Virgie Tovar
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Virgie Tovar Articles
One of the things I have done for myself in adulthood as part of my healing process is make a strong claim to fatness femininity.
Read...Affection or attention that relies upon body conformity is not love — it’s exploitation. I’m here to tell you once and for all: your body is yours.
Read...Recently there’s been an uptick in fatphobic derailments, and I thought it would be helpful to share them as well my responses to them.
Read...Resolution season is rough for many of us.
Read...I finally left Goodwill with about 15 pieces and the sense that I had a new friend who donated her wardrobe. Fat intimacy and solidarity!
Read...The double standard of the soda tax is glaringly absurd, but grounded in a long history of selective regulation and bigoted attitudes.
Read...Last week I posted an image of myself on Instagram, middle finger raised, in front of an enormous ad that said “Power to the Thinnest.”
Read...Dieting is a socially sanctioned method of mentally high-tailing out of whatever is going on and keeping you entirely in your head, laser-focused on your next bite, your scale, your plate.
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