Virgie Tovar

This week I have been thinking a lot about home, and how home shapes the way we feel about our bodies.

A cake related fatphobic incident is that moment when it's time to eat cake, and an otherwise joyous experience gets ruined by a moralizing impulse.

One of my favorite ways to help people conceptualize patriarchy is by asking them to imagine a Chuck E. Cheese.

Fat girls have less latitude in every arena – clothing is no exception with high school dress codes. Fat women’s bodies are constructed as “outlaw” bodies.

I understand the connections between the violence that leads to police shootings and the violence that leads people to starve themselves. I know with complete certainty that diet culture is a manifestation of the state’s expectation of assimilation and of social control, both of which are manifestations of institutional violence.

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.

Why do men text me about their dicks all the time? Do thin women get this many texts about penises?

Fat people often get so little attention that feels positive. When someone offers exploitative attention or exploits fat people it can feel really good.

I got tired of waking up and being terrified for my health and so I decided to do what I’d been taught to do in moments of distress: craft.

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