Make Believe —

Trigger warning: Discussion of weight loss and an infamous dickweed. “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” — Andy Warhol (or not) “The future is now.” — George Allen I suck at “going viral.” I’ve always been proud of my writing, but I’ve long since given up the ghost on writing the […]



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Last Minute Halloween Make-Up Idea with SpookyEyes!

Disclosure: I’m partnering with Spooky Eyes to bring you this post! Hi friends! I’m super excited to share this last minute Halloween make-up idea with you featuring awesome contacts from Spooky Eyes! I’m wearing the Cobra Eye Contact Lenses here … Continue reading →



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Picture Framing

~HI Everyone! I’m knee deep in grad school papers write now (typo and it stays), so I’m going to leave you with a slightly annotated excerpt from one I wrote a while ago that addresses framing in our movement, juxtaposed with some similar experiences faced by those in gay rights activist communities. Please leave a […]



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the HAES® files: Social Barriers to Intuitive Eating

by Daxle Collier I’m going to be outlining some of the social barriers to intuitive eating, but before beginning, I’d like to make a disclaimer. When talking about social justice, it is important to know whose voice is being prioritized, and whose voices are not. I identify as a thin, white, pansexual, cis female. I […]



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Lies They Told Me About Health

One of the things that completely floored me when I started looking into the research on weight and health was that there wasn’t a single study of people who had maintained weight loss that showed that it led to greater health. Studies that look at body size and health (but don’t factor in or control […]



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Intuitive Eating Again — Finally

Trigger warning: Discussion of intuitive eating and health strategies. As a Fat Acceptance (FA) activist and proponent of Health at Every Size® (HAES), I advocate intuitive eating. I’ve done my best over the past four years, since finding HAES and FA, to follow it myself. Problem is that I’ve also had chronic nausea that entire […]



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Walmart’s Fat Girl Costumes

The internet briefly exploded into a freakout today because the Walmart website had a page for it’s Halloween Costumes called “Fat Girl Costumes.” People took to social media to discuss their displeasure and Walmart took the page down, tweeting things like “This never should have been on our site. It is unacceptable, and we apologize.” […]



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