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• To get in the water, to swim, was to strip down to a bathing suit and gave me nowhere to hide.
• As my breasts grew, hips widened, belly expanded, it got harder and harder to find my freedom in water, unless I was alone.
• It is as if the weight I am carrying has been cancelled by the lift of the water.
• It is as if the weight I am carrying has been cancelled by the lift of the water.

Fat bias

• Fat people face myriad challenges in their day-to-day life, from the well-documented discrimination on airline travel and public transport, to the size bias from clothing manufacturers.
• It can be extremely difficult for fat people to access health care where their weight doesn’t become the only thing that doctors focus on.
• Society’s anti-fat bias is so pervading, fat people are taught to hate themselves and crave smaller bodies.
• There are also intersections within the fat community, which means that while I consider myself a fat person, I am a straight-sized fat or “a small fat”.
• Read more:
  A big fat fight: the case for fat activism

Breaking down fatphobia

• The books I’ve found in the body of fat writing use data and research, coupled with some anecdotes, to break down internal and external fatphobia.
• Direct essays, where Kneen unpacks an aspect of their life or an experience, are often followed by more “creative” chapters where the writing is more experimental.
• Sometimes the reader is pulled right in close to Kneen’s feelings in these sections – and the affect is powerful.
• Their book does more than just share experiences, it leads the reader through a life: the good, the bad, the complex and the profoundly beautiful.
• The dugong becomes a repeated motif in the book: why did he take such a liking to Kneen?

Burlesque is (not) for every body

• For Kneen, burlesque classes have helped them to be able to look in the mirror and like what they see.
• The cover quotes are from impressive literary names, but no one on the list is fat.
• There are conversations where well-meaning friends make horrific jokes about their weight, where their mother puts them on a diet.
• And I found beauty in the large body – and joy in the way Kneen’s story joins the growing body of books about the fat experience.

• Tara Calaby, whose novel is based on research, draws on these voices and writes in between the gaps, or at the interstices, of historical evidence.
• Madness stripped away the niceties, that was all: the base drives of fear and hunger and wrath and lust were simply more visible here.
• Madness stripped away the niceties, that was all: the base drives of fear and hunger and wrath and lust were simply more visible here.
• Read more:
  Girl, Interrupted interrogates how women are 'mad' when they refuse to conform – 30 years on, this memoir is still important

Women’s secrets

• Together they supply Melbourne’s professional middle class and elites with stationery: inks, paper, pens and ledgers.
• The book opens with reference to the “noise and bustle of Elizabeth Street”.
• While she possibly considers herself “plain” when judged alongside Melbourne’s society women and their fashionable dresses, Charlotte is a strong character with considerable presence.
• Charlotte and Flora experience freedom by spending time together dressed as young men, camping in the bush east of Melbourne.
• Read more:
  Trans people aren’t new, and neither is their oppression: a history of gender crossing in 19th-century Australia

Darkest moments and recovery

• Charlotte is arrested by police, then hospitalised, where she is observed by doctors.
• Charlotte becomes increasingly aware of the dynamics of the wards and the personalities of doctors and attendant nursing staff.
• Calaby describes the asylum’s daily routine, such as menus, the gendered work regime for patients, and the hopeful intercession of visitors and advocates.
• Some doctors were sympathetic figures who worked for the recovery of patients.
• Read more:
  Hidden women of history: Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian undercover journalist who went inside asylums and hospitals

Constraint and resistance

• Her sinuses stung, her eyes watered; it felt like the tube must surely pass into her brain.
• She tried to struggle, but the women held her tightly: she could move only her head.
• Her sinuses stung, her eyes watered; it felt like the tube must surely pass into her brain.
• And it’s a hopeful story about love and courage – which suggests alternative futures for women seeking independence from marriage and social norms.

• Dremio , the easy and open data lakehouse, today announced the integration of cutting-edge generative AI capabilities into its platform.
• Dremio is ensuring easy self-service analytics—with data warehouse functionality and data lake flexibility—across customer cloud and on-premises data.
• In addition to Text-to-SQL, which is available today, automatic correction of SQL queries is coming soon to further increase SQL development velocity.
• By leveraging generative AI, Dremio automatically learns the intricate details of users' data, and then produces descriptions of datasets, columns and relationships, eliminating the need for manual cataloging.

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• Broadnet has over 60,000 customers internationally, making the company an ideal partner to penetrate the U.S. marketplace for Text-to-Pay, 2-way SMS and a suite of SMS tools.
• The Partnership will strengthen AppTech’s sales and distribution efforts and expand the company’s market share domestically by enabling AppTech to offer competitive SMS rates and innovative new solutions.
• In addition, the Partnership will allow AppTech to embed its Text-to-Pay solution into Broadnet’s Easy Paperless solution.