Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Portrait of Ross in L. A. (1991)
175 pounds of multicolored candy as a “portrait” of the artist’s partner Ross Laycock, who died of AIDS that same year.
Ross’s ideal healthy body weight was 175 pounds.
Attendees of the exhibit were instructed to take one piece of candy each.The dwindling pile paralleled Ross’s body languishing from the disease.
Gonzalez-Torres also instructed that the pile be continually replenished so that Ross could be symbolically reborn again and again.
Thin privilege is not having memes show up all over your Facebook newsfeed that mock your body type. Thin privilege is not having it implied that your body type is so grossly offensive that it’s an illegal, arrestable offense.
So, I paint my nails pretty regularly these days. I also work as a barista/cashier pretty regularly these days. A few weeks back, I had a customer come in, a fairly typical, sheltered, suburban soccer mom, and she ordered a latte from me. She saw my brightly colored nails and said, “Wow, you’re so brave! My son asked me about painting his nails, and if it’s okay for boys to do that. Now I’ll tell him there’s a cool guy who does it too!” It was a nice moment, very cute.
Then, last week, she came in again, and said, “Hey, I’m so glad you’re here! I want you to meet someone!” She then brings her son forward, and says, “Okay sweetie, show him what you did!” And he throws his hands up, showing off his bright, sparkling blue nails. He shows them off, and I show mine off to him. He smiles. We fist bump.
Guys, I’ve only wanted to cry once at work before, and that was when someone ordered a large dry soy cappuccino on ice.
This time, though. This was a good cry.
noxi:
ok so i tried to find out what breed of cattle this is and i havent been successful but i found these two
and their names are texas tornado and johnny football
the pics are from this website
edit: they are apparently called Double Bred Composite Charolais (fancy ass cows)
HOOT BAIT
THEY DONT look real at all D:
omgg
Look at these adorable cows!
They have been SERIOUSLY groomed for showing, that much is clear!
i am concerned about the intellectual health of fatphobes. They spend all their time consuming ObesityEpidemic™-flavoured junk science. They’re clearly lazy, not bothering to put in any effort to do any research that might actually challenge their poor intellectual health. It’s not like there aren’t many opportunities to improve this health if they really wanted to; not only are there lots of Health At Every Size and Fat Acceptance activists around, but they could make use of the Internet and World Wide Web to find information that would improve their intellectual fitness. But no, that would be too much work. They would rather just take the lazy option, and consume the fatphobia of the mainstream media, and its violent propaganda about the ‘need’ for a WarOnObesity™. Apparently it’s too much effort for them to turn off the television and visit a local library to read some critical commentary about the highly processed information they’re being provided with - information that’s so highly processed, it’s often almost devoid of intellectual nutritional value.
Being smart and successful while fat
Thin privilege is not having to dread/worry about going to your own graduation celebration because your great-aunt will be there who will make a comment about how you’ve gained weight, have yet to lose weight, or how much bigger you are compared to all your other cousins.
Thin privilege is not having all your hard work and accomplishments of being first in the family to graduate from college be rendered meaningless because what’s the point of being smart and successful if you’re fat?
