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Unbearable Weight: Why I Don’t Decline Being Weighed at the Doctor’s Office
Did you know that you can declined to be weighed at the doctor’s office?! YES, I KNOW. The internet has been telling me for years at this point. I hear it all the time: in shareable graphics, in posts...
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Eating Intuitively While Working Remotely
When I ditched diet culture and started practicing Intuitive Eating (IE) a few years ago, I would have guessed that my biggest challenge would come in the form of a dessert buffet or magnificent,...
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Activism and Obedience
I used to work for this nonprofit organization. We were a big org that was focused on animal welfare. Like many organizations in this field, our office was blindingly white. There were probably less...
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Moving Rocks: On Burning Health at Every Size to the Ground
I’m a big Star Wars fan. And one of my favorite arcs in the whole franchise is from “The Last Jedi.” (Yeah, I like the new trilogy, die mad about it, haters.) Luke Skywalker, Jedi of myth and legend,...
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Book Review: Fearing the Black Body – The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by...
Sometimes a book, movie, or piece of art enters the public consciousness to such a degree that you feel like you know what it’s all about, even if you haven’t actually read it or seen it. I had this...
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The Minnesota Starvation Experiment, Ancel Keys & Why Science Won’t Save Us
One of my favorite ways to get to know someone is to find out what their weirdest, most out-of-the-blue, most inane trigger for Big Anger is. My husband’s is chicken and waffles; he finds the...
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A Plea
“Oh boy, how much do you weigh?” His name was Dr. Pfeffer. My discharge papers from the emergency room told me to make an appointment with him. I had a large obstructive kidney stone that wasn’t going...
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About Lena Dunham’s Fashion Line
Earlier this week, Lena Dunham released her small collection for a plus-size brand I had never heard of called 11 Honoré. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) The...
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Fategories – Understanding the Fat Spectrum
Updated, May 2021: I wrote this piece in 2019 and it was long overdue for an update. I’ve removed the “White Fragility” framework because WOW that did not age well, and I should never have used it. I...
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Pay No Attention to the Mob Behind the Curtain: On Cancel Culture
They almost got me. I started noticing something that disturbed me about the way people were interacting online last spring. Now, to be clear, people have been shitty to each other online since time...
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