Archive for the 'Papers' Category

You Mean You Chose to be Fat?: Body Image in a Virtual World

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I’d like to preface this article a little before you get to it. This was an idea I proposed in November or December to the Fat Studies panel chairs at the National Popular Culture Association/American Studies Association Conference that was held in March of 2008. The project itself began in January and I stopped collecting [...]

Virtual Love, Marriage, and Infidelity in the Land of Pixels

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

This is an off-topic blog post, so feel free to skip it if you aren’t interested!I haven’t posted an actual blog lately - it’s just been tacox3 stuff -  but I wanted to do something I’ve been meaning to do forever: I posted a paper I wrote and presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association/American [...]