Fifteen for Section 15, #3 Written accounts of Barbara Ann Scott, the 1947 and 1948 European and World...
The Runners (1907): Leaky Hegemony
Fifteen for Section 15, #2 The City of Toronto has many great archival images of sport, but this...
Fifteen for Section 15 (& Nine for IX)
This summer ESPN released nine documentaries about women’s sport, in honour of the thirtieth anniversary of Title IX....
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Issue 30.1
An image from one of my projects is featured on the cover of the current issue of the...
Why I’m not surprised by the Geoffrey Miller Twitter controversy
Earlier this week Geoffrey Miller, a Stanford-educated NYU lecturer with a permanent appointment at the University of New...
Ethics of “Obesity Epidemic” to be Examined at International Workshop
A group of 20 international experts on obesity will gather in Kitchener-Waterloo on the weekend of October 20-21,...
Betty Draper Joins Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers (WW) was created by Jean Nidetch, a self-described “fat housewife.” Nidetch felt embarrassed and ashamed about...
International Women’s Day
I am preparing a talk for International Women’s Day (IWD) on fat activism. Why does it exist and...
The Fat Studies Journal, vol. 1, 1.
The first issue of The Fat Studies Journal is now available in print and online. I’ve contributed a...
Jane, Again: Fonda’s ‘third act’ and a return to aerobics
Given my frequent posts on exercise and list of publications on aerobics, you’ll likely be unsurprised to know I...