“Even your voice sounds fat.” “I’m just worried about your health.” “It’s hard to believe someone like you actually exercises.” These ...
I am forever wondering what's happening in the minds of the people around me. I also admit I am so guilty of the jealousy that comes from not being the skinny one in the room. It's not that I want to be YOU... it's just there's so many things I think you don't have to worry about.
I started writing about my body. My inbox filled with the hate of a thousand misogynistic men -- and at least a few dozen women who seemed less angry with my writing itself, more angry that they were fighting to attain a size that was supposed to make them happy, but didn't.
Do you know what happens when you make grand plans to take part in a boudoir photo shoot and share your photos with the world?
This messaging -- that unless you drop the baby weight, hide your stretch marks, tone up the loose skin, and meticulously maintain your vagina you are the worst kind of slacker -- is beyond demoralizing, it's downright dangerous.
Congratulations go out to Ashley Graham for landing the cover of Sports Illustrated, becoming the first plus-size model to do so. Yay! Happy-danci...
I want to live in a world where it's not radical for a woman to like her body. Where it's not brave for a woman to wear a bikini. Where it's not newsworthy to be fat and happy or fit or healthy. But, unfortunately we're not there yet.
Brands have, in recent years, begun to perpetuate the notion that the products they sell can help us love our bodies and, by a false equivalence, ourselves. Women shouldn't need makeup or lingerie to feel sexy. More importantly, they shouldn't need to feel sexy in the first place.
The weight loss industry likes to pretend it's possible and healthy for anyone and everyone to be thin. But, as movements like Health At Every Size an...
Things that matter right now: I'm fat. No really, that's the most important thing. Yes, I am also intelligent, snarky, kind, radical, compassionate...
"This is for all the people who have spent their entire life feeling horrible about their bodies." That's how writer and activist Jes Baker introduces...
I can't accept the plus-size body I was living in because it was a diseased and uncomfortable vessel. It has less to do with my looks and more to do with the quality of life. Not accepting my 300-pound body didn't mean I was a bad person or that I hated my body--it just meant my body needed to change.
Amy Pence-Brown just stood up to body shaming by stripping down in public. On August 29, the feminist writer and fat activist stood in the middle of ...
"No shaming please. No hate speech please." That's what was written in the About section in a new "skinny acceptance" campaign called Project Harpoon ...
Yes, I am fat, but that is my business. My health is not up for debate, and unless you are willing to live my life, you have no right to judge me.
Summer is the time for traveling into the forest to hike, but for many of us, taking on a hike can be emotionally and physically challenging.
People are often baffled when they see happy fat people. And when you add in the idea that we are not addicted to dieting or working out or obsessed with the notion that we should become some thin version of ourselves, well, that really throws the shamers and haters for a loop.
This is my call for airlines to make their seats larger, so fat people can travel without experiencing shame, humiliation, or discomfort. Everyone deserves to fly without enduring these hardships and it's time that we start talking about it.
The deal with "body image work" that we all need to get hip to, and that I hope mental health professionals will discuss with their clients in more depth as time goes on, is that loving our bodies as they are today requires a commitment to being proudly ourselves in spite of potential judgments by others.
For women, 2014 was a year of great steps forward -- and unfortunate setbacks. One area where there was much, much more celebration than disappointmen...
"Our bodies... hungry tongues and heavy breathing... baby, please... do not rub my belly." So implores Yesika Salgado in her slam poem "How Not To ...
I live at the intersection of sexism and fatphobia. This is my daily reality, so in all honesty, I expected the backlash I received. It's what keeps many fat women quiet. But I'm here to give all of us a voice. I will not be silenced.
When people assume fat people are lazy for not figuring it out, I wish I could prove just how much MORE energy I spent on trying to become smaller, more than I did on all of my other activities combined. And only a fat person knows what I'm talking about.
Because fat girls aren't supposed to take pleasure in our bodies or even consider showing other people what they look like, there is a lot of sh*t that can hit the fan. Mostly caused by other people not knowing how to handle someone as sexy as me owning it.
"We put our life on hold, we stunt it, because of our bodies." That's the startling truth blogger and speaker Jes Baker shared in a May 2014 TEDx t...
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