Virgie Tovar
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Virgie Tovar Articles
More than lip service to an unlikely situation, I needed accountability from my family. Small things that required less bravado, but more work. Just before Christmas, I experienced the moment that made our breakup crystallize.
Read...One of the things that has become exceedingly obvious to me is how our current cultural attitudes toward fat people are steeped in bigotry.
Read...“Chill” is, I think, a coded word that describes an environment where low expectations, low commitment, and zero accountability are considered normal.
Read...I spent most of last week in a southern California heat wave.
Read...I can say that dieting symbolized a lot of things for me. I work to claim a uniquely fat femininity that thrives when my belly is full.
Read...To me, being a spinster is a lot about prioritizing myself, my needs and my desires over the culture’s needs and desires for my life.
Read...[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...
Read...Even children experience fatphobia. Children deserve to be treated with care and responsibility, free from the stigma we grew up knowing.
Read...I want to tell you something about me: I’m an obsessive person.
Read...*Spoiler alert: some character-specific plot point reveals for the films
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