By hijacking concepts like equity, justice, and stigma; buttressing themselves with fat and not-fat Black women ambassadors; and manipulating rhetoric to equate weight loss with ending weight stigma, the industry is opening itself to levels of revenue it has never seen before—and even seeming more empathetic to fat people while doing it.

Medical fatphobia isn’t the result of providers not knowing some special cheat codes for working with fat patients. Fatphobia is medicine’s status quo. 

They say the Devil works hard, but the diet industry works harder.

You can’t say no one ever told you how.

We lose our childhoods in a million different ways

Stop calling healthcare workers “heroes”. Too many of us have gone unsaved.

While you celebrate the new administration, so many of us are still waiting. It is cruel, but usual punishment.

Clothes are about more than just feeling good, white feminists.

A look at reactions to Gabourey Sidibe’s engagement reveal a frustrating, persisting reality: when good things happen to fat people, the world doesn’t know how to act.

The term is nothing more than a way to push diet culture as a scientific concern and talk around the nature of inequity.

My radical imagination for the future does not include the violence that occurs within a hospital’s walls — or the hospital at all.

Restrictive eating and forced weight loss were tools of control in the NXIVM’s sex cult ‘DOS’. I can’t say I’m surprised.

These white female dietitians have helped steal and monetize the body positive movement. And I’m sick of it.

We don’t need to wait 30 years to fully realize the consequences of eugenics. It’s hurting us right now.

The threat COVID posed to my body was nothing in comparison to what it had already experienced.

It’s past time the academy reckons with its use of marginalized people for its own gain.

Tear gas is a health hazard and banned in international warfare. Police should not use it on anyone—including protesters.