body image
Thor’s “Endgame” Weight Gain Should Have Been More Than a Punch Line
There’s a longstanding assumption that fat people feel less pain or sadness than non-fat people, and that they both deserve and can handle less-than-human treatment.
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Body Freedom: Shemekka Epps Should Get to Have It Too
She’s Gotta Have It buys into the idea that self-love and body modification can’t coexist.
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No Fluffy Self-Love: Sonalee Rashatwar Is Returning Body Positivity to Its Political Roots
What are we rejecting within us by rejecting fat people?
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6 Fat Writers, Activists and Athletes Who Defy Traditional Femininity
Lots of people needed what I was looking for: people as fierce, fun, and fat-positive as the ones I already loved—just less femme.
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Big as Life: “Shrill” Upends Pop Culture’s Fat Narrative
Aidy Bryant brings humor and positivity to a role that could have easily fallen into stereotype with a lesser actress.
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Well, Actually: The Thin White Men Who Rebranded Dieting as “Wellness”
We need to talk more about how many food rules targeted at women come from men who will never have our bodies or wrestle with our cultural expectations.
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2018’s Best Books About Bodies
Our relationships to our bodies are arguably the deepest and most stirring we have.
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Small Revolutions: “Dumplin’” Shows the Value in Empowering Fat Children
Willowdean’s ability to not only cope with but actively challenge systems that discriminate against fat girls is not coincidental.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Dear “Good Men”
We must demand that men do more than just listen.
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Smashing Barriers: Mara Altman and Virgie Tovar On Body Acceptance, Fatphobia, and Imagining a New World for Women
Diet culture is just the newest form of women’s subjugation.
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