Virgie Tovar

I spent most of last week in a southern California heat wave.

The other night, I was eating capellini with asparagus and shrimp with a new friend/Babecamp Jamaica alum.

I have met many people who can't say no. We all benefit when we speak clearly and frequently about what we need in order to thrive.

It's okay to hate Thanksgiving. After years of gritting my teeth I finally gave myself permission to choose what I wanted to do.

If you like the idea of being with a fat fetishist, I think you should do it. If you hate the idea, then don’t. If you want to experiment with it, try it.

How does a weight loss company sell weight loss products to people who don’t want to be fat but also don’t want to say they don’t want to be fat or identify as being on a diet? This question lives at the heart of what I’m going to call “BoPo-washing.” BoPo-washing is the new paradigm of companies using weight-neutral or body positive language in order to peddle products.

This week in Babecamp we were talking about Sarai Walker’s novel Dietland.

This week I went to a networking event and had feelings about it. This is the story of those feelings. 

I can think of few things more worthy of celebrating on International Women’s Day than the slow and very public decline of a company that has capit

The double standard of the soda tax is glaringly absurd, but grounded in a long history of selective regulation and bigoted attitudes.