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Foucault and Stacey Bias’ “12 Good Fatty Archetypes”
Brilliant. Plus comics.
In her blog post, Stacey Bias discusses how fat bodies are morally evaluated, often along the lines of how productive or disciplined they are. Are they powerful bodies that serve an economic or useful purpose? Or, bodies being worked towards a body more socially valued body type? This post does a good job of illustrating what Foucault states in The Body of Condemned: the body is invested with power relations. That is, the body is valued according to it’s capacity for labor. Even when we discuss health, what we’re alluding to is the ability to contribute the most to the economy, and society appreciates the symbolic expressions of a laboring subject.
Student
No matter what sort of bureaucratic nightmare I have to suffer to work as a professional writing tutor, the frustrations pale next to the exciting, multi-talented students that I get to support and challenge. I have had an extra vibrant string of students this week--sociological studies on Michael Jackson, human geography of Tanzania, critical analyses… Continue reading Student
Tutor
I'm trying to not get wildly upset at the SCCC administrators about their totally useless tutor training. The most difficult part of my grumpy energy is that I don't even know who to direct my comments towards; everyone I've tried to communicate with has pointed me to someone else. It almost feels as if they… Continue reading Tutor
Nature
I've been both privileged and reckless enough to visit several countries on three continents. I've slept on the edge of the Sahara with camels and desert cats and I've grinded & thumped to wild house music in a Cold War bomb bunker in Prague. I once drove up the east coast to Montreal and back… Continue reading Nature
NC
Made a new friend at work the other night. He was very well dressed, and strolled in bragging about the East Coast. I knew immediately that we would be friends. Upon further conversation, we discovered that we were both from North Carolina, that his family lived in Salisbury, and that his father was also called… Continue reading NC
Piece
So I think I'm writing an essay--or a series of essays--but I keep calling it a collection of prose poems. At what point to I have to admit to myself that I might just be writing prose? Prose terrifies me. Can't I just cling like a sloth to my poet moniker forever? Does this contradict my… Continue reading Piece
Service
The American service industry rightfully gets a lot of grief: low pay, discrimination galore, and physical labor without any of the prestige found in other nations. However, for writers and other artists, service industry work can be something of a godsend. Not only are the schedules much more forgiving and even flexible (other workers can often… Continue reading Service
Franny Choi
This poem rips and tears. A must-read. To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street by Franny Choi : Poetry Magazine. Glad Poetry magazine is printing some interesting work. I cancelled my subscription last year because everything they printed was garbage.
Jesse Rice-Evans 