Bodies

Weight Watchers announced on Monday that they are changing their name to WW to reflect their focus on wellness and health. This is BS.

There are a lot of places where fat people don’t feel safe because of fatphobia. What does it feel like to feel safe in your fat body?

I couldn’t believe the medical system and several of my peers had me obsessing about my food consumption. I was experiencing food shaming during pregnancy.

Having been forced to disclose her eating disorder status, Morgan was now at their mercy in order to graduate from Vanguard University.

Embracing butchness is a struggle, but these small moments have helped me undo years of insecurity. Butch is beautiful and so am I!

As someone who went through six years of infertility and who’s now in therapy for it, please stop telling people going through infertility to just relax.

My hair softened those sharp edges. It neutralized the threat of me. It said I was no trouble. My haircut changed my life.

Fat liberation and fat people’s full humanity and our right to a life free from discrimination — not our health status.