Krissy's zine tells us about the dangers of gastric bypass surgery and stomach staples and how they are often ineffective or even fatal! The zine goes on to explain how diets are sold to us as a product to "cure" fatness, ignoring various people's already healthy lifestyles at their size. It then explains ways for people to be good fat allies and supportive, ways that fat people are discriminated against, and various people's accounts of situations they've been in and the resolution that they've come to. Honestly, the parts about fat people dying from gastric bypass surgery kinda scared me but I thought the zine overall was very well researched and impressive. Let's debunk every scientific myth that is thrown at us!

Want to learn about how body size has little to do with how much you eat and how society fears and loathes fat people; scaring them into unhealthy attempts to lose weight? Krissy takes on corporate media and biased health institutions with the flair of fat activism. Interviews with FATASS cheerleaders and Marilyn Wann of Fat!so?; Yoga for Big Bodies, and lots of refuting of "facts" from mainstream news regarding "obesity" and health. My favourite items are a piece about Fat Activism in the '70's and a really fun ad for "Fat-ten-U Foods" from 1891 when a full figure was considered sexy and skinny girls were padding themselves for a more "acceptable" look. Fat activism goes hand in hand with anti racist work, feminism and queer power. So get this zine and love yourself...

Want to learn about how body size has little to do with how much you eat and how society fears and loathes fat people; scaring them into unhealthy attempts to lose weight? Krissy takes on corporate media and biased health institutions with the flair of fat activism.

This issue goes through Fat Claims and Fat Truths, an article from a UCLA sociologist about the over blown "Fat Epidemic", and a point list of things to think about regarding bodies and "15 Ways to Create a Body Positive World" - both which anyone involved in activism or anti-descrimination needs to read.

Want to learn about how body size has little to do with how much you eat and how society fears and loathes fat people; scaring them into unhealthy attempts to lose weight? This issue profiles a number of fat activists including zinester/map maker Stina (Chubbluv), a memorial to Heather McAllister, Kylie Lannigan's attempts to adopt a child, Krissy's own story of becoming a fat activism (dating back to '87!), an interview with anime-tor Sarah Perry! There are additional articles about the myth drug Alli (it makes you poop your pants and leaves a green oily stain wherever you sit and on your clothes!!), "lessons in fat history" (doctors knowing that diets are 95% ineffective but still prescribing them), and profiles of independent stores that sell cool clothes for fat people. Something anyone involved in activism or anti-discrimination should be reading!

Krissy Durden of Figure 8 waxes philosophical in this issue of Imaginary Life. We get a series of photos with large captions that each contain several thousand words. It's about occupied spaces and ghosts. It's about being the friend who remembers things because she wasn't doing drugs everyday. The kid who lived through the plane crash; the missed calls from relatives killed in 9/11; teenage love. While Figure 8 is punchy and rebellious, Imaginary Life is like taking a hot bubble bath while listening to Ella Fitzgerald.

Krissy of Figure 8 muses about death in this issue of Imaginary Life. The idea of living and leaving and what gets left behind. Both real death and metaphorical death are written in quiet and thoughtful way, woven around some nice old and nicely composed photographs. While Figure 8 is punchy and rebellious, Imaginary Life is like taking a hot bubble bath while listening to Ella Fitzgerald.

This is Krissy's story of growing up pretending to be a huge fan of the Bay City Rollers in an attempt to bond with girls her age and make friends. It goes on to discuss her life as a "fan" and how it affected these friendships; a huge exploration into the time period and the psychological efforts to try and find acceptance for a young kid growing up in a world full of celebrity worship. Maybe this explanation is a little too pragmatic...the zine is really personal.