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Posted on September 15, 2010  by  Kate Harding
Doesn’t that headline sound nicer than this?
But yeah, it basically means the same thing. Full details and notes on the future are available at kateharding.info.
Thank you so much to everyone who’s been a part of this community for the last three years. So much.
Posted in Announcements
Call for Participants: Size Acceptance Survey
Posted on June 10, 2010  by  Kate Harding
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Posting this on behalf of Michaela — if you have any questions, please contact her. — Kate
Hi, my name is Michaela A. Null, and I am a doctoral student in Sociology at
Purdue University. I am doing a study about the embodiment of size-accepting fat
women, with attention to the ways in which gender, race, sexual orientation, and
body size intersect.
I am currently looking for individuals who are interested in volunteering to
participate in my study. If you are interested in volunteering to participate in
an interview, I ask that take an electronic informational survey, which will
take approximately 5 minutes. Please go here and complete the
informational survey. After all survey data has been collected, participants
will be selected for interviews, which will be conducted in-person, by phone, or
via internet chat, and will last between an hour and an hour and a half.
Participation is voluntary and participants must be at least 18 years old.
This project has been approved by my university’s Institutional Review Board,
which protects human subjects of research. I will provide confidentiality to all
volunteers and participants will be referred to by a pseudonym in all research
documents.
If you have any questions regarding this study, you can contact me at
mnull@purdue.edu. For more information on me, you can access my university
profile here . You can also contact Professor Eugene Jackson, Assistant Professor of Sociology
at Purdue University, at jacksone@purdue.edu.
Sincerely,
Michaela A. Null, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, Purdue University
Posted in Announcements
Guest Blogger Elysia: Evo Psych and Icky Girls
Posted on June 9, 2010  by  Kate Harding
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Friend of Shapely Prose Elysia (who writes the blog Born That Way) is an evolutionary biologist, and she had some choice words for the latest dude to use evolutionary psychology as an explanation for why he believes seriously douchey things about women. Please give Elysia a warm welcome. — Kate
My friend Sweet Machine brought a recent post by Amanda Hess to my attention.  In her essay, Ms. Hess discusses a blog entry on the Scientific American Mind website, written by one Dr. Jesse Bering. Once you’ve read her post, come back here to see me talk about how good (and bad) science can be totally skewed by reporters.  Even scientists.  Just so we