You Don’t Have To Love Your Body To Love Your Life
My physical appearance isn’t so important to me that I can’t be happy in spite of it. I’m fat. The kind of fat I am depends on what side of fat you’re looking at me from. If you’re a thin person, I...
View Article44 Compelling Reasons To Stop Dieting Now
People don’t fail diets. Diets fail people. Diets simply don’t work. Worse yet, diets usually have the exact opposite effect you’re seeking. As a matter of fact, over 90% of people who go on a diet end...
View ArticleWhy Is It So Hard For Me To Ask For More As A Fat Person?
As a fat person, the thought that I’m already taking up too much space and that it would be selfish to ask for more is always in the back of my mind. I’m in my water exercise class, and it feels...
View ArticleHow To Protect Yourself From The Very Real Thing That Is Beauty Sickness
We’ve never had the privilege of living in a world where our appearance wasn’t viewed as our primary form of social capital. Hair and makeup, body glitter, eating right…on the bright side of beauty...
View ArticleI’m A Fat Camp Survivor
Food was no longer something that nourished our bodies. It was a reward for mastering control of them. I’m a survivor — of fat camp. I know it sounds like I’m exaggerating. After all, how terrible...
View ArticleHow A Haircut Changed My Life
I wanted to say that this was deliberately less cute, less likeable; that I’d spent years with hair that was trouble – a mask. I wanted to say I was done hiding behind girliness. “You have so much...
View ArticleYoung Women, Get Angry
Get angry at a culture that teaches you your appearance matters more than anything else and then smacks you around with a beauty standard you were never meant to meet. At times, our culture feels like...
View ArticleWhat I Learned About Feminism While Working At A ‘Breastaurant’
The notion seemed genius: women profiting from their own objectification. We were using the doggish nature of men against them, swindling them out of their money by over-charging for low quality food...
View ArticleHow The Way Doctors Approach Body Weight Is Killing Women
Most experts now agree that a combination of genetic, socioeconomic, and environmental factors can all lead to obesity, yet too many doctors are still treating it as an issue of willpower. TW: eating...
View ArticleCalling Me Fat Isn’t An Insult, It’s A Compliment
C’mon, it’s not even a creative insult. It almost always happens like this. I’m walking down the street and some guy honks his horn or shouts out of the side of his car. Or maybe he’s walking down the...
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