When it comes to eating disorders, is critical to strategize specifically around our needs, ones grounded in our positionalities as people of color. TW/CW: discussion of eating disorders By Gloria Oladipo November through January is one of the hardest times for any eating disorder survivors. Various holidays—Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve—center around socializing with food,...
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I Am What They Fear: Healing From Eating Disorders While Fat
I could understand that we share an illness that makes us fear food and desire thinness, but the realities of a fat girl with an eating disorder and a thin girl with an eating disorder are so far apart, it’s like a gorge divides us. This essay contains discussions of disordered eating habits, fat antagonism,...
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We Need To Banish White Supremacy From Eating Disorders Treatment
For National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Gloria Oladipo explores the difficulties of receiving treatment as a Black woman and the ways in which the treatment can and should improve by tackling colonialism and white supremacy. By Gloria Oladipo My experience as a Black woman in eating disorder treatment is a difficult one. At the different...
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My Fitness Journey Does Not Have To Be About Weight Loss
Not a single person who has ever fat-shamed me has even bothered to asked me if I want to be thin. I don’t. I hate the gym. It’s a traumatic space for me. Being a fat person in public is hard, and being a fat person in a gym is even harder. It can shatter...
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The “D” Word Needs to be Removed From Our Vocabulary
Remaining positive about our bodies and keeping our head above the water of diet culture is a constant struggle. [Content Note: This article will discuss the use of the word “diet” in both a general sense and a restriction sense. The point of this post is to help dismantle diet culture and educate those on...
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Dear Virgie: My Friend Started Dieting & Isn’t Talking To Me Now
Dear Virgie, about a week into her diet, my friend started distancing herself from me. She stopped reaching out and communication went dark. Dear Virgie, My closest friend and I are having a struggle. We’ve known each other for about one and a half years and have been next to inseparable a lot of that time. We hung...
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10 Things Fat Babes With Eating Disorders Need You To Know
Yes, there are fat women with eating disorders. Here are 10 things to know so you can be a great ally to the ones in your life. 1. We exist! (Yes, really!) Contrary to the stereotypes that abound, commit this to memory: an eating disorder can affect literally anyone. There is no weight requirement. There are very thin...
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Body-Shaming YouTube Star Eugenia Cooney Is Not OK
Content warning: anorexia, bulimia, disordered eating YouTube star Eugenia Cooney is the target of a different kind of body hate than we usually cover. With over 890,000 YouTube followers, Cooney has long been the object of a witch hunt based on her very, very tiny waist size and speculated eating disorder. Recently, a Change.org petition...
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After I Was Hospitalized With Anorexia, a Brave Photo Shoot Helped My Recovery
My eating disorder landed me in the hospital. When I got out, I wanted to do something daring to help myself heal. by Brittany Roberts [Content warning: discussion of eating disorders] A few months ago, this would have terrified me. A few months ago, I was still crippled by fear at the thought of seeing myself in...
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With Body Dysmorphic Disorder, I Have No Idea What I Look Like — But That’s OK
“I had a chance to look at the pictures you sent over and I have to tell you that I’m at a bit of a loss.” “It’s that bad?” “Actually, I failed to see how this procedure could help you. I don’t want to sound insensitive, but I couldn’t find an issue here.” “It’s probably...