Note: This page is a “living document.” As our lives and descriptions change, our corresponding mini-bios will also change, generally without notice. If you link to this page for any reason, be aware of that. You might want to quote any wording to which you specifically refer and note that the original document is subject to change.

Chrissy:

I stumbled across the Fat Acceptance Movement in early March 2008 and have since literally dunked myself in it. I am learning to accept myself, and am working on making myself healthier. I hope this blog will be a good outlet for me to not only track my progression through this movement, and document my discoveries and feelings, but also will open the eyes of those who read it. Whether or not anyone reads it…well that’s a different story.

I am big, beautiful, and happy with myself the way I am. No matter what my size ends up being, I’ve decided not to care. I am me, and if you can’t accept me the way I am, that’s just too bad.

And thus my warrior’s cry is thrown to the tree tops. Huzzah! Oh wow, you probably just asked yourself what are you getting yourself into…

I’m currently finishing up my Junior year in college. I just got back from spending six months studying abroad in Quito, Ecuador. I speak Spanish (though I don’t think I’m even close to fluent), and am passionate for international politics and human rights. Despite that (and the fact that I’m a political science major), I find myself particularly drawn to film, particularly documentary film production. I’m also a writer of poetry and plays, and am OBSESSED with Harry Potter.

I hope you all enjoy my blog, and please feel free to leave comments! Hope you don’t think I’m too crazy….

Jamie:

Hello, all!

My name is…well… I go by multiple names on the intarwebs, but my pen name is Llencelyn (from a book by Stephen Lawhead. Supposedly it means “whirlwind” in Gaelic). You can also call me Jamie B., since I sometimes use that for commenting on other sites, like Feministing.

I’m a fourth year physics major at Michigan Technological University. I plan to go on to do research in the field of high energy particle physics (probably something neutrino-related), and to be a professor.

Chrissy emailed me one day and asked if I’d like to be a contributor to Jiggly Bits. Of course I said yes! So I’d like to introduce myself a little bit.

I discovered feminism in summer ‘07. Since then, I’ve immersed myself in the whirlwind of activity that is the online progressive community. I started at Feministing and gradually branched out. I’m currently a devoted reader of The Angry Black Woman, Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose, Shakesville, Feministe, and, of course, Jiggly Bits!

I discovered the FA movement when I got linked to a feminism-related post of Kate Harding’s. I’d never heard of such a movement, and, being the body-privileged individual that I am, it had never occured to me that one might exist, either.

With my eyes freshly opened to oppression, I knew this was something I had to get involved in. How could I not? In the short months I’ve spent reading FA-related blogs, my eyes have been opened to new and wonderful ways of addressing body image, self-esteem, “health” vs. health, and much more. I love it, and I’m super happy that Chrissy has invited me to write with her!

I would like to apologize in advance for not being anywhere near as accomplished a writer as Chrissy, and for radically overusing parenthetical statements! Also, I’m much more about rage than thoughtful analysis, so… you know. Just a warning. ^_^