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Illuminations
~~To show how inner beauty illuminates outter beauty! This will allow our ladies to meet in a fun friendly atmosphere. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PhatgirlzCincy2/

$3.00 cover  - Sun Oct 12, 2008 from 1-5

The Yadda Club
404 Pike St.
Covington, Ky 41011

We will be doing each other’s hair, make-up, and nails. This will save time for the photos and bring us closer together. We are asking that you bring your make-up, nail polish, and 1-2 pieces of lingerie. This will help provide a variety for the women to choose from. Bring your favorite dish and exchange recipes.

VENDORS:
The Sweet Spot, Pure Romance, Premier Designs, Mia Bella and more….

~Corbcn2 Photographer will be taking *FREE* photos of the ladies.

We will be doing two raffles. You can buy or earn tickets.

*Earn tickets for FREE by just doing the following:
5 tickets for showin up
10 tickets for each guest you bring
5 tickets for bringing make-up, nail polish, and lingerie
15 tickets for a covered dish

***Note for the MEN: Although this is a ladies only event men CAN come watch the game in the main bar but no peeking in on us.

We’re actively seeking YouTubers to participate in our celebration of the official Love Your Body Day. Keeping it real and simple, just sign up for youtube if you haven’t already, plugin your webcam and microphone, and respond to the following video - and YOU will be featured on sizepositivetv.com. But hurry! The deadline for uploading is October 14th at noon EST.

Wanna know more?

Size Positive TV and BBWAdultRadio is making a road trip to Indy for an event you don’t want to miss!!! And because we’ll be there, you don’t have to miss it. We’ll be broadcasting live via the interwebs bringing the party to you! If you’re in the area, make plans to be there with us and save a dance for me! 

PhatGirlzIndy along with Big Daddy’s Place Presents:
Slippery When Wet End of Summer Bash!!!

When: September 27th, 2008

Where: Grand View Hotel (Soon to be the Ramada Inn)
530 East Thompson Road (at the Corner of US 31 and Thompson Rd)
Indianapolis, Indiana
(317) 787-8341
Room Rates $50.00 plus tax!!!
(Must Mention PHAT)
All rooms near the indoor pool and hot tub!

Your $10.00 cover, will consist of:
*Pool & Hot tub party from 1-6pm BYOB no glass in pool or hot tub area
*Club Party in the Hotel Lounge 9pm-close No drinks in or out of the bar! !! Dress to Impress
*Late Night Pool Party (providing we book all 32 rooms) 1am-3am

WE ARE VERY EXCITED!!  We will be inviting, many other groups to join us that day and evening!!!!

THIS IS NOT THE PARTY TO MISS OUT ON!
Questions??? Contact us at
Lee Lee at SultryandBlond@ aol.com
Big Daddy (Jeff) at BigDaddy46234@ yahoo.com

We have also booked the hotel for New Years Eve.Details to follow soon!!! Make your reservations early!!

The fine print and just a few simple rules!! Please be considerate of other guests staying at the hotel.  You must clean up after yourself at the pool party.
Respect is a must.!!The hotel does have security and anyone caught breaking the law or Hotel Rules will be asked to leave immediately.

PhatgirlzIndy or Big Daddy’s Place will not be liable or responsible for your actions.

Otherwise, its going to be Indy’s best party yet!!!  With many more to come!!!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Big_Daddys_Place_Indy_Plus_Size_Party/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PhatGirlzIndy

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Miss Plus America Chenese Lewis speaks at the 2007 National NOW Conference about being a woman of size in Hollywood.

I wanted to share this particular video of Chenese speaking frankly about the lack of leading roles for plus size women. I admire women like Chenese who are trying to cut a path for herself and other big actresses to reach their dreams. But after hearing her insights about the same tired stereotypical roles she’s offered, I’m inclined to think it’s time for the size positive screenplay writers to arrive on the scene. Granted, the writers don’t do the casting…otherwise the role of Edna Turnblad in 2007’s film version of Hairspray, would have been played by a lovely fat actress instead of a man (John Travolta) in a fat suit. Just to clarify, Travolta did a decent job in the role, but clearly the role of a fat woman would have been more believable played by a fat woman. This makes me wonder if there is an unwritten rule in Hollywood that fat suits are simply more culturally acceptable than super sized women on the big screen?

