Fat acceptance

As a fat woman who preaches body positivity, I've been accused of 'encouraging obesity' many times. But the latest evidence shows this isn't true at all

This year I'm not making a New Year's Resolution To Lose Weight...and I don't think you should, either!

Wouldn't it be great if we acknowledged the full humanity of everyone, including fat people? Here are some ways we fall short.

I don’t want to move the line of the socially acceptable body by 50 or 100 or 150 pounds. I want to get rid of the line altogether because the line hurts everyone — even the people who are seen as the “winners.”

Body Positivity, Body Acceptance, and Fat Acceptance.

(Via Unshelved) I've wanted to write a post that offered a "censored" version of my book Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls for a long time. After all, the #1 complaint I've heard from people is that there is "Too much f*cking swearing! Your mouth is filthy!" Somewhere in the universe while this is being said, pearls are being clutched really tightly. Occasionally this is followed with "I'm upset that I can't read it to my mother or teenager." And while my grandmother loves it (and most…

Books Stories collected in 'Hot & Heavy' anthology detail women's journeys Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love, and Fashion (Seal Press, 256 pages), and her transformation from a wallflower adolescent into a 30-year-old fierce, fabulous, unapologetic and over-the-top gaudy woman is not unlike the journey of many of the book's contributors. The anthology is made up of 31 intensely personal stories, submitted by women who identify as fat, and addresses everything from speed dating to cancer with…

I really do wear those boots everywhere.