Virgie Tovar

What does it mean to want this body? What does it mean to fight for this brown, fat feminine body? In this culture, it means revolution.

*Spoiler alert: some character-specific plot point reveals for the films

The first time I heard about the #DropThePlus campaign I was of two minds.

“Chill” is, I think, a coded word that describes an environment where low expectations, low commitment, and zero accountability are considered normal.

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.

My boundaries around how people can talk to me about my body are very clear. I’d like to share with you four body boundary tips for a better holiday.

There is not a single path to self-love, and so you must become an engineer of that process. We have to feel lots of uncomfortable things.

Fat liberation and fat people’s full humanity and our right to a life free from discrimination — not our health status.

I think a lot of us are probably walking around with mild PTSD, anxiously calculating risk and making plans about what and who to avoid.... Even though I’m no longer technically walking the halls of junior high, I am living in a fitness-obsessed city that doesn’t feel as safe as it ought to considering almost everyone is over age 13.

So, recently I started dipping my toe back into the poisonous dump site that is straight dating. Deep breath.