PinnedHow to Recenter Equity and Decenter Thinness in the Fight for Food JusticeYou can’t say no one ever told you how.Feb 28, 20214202Feb 28, 20214202
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The Crippling Weight of Stigma: A Closer Look at a 2012 “Anti-Obesity” CampaignIt’s a special case study in how public health authorities do harm.Mar 1, 20212961Mar 1, 20212961
Breaking Up With Mom Is Hard to DoI didn’t know how bad things were until I did.Mar 1, 2021109Mar 1, 2021109
Chouchou, or Why We Had My Brother-In-Law CrematedSometimes, the best way to honor someone is to go against tradition.Feb 28, 20213Feb 28, 20213
Published inBeingWellBurn Down the “Healthcare Hero” IdealStop calling healthcare workers “heroes”. Too many of us have gone unsaved.Jan 31, 2021180Jan 31, 2021180
Published inGENHow Long Must We Wait for a New America?While you celebrate the new administration, so many of us are still waiting. It is cruel, but usual punishment.Jan 22, 20216243Jan 22, 20216243
Published inAn Injustice!No, I Am Not “Dressing for Myself” During a PandemicClothes are about more than just feeling good, white feministsJan 17, 20214801Jan 17, 20214801
Our Fat Bodies Are Not Your MetaphorsA look at reactions to Gabourey Sidibe’s engagement reveal a frustrating, persisting reality: when good things happen to fat people, the…Nov 30, 20207086Nov 30, 20207086
Public Health’s Power-Neutral, Fatphobic Obsession with “Food Deserts”Talks about food access and justice don’t need to moralize food or fat bodies.Nov 13, 2020246Nov 13, 2020246
Published inHuman PartsWe Do Not Deserve HospitalsMy radical vision for the future does not include the violence that occurs within a hospital’s walls — or the hospital at allOct 15, 20201.5K12Oct 15, 20201.5K12
“The Process of Discipline”: Diet Culture and HBO’s ‘The Vow’Restrictive eating and forced weight loss were tools of control in the NXIVM’s sex cult ‘DOS’. I can’t say I’m surprised.Sep 30, 2020763Sep 30, 2020763
The Unbearable Whiteness and Fatphobia of “Anti-Diet” DietitiansThese white female dietitians have helped steal and monetize the body positive movement. And I’m sick of it.Sep 16, 20202.4K38Sep 16, 20202.4K38
Published inElementalThe Scientific Quest to Erase Fatness Is WrongLet’s be careful about how we define ‘progress’Sep 12, 20209182Sep 12, 20209182
My Fat Body is Not Rushing Back to CampusI thought nothing would keep me from returning. I was wrong.Sep 6, 20206263Sep 6, 20206263
Expertise is Not Social Justice: Reflecting on the “Ob*sity Epidemic”The current spotlight on structural racism’s impact on Black lives has resulted in the allocation of resources intended to support…Sep 3, 20202992Sep 3, 20202992