Write for DDP!

Originally posted on Disrupting Dinner Parties:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS- please share widely! Are you interested in writing for DDP? We’re looking to expand our writer and editor pool. We’re an awesome group of people who care about intersectional social justice, with a (very not exclusive) focus on gender equality. We also write about racial justice,…

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Foucault and Stacey Bias’ “12 Good Fatty Archetypes”

Originally posted on Everyday Social Theory:
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…

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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

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