On living a fat life

Fat bodies are public bodies. They are open to comment, judgement, and ridicule. Fat lives are public lives. They are described, proscribed, and prescribed. “Fat people shouldn’t wear skinny jeans!” “Fat people aren’t athletic.” “Fat people can’t find true love.” “Fat people only eat fast food.” “Fat people don’t run marathons.” “Fat people shouldn’t wear […]



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Open Letter to Carol Weston. XXXL is ok.

Due to life, I was unable to respond to directly to this letter by Carol Weston which talks about how horrible the childhood obesity epidemic is. Apparently It wouldn't have mattered because the New York Times printed no rebuttals from...



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Women’s magazines and their terrible messages

We don’t ask much of our readers, but we are asking you to support Casey in improving her mobility while fighting the fat haters. Read more here or click the image above to donate. Trigger warning: Mention of dieting and weight-loss. I’m not a fan of women’s lifestyle magazines. They were something I only to […]



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Tracking: not always a force for evil!

Content note: Diet talk and exercise for weight loss A couple of days ago I blogged about mHealth and wearable technology that allows us to monitor our every metric. One of my readers commented that she had a FitBit and really loved it. As it happens, I have one too, and also love it. I…

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Ballet, Bodies, and Basement Jaxx

This evening I went to a performance of Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys of Dance: Rock the Ballet (video link). The term ‘rock’ was used somewhat loosely, but six male and one female dancers performed to a range of popular music. All were clearly classically trained, and what they could do with their bodies was truly…

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Lack of insurance and biased doctors hurt us

Amanda writes: Hi guys, My story isn’t necessarily about discrimination, but I do feel like I have to put the whole thing out in the universe, and in writing it down, maybe it will help to relieve some of my anxiety about what is to come. I should start from the beginning. I have always […]



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What’s the point?

Earlier this week, at the 2014 Weight Stigma Conference (yes, I know – I’ll start talking about something else soon), Dr Lee Monaghan talked about how weight stigma was part of a larger problem, and how framing ‘obesity’ as a personal tragedy, shifted the focus to the individual, and deflected attention away from wider structural…

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