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Enduring Legacy: Playwright Josefina Lopez Reflects on “Real Women Have Curves”
Both the play and the film had a massive impact.
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Billie Eilish’s Body Is Not Ours to Claim
“I feel you watching, always. And nothing I do goes unseen.”
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A New Fairy Tale: “One to Watch” Imagines a Fat Bachelorette
Kate Stayman-London beautifully pulls back the curtain on what fat women in particular endure, not only when attempting to find love, but also in simply existing.
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Leave Summer Walker (And Her Nose) Alone
Instead of condemning Black women, like Summer Walker, who choose to alter their bodies, we should interrogate how the world made their existence in their inherited bodies hostile.
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Our Response to Adele’s Weight Loss Says More about Us Than Her
The body-positive movement limits its scope to individual people’s always evolving bodies rather than the systems that turn weight loss into headline-making news.
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The Lie That Feeds Our Ugly Fascination with Makeover Shows
How do you produce a show that purports to make women more beautiful—presenting them as undesirable as is—and still manage to preach self-love?
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We’re Here, We’re Sheer: Cora Harrington’s Lingerie Revolution
The power of lingerie, and of intimates, is that you can express yourself underneath what you have to wear.
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Off the Scale: Creating Fuller Stories About Fat People
In order to continue creating more authentic stories about fat people, more fat creators must be hired in writer’s rooms, granted book deals, and tapped by Hollywood to adapt their stories.
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In Season 2, “Shrill” Challenges Viewers—and Itself—on Fat Politics
Shrill’s sophomore season widens the show’s narrative to explore other areas of Annie’s life and identity.
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Popaganda: The Feminist Guide to Escaping Diet Culture
Popaganda’s GLAMOUR season makes its debut this week—with an anti-weight-loss infomercial for the ages.
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