Tuesday I sat through another hard sell for weight loss surgery. I'm so done ( Read more... )

As society grew more aware of eating disorders, those of us who were fat or very thin began to hear that we MUST have an eating disorder. Meanwhile the average-sized person with an eating disorder went unnoticed. It's not our place to diagnose other people ( Read more... )

People talk a lot about science denial in terms of climate change or vaccinations but few realize that the assumptions about weight regain and willpower are contradicted by obesity research ( Read more... )

http://stacybias.net/2014/06/12-good-fatty-archetypes/ This is brilliant, in my opinion, and demonstrates what happens when a group of people with one characteristic in common--body fat--are stigmatized and marginalized in our society. The basis of prejudice is ( Read more... )

Well done: http://www.theweeklings.com/sdasgupta/2014/03/20/a-doctors-fat-fantasy/

Excerpt:

THE OTHER DAY, a colleague brought to my attention an essay from The Washington Post called “A morbidly obese patient tests the limits of a doctor’s ( Read more... )

This is the photo shoot that A&F ought to embrace instead of their current offensive "cool kids" ideal. The letter that goes with it is as brilliant as the images. If you care about size acceptance, subverting the paradigm and building a more inclusive society, check it out ( Read more... )

This is brilliant--photography professor turns the camera on strangers who fat shame or mock her in public: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/pictures_of_people_who_mock_me/

She's working on a book.

A bioethicist (!!!) thinks we need more fat-shaming to combat obesity. http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/HCR/Detail.aspx?id=6184 is the original article, below are two responses.

The Worst Thing You'll Read All Day (Shakesville) Lissa: ( Read more... )

read this: http://blog.nudemuse.org/2013/01/2013-it-is-happening.htmlRead more... )

Yesterday I had to UN-like an otherwise cool liberal page on Facebook for using a grotesque picture* of a fat person's butt to make their political point. It is all too common that a group of people who take care not to make racist statements or other types of bigoted statements will not hesitate to make fat people the butt of their jokes ( ( Read more... )