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My Fat is Not Camouflage, It’s Who I Am and That’s Awesome.
Please help us welcome our newest blogging candidate, Lindsey (aka Feminist Cupcake), who will be submitting three posts before our community votes on her inclusion. If you’d like to join our blogging...
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Coming to Terms With My Dreams of a Fat Pregnancy…
The following is the second post from Lindsey, our new blogging candidate. This is an original post. You can check out more of Lindsey’s work on “Feminist Cupcake.” After one more post, we will vote...
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I’m Ready for Famous People to Promote Body Acceptance that Includes My...
I incorrectly identified yesterday’s post as the quasi-cross-post. This is the quasi-cross-post and Lindsey’s third submission, which means we will be voting on her inclusion tomorrow. Recently, Dr....
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What Does That Girl in the Bikini Have on You?
A few years ago, when I was pretty new to the whole fat acceptance scene, I was in the car with my husband and we passed a billboard for a plastic surgeon that featured a woman on the beach in a white...
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As a Fatty, My Street Harassment Isn’t Your Street Harassment…
Once a month I participate in Rarely Wears Lipstick’s “Ask a Feminist” series. The series is akin to the old ”Dear Abby” column. Basically, someone sends in or poses a question about living in a...
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Social Justice, Mythic Foundations and Miss Piggy
This is going to sound odd, but I think I owe really big thank you to Muppets Covergirl, Miss Piggy. Let me explain myself. Lately, I’ve been thinking about fat activists and other social justice-y...
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Louis C.K. and Meghan Trainor Just Aren’t Getting it Right!
A while back there was that Louis episode with the fat girl who goes on a diatribe about life as a fat girl. Did you see it? You can watch it here: When it aired there was a lot of noise about how...
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Changing Hearts is Sometimes Easier than Changing the Patterns in Our Minds
I have recently been reminded that even when we “get” it, even when we are 100% on board with the struggle to undo our culture’s fat-hating tendencies, we can still easily slip into patterns that...
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What’s the Takeaway from the Walmart “Fat Girl Costumes” Debacle
Warning: Possible triggers ahead regarding the word “fat” and euphemisms for fat. By now, many of you may have heard that Walmart recently came under scrutiny because one of the pages on its website...
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That Time When “Before and After” Wasn’t a Nightmare
Trigger warning: Discussion of diet culture and before and after photos. In general, “before and after” photos are the bane of a body positive existence because they imply that the body in the...
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