I also find it interesting in Chenese’s speech when she talks about the mental and emotional stereotypes of fat women in the eyes of Hollywood. Perhaps it’s just the slap of reality that indeed, the masses believe we are sad and depressed, eating with careless abandon to ease our troubled souls and therefore to blame for our own misery. >insert eyeroll<  The folks who believe this and perpetuate these false ideas need only catch of glimpse of strong plus size women like Chenese to see their stereotypes don’t fit us all. See more videos of Chenese on her YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=cheneselewis or check out her official site http://www.cheneselewis.com/

Press Release

Hollywood NOW Celebrates Love Your Body Day, Real Women, With Host Mia Tyler In West Hollywood

Hollywood NOW, the local Chapter of the 41-year-old national organization working to bring women and men into full equality, welcomes the Hollywood community to Love Your Body Day 2007. Join Hollywood NOW Saturday October 20, from 6-10 pm, for the Flawless Calendar Launch Party at Here! Lounge in West Hollywood and Love Your Body Day will unfold Sunday, October 21, at West Hollywood’s Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park, from 12-4 pm. Admission is free.

Hollywood, CA, October 19, 2007 — Hollywood NOW, the local Chapter of the 41-year-old national organization working to bring women and men into full equality, welcomes the Hollywood community to Love Your Body Day 2007.

Join Hollywood NOW Saturday October 20, from 6-10 pm, for the Flawless Calendar Launch Party at Here! Lounge in West Hollywood. Here! Lounge is located at 696 N. Robertson Blvd., at the intersection of Robertson Blvd. & Santa Monica Blvd, in West Hollywood. Mia Tyler & the featured calendar models will be on hand to sign calendars and take pictures. All community members, 21+ years old, are welcome to participate in the event. Admission is free.

The Love Your Body community celebration will unfold Sunday, October 21, at West Hollywood’s Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park, from 12-4 pm. Admission is free. Plummer Park is located at 7377 Santa Monica Blvd., between Vista St. and Martel Ave., in West Hollywood. Love Your Body Day is open to all ages, and will be hosted by Mia Tyler.

“It is such a joy to know events like this are happening in Hollywood,” says Hollywood NOW’s Love Your Body Day host Mia Tyler. “Because the entertainment industry is often implicated as the culprit for unreasonable and unattainable standards of beauty, it is important for the Hollywood community to encourage and celebrate a healthy body image for women, and I am excited to be part of the celebration.” Love Your Body Chairperson Chenese Lewis, herself a former Miss Plus America, has dedicated her efforts on both the local and national levels to advocating a healthy body image for women, and celebrating women of all shapes & sizes. To learn more about her work with Hollywood NOW’s Love Your Body activism, go to www.LoveYourBodyDay.com.

Produced by Chenese Lewis Productions, LLC, the weekend’s festivities will kick off Saturday evening with a true Hollywood party at Here! Lounge to celebrate the launch of the Flawless Calendar, produced by Chenese Lewis. Leading women championing the cause for a healthy body image for all women will be on hand to toast the occasion.

Continuing on Sunday, Love Your Body Day will be a community celebration, offering entertainment; complimentary massages & makeovers; and vendor booths. Host Mia Tyler will welcome the various singers, actors, dancers, comediennes, and spoken word artists to the party. Tyler, daughter of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & half-sister to Liv Tyler, is an accomplished plus-size model and actress, and wants everyone to realize that we are beautiful in our own ways. SkorchMagazine.com will be staging their plus-size model search at the event. Attendees will have the opportunity to talk with representatives from the magazine, and compete to be Skorch’s signature model for the new clothing line, MEWV. The pinnacle of the festivities - the “Real Women” Fashion Show - will begin at 2 pm. Models of all shapes and sizes will be flaunting the styles of various plus-size designers and retailers.

Love Your Body Day attendees are expected to be highly diverse, wildly talented, and incredibly beautiful. Men will be welcomed with love and respect, though the focus of the celebration will be the beauty - inside and out - of real women.

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. NOW has 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since its founding in 1966, NOW’s goal has been to take action to bring about equality for all women. NOW works to eliminate discrimination and harassment in the workplace, schools, the justice system, and all other sectors of society; secure abortion, birth control and reproductive rights for all women; end all forms of violence against women; eradicate racism, sexism and homophobia; and promote equality and justice in our society.

In its first two years, the Hollywood Chapter of NOW has brought a new face to feminism and tackled contemporary issues facing all women, including healthy body image, safety, and peace. “There’s a lot of confusion surrounding the idea of feminism today,” says Chapter President, 25-year-old Lindsey Horvath. “Hollywood NOW works to identify and address the concerns relevant to women today. Chenese’s leadership for Love Your Body Day is just one way we show how feminist activism brings women together to create the world we all envision for ourselves, the world we know is possible for women.”

