Insured While Fat

by Shaker MaryAnn [Trigger warning for fat hatred, body policing, disordered eating, and ableism.] Attaining decent health care is no easy ...

Ugh

[Trigger warning for body policing, fat hatred, and ableism.] Linked from the front page of CNN: " Smart ways to keep your marriage hea...

On Fat Hatred and Eliminationism

[Trigger warning for fat hatred; eliminationism; references to dieting and disordered eating.] So this morning I see that professional fat-h...

Et tu, deus?

[Trigger warning for fat hatred and eliminationism] In case you missed it, a hurricane struck the Eastern U.S. this week (Canada, too, altho...

On Keeping On Keeping On, Part One

[Trigger warning for fat hatred, misogyny, ablism, violence.] I have had an abundance of Shakers express to me lately that they despair abou...

Southwest Stinks

Hey, speaking of treating fat people like garbage on airplanes, guess what Southwest airlines learned from having famously treated Famous ...

This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

[Trigger warning for fat hatred; disordered eating; diet talk; body policing.] You know, I read a lot of terrible articles about obesity, bu...

Imagine That

CNN has a reasonably decent article by Madison Park about two new studies published today which "suggest reframing the way medical pra...

This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

[Trigger warning for fat dehumanization.] Actual Headline: It Pays to Be Fat . Actual Lede: "Employers may punish women who are obese...

Number of the Day

Two: The number of online adverts I've seen today featuring fat women for no reason, i.e. they weren't the "before" shots...