Wegovy Isn’t A “Game Changer”, But An Update.
They say the Devil works hard, but the diet industry works harder.
How to Recenter Equity + Decenter Thinness in the Fight for Food Justice
You can’t say no one ever told you how.
Burn Down the “Healthcare Hero” Ideal
Stop calling healthcare workers “heroes”. Too many of us have gone unsaved.
How Long Must We Wait for a New America?
While you celebrate the new administration, so many of us are still waiting. It is cruel, but usual punishment.
No, I Am Not “Dressing for Myself” During a Pandemic
Clothes are about more than just feeling good, white feminists.
Our Fat Bodies Are Not Your Metaphors
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.
Public Health’s Power-Neutral, Fatphobic Obsession with “Food Deserts”
The term is nothing more than a way to push diet culture as a scientific concern and talk around the nature of inequity.
We Do Not Deserve Hospitals
My radical imagination for the future does not include the violence that occurs within a hospital’s walls — or the hospital at all.
“The Process of Discipline”: Diet Culture and HBO’s ‘The Vow’
Restrictive eating and forced weight loss were tools of control in the NXIVM’s sex cult ‘DOS’. I can’t say I’m surprised.
The Unbearable Whiteness and Fatphobia of “Anti-Diet” Dietitians
These white female dietitians have helped steal and monetize the body positive movement. And I’m sick of it.
The Eugenics Diet Can Make You and Your Kids Thinner
We don’t need to wait 30 years to fully realize the consequences of eugenics. It’s hurting us right now.
The Pandemic is Not What’s Keeping My Fat Body at Home
The threat COVID posed to my body was nothing in comparison to what it had already experienced.
Expertise is Not Social Justice: Reflecting on the “Ob*sity Epidemic”
It’s past time the academy reckons with its use of marginalized people for its own gain.
Why R.I. should ban tear gas (with Alison Z. Weber)
Tear gas is a health hazard and banned in international warfare. Police should not use it on anyone—including protesters.