author: may friedman

Growing Up Transnational: Identity and Kinship in a Global Era

... Andrea Levy's young female protagonists are not exempt from racial prejudice and hostility, which create the context for their own form of transnational sensibility, of living on shifting borders. With the exception of Small Island, Levy's ...

Mommyblogs and the Changing Face of Motherhood

... read. I am drawn into other people's stories and see the ways that such ... online. Such an approach follows on the thinking of Paul John Eakin (1999) who suggests that “all identity is relational, and that the definition of autobiography ...

Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice

... Roxane Gay's (2017) Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. An individual in a Fat Studies Facebook group indicated: I haven't read it, but I understand it's problematic in the sense that she attributes her weight to disordered eating, stemming ...

Body Stories: In and Out and With and Through Fat

... sex with me? Am I really that different? I believe that the couching of BBW pornography as a kink or niche category contributes to these sorts of beliefs, and it also makes me feel that the type of sex I have, as a woman of size, is ...

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