Virgie Tovar

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

Fat positivity creates room for fat people to be seen with full humanity — not as failed thin people, but as complete and precious.

Like, "Yum, there is a table full of delicious food" but also, "Ugh, am I gonna hate myself after I eat this?"

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.

Ali Abbassi’s ‘Border’ movie ultimately reminded me of what happens when we meet someone who reflects our power back to us.

I told you I never wanted to speak to him again. I offered that we work together to rid him from our lives. I thought we had both made the realization that he was garbage, but in reality, only I had.

[CN: fatphobia] I tell her I have an idea. She loves my ideas, my schemes, our witchcraft. We talk about feeling crazy, because that’s what the culture does to women who really want something, anything...

By the time you read this, Babecamp Jamaica will be over. My 57 mosquito bites will have just stopped itching.

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.

Sharon is so intensely interesting to me in The Sinner. We get to see a fat woman who is over thirty exercise extraordinary sexual power.