You want to really blow people’s minds? Try this at home: Be fat and happy. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. This girl, the one on the left, she’s me. In the flesh, me. Five years ago, after three babies. Me. This photo was snapped at the lake, two months before […]
While I’m in favor of encouraging women to feel confident and happy, I worry that today’s body positivity focuses too much on affirming beauty and not enough on deconstructing its necessity. In the early 2000s, when I was a burgeoning fashionable fat girl, I stumbled across the LiveJournal community Fatshionista. I loved seeing pictures of women […]
There is this idea that if a woman celebrates her fat body as beautiful and worthwhile, then she is a bad influence on those around her. Imagine this: A woman tells a story on her personal blog about how she learned to stop hating her body. She writes of the journey that took her out […]