I’ll be the first to admit that at least a portion of the weight I carry is the direct result of my love for cooking. I love to take recipes I like and make them my own by adding or substituting ingredients to suit my own taste. But most of all, I love to cook for the people I love. It something I’m pretty darn good at, and I should be good at it, I’ve been cooking since I was 9. (my first dish was cornbread the way mom makes it)

I’d love to have some submissions from my online pals cooking their favorite dishes and I plan to show off a few of my own when the studio is complete and my house is in order. In the meantime, I’m featuring a few of my YouTube friends who already have great dishes I like.

My first feature cook is Princess Diana with her awesome Chicken Rollatini! I love it when she and her husband Frankie get cookin in the kitchen. I think you will enjoy too. Visit her channel on youtube and subscribe. http://www.youtube.com/user/PrincessDiana161  

I am sad to announce that the Bygies are postponed due to logistics, lack of time from some of the committee and other commitments. The Bygies will happen at some point, with Darrenteed Productions as producer or with someone else. We will keep you posted.

Also, we had planned to officially launch SPTV the weekend of the Bygies with our live broadcast of the awards and fashion shows. We have decided to push up our launch date instead to October 4th, 2008 as we will be covering a tri-state BBW event in IN, September 27th and will be gathering interviews and party footage to air. You’re welcome to join us there for a great time and celebration!
PhatGirlzIndy along with Big Daddy’s Place End of Summer Bash!!!

When: September 27th, 2008 Where: Grand View Hotel (Soon to be the Ramada Inn)
520 East Thompson Road
(located at: the Corner of US 31 and Thompson Road)
Indianapolis, Indiana
Room Rates $50.00 plus tax!!!
(Must Mention the code “PHAT” to get the discount rate )
All near the indoor pool and hot tub!
You can start booking as early as Weds afternoon!!!

Your $10.00 cover, will consist of:

Pool & Hot tub party from 1-6pm
BYOB no glass in pool or hot tub area

Dance Party in the Hotel Lounge
9pm-close
No drinks in or out of the bar! !!

Late Night Pool Party
1am-3am

…without a double portion of Joy Nash! Not only has she brought a phenomonal amount of attention to size acceptance but she has taken the lead in busting fat myths with her positive attitude and cleverly informative videos on youtube. Her first video posted to YouTube fittingly titled, “A Fat Rant” is still racking up views. At this writing it has been viewed 1,291,793 times. She is an accomplished actress as well. I’ve been a subscriber of her youtube channel for more than a year and I’m always excited to see more of her work. Entertaining and witty, Joy Nash is the real deal: a plus size woman living her dreams loudly and proudly. I won’t be satisfied until I see this gal with her own TV show.

This is the latest of her “Fat Rants” and one that speaks to so many issues faced by plus size women. I particularly enjoyed this one which features Chenese Lewis, a rising plus size starlet in her own right. I hope we’ll see more dynamic duo projects with these ladies in the near future.

Another of Joy’s projects I thoroughly enjoy is called “The Fruit and the Fly.” Fruit & Fly is a gay themed sketch show co-starring and co-written by Joy Nash and Michael Mullen. It is brilliant and I’m dying to see more! http://www.myspace.com/fruitandfly

One of my favorite TV shows both because the content interests me and a variety of body sizes is represented is SciFi’s “Ghost Hunters.” I’ve watched the show since its first airing in 2004 and enjoyed the many investigations in the homes of real people…again, of all sizes. The TAPS team is led by Jason and Grant, the organization’s founders. One thing I sincerely appreciate about the show is how the team members are selected based upon only their skills and ability to work with the team. You know, the way we’d like the world and all jobs to be. There are a variety of sizes of both women and men represented on the show and the camera doesn’t avoid the midsections of any of them while filming. Fat, size, and weight are simply not issues, it seems hunting ghosts and getting the job done is the only focus. I love it! If you have an interest in paranormal investigation or would like to see a glimpse of size normality in the media, I highly recommend Ghost Hunters and I’ve included a few clips for your viewing pleasure.

Many thanks to James for posting these clips for your enjoyment. It is so thrilling to see people of size busting myths and stereotypes for a television audience! I especially enjoyed seeing how these ladies didn’t allow society’s view of fat people stand in the way of their dreams of successes. These clips will also be added to the rotation at www.sizepositivetv.com