Hospitals don’t have evacuation plans in place to care for fat and disabled patients in the most disastrous moments. TW: mention of “ob*sity,” murder, and general anti-fat anti-Black violence Earth’s climate is changing. Drastically and rapidly. Glaciers are melting; ecosystems are shifting; temperatures are changing and sea levels are rising. But what is perhaps most...
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Lizzo’s Body Is Not A Political Battlefront
White women crying in “disappointment” about Lizzo is nothing short of their belief that fat Black women should always tend to their wounds coming to the surface. CW: diet talk By Rasheed Ajamu “Body Positivity” icon Lizzo recently decided to partake in a “JJ Smith’s 10-day smoothie detox” and gave her social media following a...
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We Shouldn’t Have To Say This: Breasts, Areolae, and Nipples Vary In Appearance
It’s critical that we call out and interrogate the misogynoir at the forefront of people’s reactions to Cardi B’s breasts. By Sherronda J. Brown and Lara Witt We really shouldn’t have to even say this, but it’s a fact that breasts, nipples, and areolae vary in size, color, position, and shape, and even in texture....
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Fatphobia: A Wear Your Voice Reading List
Wear Your Voice assembled this reading list to help people learn more about fatphobia and its interconnected oppressions. Dismantling fatphobia, white supremacy and other oppressions is foundational to the work that we create at Wear Your Voice. We believe that various systems of power are interconnected and therefore we must tackle them as such. Anti-fatness...
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‘The Circle’ On How We Treat Black Women and Fat People Online
It’s an EmoBlackThot-sized lesson that ‘The Circle’ ends up showing to the masses. The lesson could have been more useful if it was intentional. Just under a month ago, I started watching The Circle with a dear friend and roommate. We were both bored out of our fucking minds after clocking out of our respective...
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The State of Fat Representation in Sex: A Weekend at The Sex Expo
Not seeing fat people represented sends a message that fat bodies aren’t desirable. That couldn’t be further from the truth. By Mayra Mejia Let’s face it. Most of us (consenting, adult) fat folks have and enjoy sex. But oftentimes in the sex industry, the only plus-size representation is presented as a fetish. While fetishes can...
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Hot Girl Summer is a Declaration of Unconditional Self-Love
Hot Girl Summer is a body-positive call to be proud of the skin you’re in and live your best life, a movement rooted in unapologetic confidence. By Alie Jones Megan Thee Stallion’s Hot Girl Summer has been deeply misinterpreted by her loving fans, her detractors, and media outlets alike, often wrongly thought of as a...
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Robbie Tripp Put the Final Nail in Body Positivity’s Coffin With His ‘Chubby Sexy’ Music Video
In “Chubby Sexy,” Tripp capitalizes on his wife’s “thickness” while using a poor approximation of AAVE to deliver heavy-handed fat jokes. By Noor Al-Sibai Robbie Tripp, dubbed “Curvy Wife Guy” by internet cajolers, is back at it again — and this time, he’s White Boy Rapping about his spouse’s fat ass. On May 24, the...
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Fat People Must Become a Priority to the Left
Fat folks carry the weight of the work in these spaces while our bodies and material realities are continually othered and written off. I am a communist. More specifically, I am an ecosocialist. And while I do not currently identify as a Pan-Africanist, I have organized, now, for five years with an African-centered politic. I...
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The Unbearable Weight of Fatphobia: A Conversation with Samantha Irby
“I don’t wanna have to teach a lesson on Health At Every Size just to get through every conversation in my day. I’m just trying to live my life.” This interview contains spoilers for season one of Hulu’s “Shrill” and contains discussion of fatphobic/fat antagonistic language and diet culture, as well as mention of disordered...