp_415 Also I don't owe anyone a response. I am not obligated to educate strangers on the street about how not to be a douchebag. Can I just live?

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@stacybias

7 years

I find the moral superiority of the 'thick-skinned' infuriating, even while I strive for greater resilience myself.

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