Laurie says: Artistically speaking solarization more or less reverses blacks and whites. It’s actually a lot more complex. Originally the effect came from drastically over-exposed film, then it became a darkroom technique, and now it is a digital one as well. My friend Tee Corinne did all her work in darkroom solarization. This is her [...]

Debbie says: Fat activist Marilyn Wann is promoting two online petitions demanding that the airlines treat fat people reasonably. Here’s what she has to say: When a human being buys a coach ticket from any airline, I believe that person can reasonably expect having a comfortable and accessible place to sit down during the flight. [...]

Debbie says: From the BBC, we have this story of a mother who decided to look like her daughter. Twelve thousand British pounds and at least four surgeries later, she achieved her goal. This isn’t the world’s newest story. When I was 16, I met a mother and daughter who had had hers-and-hers nose jobs [...]

Laurie says: I’ve been wanting to write a lot more about my jewelry – designs, stones, techniques etc..  More or less, a loose informal jewelry diary.   I started realizing it when I wrote this post a while ago. Body Impolitic isn’t really the right place for it, so I’ve begun writing on live journal as [...]

Laurie and Debbie say: We’re the first to admit that fat people are powerful. But the United Kingdom’s popular tabloid, The Sun, is giving fat people more power than even we would have guessed. Scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the [...]

Laurie says: It’s good to be back. I got to visit spring in Seattle with all its delicate greens, have a lovely Norwescon and visit with friends. And my ammonite found a good home. My daughter Shayin pointed me at these amazing pieces of cat armor by Jeff de Boer: Jeff de Boer is a [...]

Marlene says: I like porn. I don’t like most porn, but I like it enough to seek out things I enjoy. As a sexual outsider (a dyke, a trans woman, a devout pervert, and a variety of other things), I rarely find porn that depicts anything resembling my actual sex life. My relationship with porn [...]

Debbie says: I was tired and outraged last night, and I didn’t say that the removal of Women En Large and Familiar Men, along with thousands of other titles with erotic or GLBT content from amazon.com’s indirect search functions was unlike their overall corporate policies and could have been something that was done too them. [...]

Debbie says: For technical and social (and vaguely religious) reasons, I’ve been largely out of touch for a couple of days. To my astonishment, I came back into touch to discover that amazon.com has rocked the LGBT and erotica worlds by making a complex decision that seems to affect all books by publishers with a [...]

Debbie says: I finished Our Daily Meds, by Melody Peterson, last week. Sometimes, I think I understand the scope of a social problem, until I read a detailed and well-researched account and realize that what I knew was just the tip of the iceberg. Usually, that’s because I just can’t be cynical enough to take [...]