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Lonie McMichael

Lonie McMichael

About

Lonie McMichael has wanted to be a writer since age 3.

For many years she practiced her trade as a technical writer in the high tech industry. After going to graduate school, she found her calling in fat studies, exploring the fat individual’s experience. Graduating with a Ph.D. in technical communication and rhetoric, she wrote her dissertation on the medical rhetoric surrounding the “obesity epidemic” and how such rhetoric legitimizes fat prejudice—topics which have become two separate books, Talking Fat and Acceptable Prejudice? (the latter to be published by Pearlsong Press in 2013).

She is currently teaching professional and technical writing at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and working on her third book about things fat.

Dangerous Alliance

Dangerous Alliance

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<p>United Nations’ sanctions are crippling North Korea. China has turned her back on her malevolent partner. The North Korean military machine is crumbling, unable to function. Oil reserves are minimal and the government seeks new alliances.Cargo and tourist ships are disappearing along the Somali and Kenyan coastline at an alarming rate. Speeches abound, but inaction emboldens Al-Shabab to seek their next prize: Kenya. The terror organization controls land but requires weapons.Bedlam Bravo team leader Colonel Trevor Franklin (Ret.) leads the small international team into East Africa. Tempers flare as the team is embroiled in a political quagmire. The axis must be stopped to avert an international crisis but at what cost?Proudly published by Solstice Publishing</p>

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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">&quot;...a useful introduction to a burgeoning movement...will make readers question their attitudes about overweight people.&quot;</span><br /><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>Publishers Weekly</strong></span></span></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><strong><em>&quot;Acceptable Prejudice? Fat, Rhetoric and Social Justice</em></strong> is an ideal book for people new to the concept of fat acceptance. McMichael writes a book that will answer all questions about this movement; she describes and explains the aesthetic and psychological issues surrounding the movement as well as its political, academic and health manifestations. Thus, this book is a veritable encyclopedia that explains the what, when, why and how of fat acceptance in ways palatable to both the serious scholar and the curious layperson. If you have anything to do with fat acceptance, <strong><em>Acceptable Prejudice</em></strong> should have a place on your bookshelf.&quot;<br /><strong>Erec Smith, Ph.D.</strong><br /> Professor of Rhetoric, Fat acceptance blogger</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">&quot;Prejudices can only appear acceptable so long as we fail to see them (and their connnections to each other) for their true impact in our lives. Lonie McMichael clearly exposes how weight prejudice interacts with racism, sexism, classism, ageism, and healthism—and how a wholehearted challenge to the former also necessarily addresses all of the ways we're excluded.&quot;</p> <p align="center"><strong>Marilyn Wann</strong><br /> author of <strong><em>Fat!So?</em></strong></p>