Hanne Blank


Hanne Blank is an American historian, writer, editor and public speaker. She has also edited and written erotica but is retired from that genre. Blank believes in civil rights in general and fat rights in particular. She says: "For me, as a progressive feminist, opposing the whole range of physical-body-based prejudices and stigmas is all of a piece. Fatness and fat rights happen to be two of my personal issues, so it's a topic I can speak to from the inside. But fat politics are not separate from my overall politics of inclusion and human value."

Biography

Hanne Blank was born in Northampton, Massachusetts and grew up in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area, becoming a classically trained musician and then a formally educated historian. As an independent scholar, her most recent post was as the 2004-2005 Scholar of the at Towson University, Maryland.
Ms. Blank is a former co-editor of and with Heather Corinna. She is a former associate editor of Sojourner: The Women's Forum, and has also written sex columns for The Boston Phoenix and Good Vibes Magazine.
As an instructor, she taught at the university level at Brandeis University, Tufts University and Whitworth College. As a musician, she was a Fellow of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and was the 1991 recipient of the George Whitefield Chadwick medal for work as a proponent of contemporary art music.
Her most recent book, the first revision of her 2000 title Big Big Love: A Sex and Relationships Guide for People of Size , was published by Celestial Arts in September, 2011.
Blank has recently accepted a teaching position at in Granville, OH.

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