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My headcanon:
I think Sierra is a Twilight fan.
She has read the books and watched the movies at least twenty times.
She was #TeamJacob until he got feelings for a Fetus, and now she is #TeamAlice.
When on her honeymoon with Heather, she convinced her to watch Twilight with her.
Heather kept making fun of it because her taste in films is bad.
-Mod Bella
Ed culture is watching the great bell pepper-pickle-Nutella-cotton candy war between @just-w4nn4-b-th1n and @purpleskiesandcryingovercals play out.
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In your opinion(s), what, if any, are valid critiques of anti-fatphobia activism, and what are your responses to them?
I am probably going to give you a much more complicated answer than you were expecting, and I apologize for that.
First, if I may be honest: I have never heard a valid critique against fat acceptance as a whole. Every critique I have ever heard was either based in 1) a hatred of fatness and fat people, 2) an extreme misunderstanding of the point of fat acceptance or what fat acceptance actually is and does, or 3) the feeling that thin people should be included in fat acceptance too or that fat people don’t deserve our own movement. So I can’t take any of those critiques seriously or give them any weight.
However, there are valid critiques of fat acceptance as it currently exists, and I think they are worth exploring. I don’t really disagree with them.
1) Fat acceptance regularly prioritizes white people, able-bodied people, middle to upper-class people, cisgender, perisex, and other privileged people in the movement, and ignores intersections of size with race, class, and other factors.
2) Fat activists sometimes focus so much on debunking the idea that being fat is not unhealthy that they forget to say that being unhealthy is not a bad thing.
2.5) In fact, some even stress that yes, being unhealthy is bad and immoral and awful, but being fat doesn’t mean being unhealthy so if you’re healthy and fat then it’s okay. (Which. Yikes is that ableist.)
3) Fat acceptance prioritizes “acceptable fat” people with hourglass figures, very few stretch marks or other “imperfections,” etc., over fat people who look more like everyday fat people.
4) Fat acceptance often still prioritizes people of smaller weights and sizes over people with larger weights and sizes.
5) Some fat acceptance spaces allow thin people to be involved and prioritize their feelings and voices over fat people’s.
6) Sometimes men in fat acceptance spaces get ignored and their voices silenced, especially if they are otherwise marginalized.
7) There are a lot of people who seem to think fetishizing fat people is the same as being fat positive and pro fat acceptance, and so they treat fat people like a fetish in spaces meant to be safe spaces.
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- Mod Bella
This was left unfinished in our drafts and these issues are still so important and that we as a community still have work to do beyond just fighting fatphobia from outsiders.
This is Karma! She's an 18 year old French delinquent who prefers working out to actually going to school. She's played by Mod Bella!
Charity Update!
Hello everyone! We have a small announcement in terms of the charity we will be donating to. The mod team noticed that in terms of contributors based in the U.S. vs. ones based internationally, it is pretty much an even split. Our previous charity was based only in the U.S., so we decided to switch.
After some discussion we went with Blood:Water! If you would like to learn more about them and their mission you can take a look at their website! We appreciate all of the support you have given us so far and we will come out with more updates as the project moves along!
-Mod Bella
Meet the Mods!
MOD AQUA
Head Mod | Graphics | Layout | Printing | Shipping
Age: 20
Pronouns: Any!
Role: Head mod, shipping, printing, layout, graphics
Experience: Oh geez, I’ve been a part of a lot of zines (for the full list you can check here) and am helping mod a bang currently (for which I am also a graphics mod, check it out here). This is gonna be my first big project though! The zine I’ve headed before was a simple e-zine so here’s to new experiences! I do table at conventions and get my stuff for a big discount at a local printer (part of why I’ll be doing the printing and shipping) and I’m confident that they’ll be able to produce a quality zine that everyone can enjoy!
Why you love Invader Zim: Its just weird enough to be funny! I love the art style too, very uneasy-feeling. Though Enter the Florpus did re-design the characters so they’re more...dare I say appealing? Than the old tv show, a part of me misses the weird pastiness and grim feeling the tv show had.
Favorite Invader Zim Character(s): Dib!
MOD STAR
Finance | General
Age: 18
Pronouns: They/Them
Role: Finance and General
Experience: This is my first zine, but I have a lot of experience working with finances on and offline! I take monthly classes on payroll accounting and how to use websites like PayPal and Stripe, and have managed both my own commissions and several creators in the She-Ra fandom’s commissions.
Why you love Invader Zim: The humor is something that really resonates with me and Zim and Dib’s rivalry is so much fun to watch!
Favorite Invader Zim Character(s): Gir! He’s a funny pubby.
MOD BELLA
Social Media | General
Age: 20
Pronouns: She/Her
Role: Social Media Mod
Experience: I am currently a mod over at bat-famzine!
Why you love Invader Zim: I love invader zim because of its sense of humor and distinct art style!
Favorite Invader Zim Character(s): When I would watch invader zim as a kid my favorite was always Dib and that is still true till this day!
MOD RAD
General Organization
Age: 18
Pronouns: She/Her
Role: Organization/General Mod
Experience: I am currently an intern mod for the Girl Power! BNHA zine.
Why you love Invader Zim: I used to watch it as a kid. I remember really loving Gir and that love still exists to this day. The Enter the Florpus movie made me fall back in love and I am excited to be a part of a zine dedicated to IZ!
Favorite Invader Zim Character(s): Oh boy. I love all of my children. I would say I relate the most with Gaz, though.
MOD RACE
Intern
Age: 15 (16 in october)
Pronouns: They/He/Ey
Role: Intern Mod
Experience: This is my first zine, though I was in the minecraft collab arts n crafts!
Why you love Invader Zim: I grew up with it and a lot of good memories come with this show and I'm making even more memories today with it too!
Favorite Invader Zim Character(s): Tak...
Happy Pride from Marc0 and me!
Marc0′s shirt has the Demisexual flag on the front of his shirt (which my head is covering up lol) and the genderfluid flag on his sleeves, while I am wearing a Pansexual flag shirt!
Not to make you break character, but who are your fancasts for the Losers? The woman that you cast for Bev is absolutely gorgeous...
it’s all good! I definitely feel you on the bev fc, check out her insta to be blessed
Richie - Timur Simakov
Bill - Fabian Gray
Beverly - Bree Kish
Mike - Donald Glover
Ben - Zach Miko
Stan - Max Barczak
Eddie - Aidan Alexander
- mod bella
