the HAES® files: Malpractice with a Side of Victim Blaming

by Ragen Chastain In response to an article pointing out the issues with shaming of Women of Color, fat women, Trans women, and women with multiple sex partners, Dr. Lisa Girgis has penned a spectacular tribute to derailment, tone-deafness and victim blaming.  Let’s break it down: In the September issue of “Women’s Health Magazine”, there appears a […]

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Study: Diet Culture is Screwing Up Five Year Old Girls

If you were looking for proof that our culture is unbelievably messed up around dieting, you need look no farther than the fact that a study has come out called “Dietary restraint of 5-year-old girls: Associations with internalization of the thin ideal and maternal, media, and peer influences.” Yes, we have reached a point where […]

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Sundries, August 2015

(CN sexual assault) A summary of films I saw over the past month with fat characters that I didn’t write about. Super (2010, dir. James Gunn) Mr. Range (Don Mac) is a powerful drug dealer who does business with Jacques (Kevin Bacon).  Jacques has procured several women to entertain Mr. Range during their transaction, but […]

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Fat Activism Conference 2015

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Lipedema Series, Part 6: Finding Clothing That Works

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MY FAT ASS HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS (PART III)

This is part three of a series in which I respond to the author of this: http://ift.tt/1JkVEHO And Ms. Weinberg, reducing calorie intake and increasing calorie expenditure does not always lead to weight loss. And while the arithmetic (calories in = calories out) seems simple, the results are not because the human body is not […]

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Half in the Data Dark, We’ve More Work to Do!

Today, I read a horrifying statistic about the state of statistics.  A group called All Trials has flatly stated that of all the clinical trials, encompassing hundreds of thousands of patients, 50% have never reported the results.  They state this, and offer this research to back it up. One can speculate many reasons why various […]

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