The Big Fat Carnival! - Call For Submissions
| January 12th, 2006[Bumped to the top!]
I’m now taking submissions for the First Edition of The Big Fat Carnival. If you have a blog and you’re sympathetic to the cause, please consider linking to this post!
The Big Fat Carnival is a carnival for collecting some of the best blog posts regarding fat pride; fat acceptance; critiques of anti-fat bigotry, attitudes and research; celebration of images of fat people; practical difficulties of being fat; fat love (queer and otherwise); feminist views of fat and fat acceptance; the health at every size movement (HAES); and whatever else each edition’s editor feels fits into the theme.
(But please note, The Big Fat Carnival is not a place to advocate weight-loss diets, weight loss surgery (WLS), or feederism.)
The first edition of The Big Fat Carnival will be hosted by Ampersand on “Alas” on Tuesday, February 7th. Please read the call for submissions, and submit your posts to Ampersand via email or via this webform. The deadline for submissions is Sunday, February 5th.
Since this is the first edition, feel free to submit not only new posts, but also any old posts you’ve written - or that other folks have written - that you consider particularly loaded with merit.
And if you’d like to host a future edition of The Big Fat Carnival on your own blog, please email Ampersand and we’ll get you hooked up.
January 12th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
The Big Fat Carnival has a call for submissions.
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January 13th, 2006 at 4:32 am
Big Fat Carnival: The Big Fat Carnival is a carnival for collecting some of the best blog posts regarding fat pride; fat acceptance; critiques of anti-fat bigotry, attitudes and research; celebration of images of fat people; practical difficulties of being fat; fat
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January 13th, 2006 at 7:14 am
This sounds great, I can’t wait to read what you come up with. The Carnival of Fat sounds good to me, I admit that the original title does sound like Mardi Gras, but there’s nothing wrong with a good party. Are you sure you can’t make it bi-daily instead? :-)
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January 13th, 2006 at 8:58 am
Write your Big Fat Blog Posts
Ampersand over at Alas, A Blog has put out a call for submissions for the first edition of the brand new, bi-monthly Big Fat Carnival, which is happening on Tuesday, February 7th.
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January 13th, 2006 at 9:10 am
This sounds like a great idea I will have to look through my blog so see what I have to offer.
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January 13th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
I guess I dont really understand what this is. I mean I have some some pretty fat-positive posts over on my blog but for the most part, my blog is just a personal thing that covers a wide range of topics. Is this for individual blog posts or for submissions of entire blogs that focus on fat issues?
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January 13th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Submissions should be of individual blog posts, not entire blogs. :-) Please feel free to submit posts of yours, if you want to.
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January 14th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
[...] Its rare that I get really excited about a blog topic. But I couldn’t help but login in and spread the word about Ampersand’s call for submissions of the first edition of The Big Fat Carnival. My blog is pretty new so I don’t think I’ve written on the topic yet. But seeing as to how my blog is all about anti-oppression, you’d better believe I’ll be getting a post up soon. Here’s some more info about the project: The Big Fat Carnival is a carnival for collecting some of the best blog posts regarding fat pride; fat acceptance; critiques of anti-fat bigotry, attitudes and research; celebration of images of fat people; practical difficulties of being fat; fat love (queer and otherwise); feminist views of fat and fat acceptance; the health at every size movement (HAES); and whatever else each edition’s editor feels fits into the theme. [...]
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January 14th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
please consider linking to this post! The Big Fat Carnival is a carnival for collecting some of the best blog posts regarding fat pride; fat acceptance; critiques of anti-fat bigotry, attitudes and [...] Continue reading at Alas, a blog … posted9:51 am at Alas, a blog
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January 14th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
For those who are not sure what carnivals are, check out these (and the links within):
http://borazivkovic.blogspot.com/2005/05/meta-carnival.html
http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2006/01/on-hosting-blog-carnivals.html
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January 17th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
overweight person causes people to be more likely to evaluate you in a negative way–up to 22 percent more, according to a University of Liverpool study. Now that is fucked. [fat] p.s. There is a call for submissions for the Big Fat Carnival over atAlas, a Blog. Submissions about all aspects of the fatosphere (hah!) are welcome, although “…please note, The Big Fat Carnival is not a place to advocate weight-loss diets, weight loss surgery (WLS), or feederism.”
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January 18th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
on a blog that is new to me, Metrokitty. I’m still wading through the carnival (it’s a big issue!) and having a grand ol’ time reading it. You should, too. Speaking of carnivals, I’ve been meaning to link to thecall for submissions for the first Carnival of Fatty Goodness.
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January 26th, 2006 at 5:02 am
1. An interesting essay on The State of the F-Word. Any essay that contains the sentence “Fat is like a killer clown that may honk a horn at you” is worth reading, in my estimation. 2. The awesome Ampersand is hosting a Big Fat Carnival where you can nominate your favorite fat-positive blog posts. (Even from this very blog if you have any favorite posts. I personally will be hunting through the archives of Fatty McBlog, because those girls are fabulous. And
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January 28th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
as well make the change now while I’m thinking of it. [As I intend this to be my bloggy catch-up weekend, I may be making a few more adjustments which I’ll update here, but first I need to finish my regular blogroll reading, write submissions for boththe Big Fat Carnival and Ginger’s and Kathy’s And They Cook, Too fundraiser for DWB, do my Liberal Coalition Top Ten blogaround, start perusing all the Best New Blog Koufax nominees, and catch up on Carnival of the Feminists founder Natalie Bennett’s
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January 28th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Ampersand at Alas, a blog, is hosting the firstBig Fat Carnival: The Big Fat Carnival is a carnival for collecting some of the best blog posts regarding fat pride; fat acceptance; critiques of anti-fat bigotry, attitudes and research; celebration of images of fat people; practical difficulties of being fat; fat
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January 29th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
This was forwarded to us - looks great!
But not sure if our zine articles are eligible or not? ElegantPlus.com *does* have a blog, but honestly most of our articles and postings come out on the website portal or through our mailing lists. I’ll rummage around and see what we have that might be a good submission, but please get back to me about what is and is not eligible!
I’ll forward the call to a few of our mailing lists for you as well.
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January 30th, 2006 at 10:28 am
[...] Just a little advertisement. http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/01/12/the-big-fat-carnival-call-for-submissions/ [...]
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January 31st, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Ampersand is starting a new carnival, theThe Big Fat Carnival: The Big Fat Carnival is a carnival for collecting some of the best blog posts regarding fat pride; fat acceptance; critiques of anti-fat bigotry, attitudes and research; celebration of images of fat people; practical difficulties of being fat; fat
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May 29th, 2006 at 7:51 am
I’ve got a handful. Do you want them copy/pasted, or just the individual links?
Roberta
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May 29th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Roberta, please follow this link and use the form there to submit the URLs. The deadline for the current (third) edition is June 3rd, so send them soon! Thanks!
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May 29th, 2006 at 11:13 am
Awesome; I’m on it!
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