Sisterhood of the Traveling Pounds
When did supporting each other start to mean enabling disordered eating?
Thick Me Up
An anthropology of the stories we tell about bodies, and how those stories shape and organize society.
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First, Do No Harm
Holding the medical community accountable for their fatphobia
When does Disordered Eating Become an Eating Disorder?
Is it anorexia if everyone is doing it?
WARNING: Side Effects May Vary
Your body is not a policy violation. But the ads targeting it should be.
The Perfect Beach Body
Chasing a Perfection-Shaped Dragon
If Fat Could Kill
Is fatphobia really just about vanity?
Eating the Goalposts: How Diets Make You Fat
Restriction, rebound, and the cycle that keeps us heavier
The Flattering Fallacy
Compliment or compliance?
Is Being Fat Unhealthy?
The Obesity Paradox and How Science is Killing Us
The Fat Straw Man
It's time to stop arguing against a monster that doesn't exist