Now that I have children of my own, I’m determined to do what I can to inoculate them from the toxic culture of body hatred that surrounds them. When I was 16 years old, I weighed about as much as a 10-year-old. A 10-year-old girl, that is. I was a boy with an eating disorder. […]
Mainstream media would have you believe that eating disorders are a white-woman problem. When I was in elementary school, I started dieting. I’d drink my mother’s protein shakes and eat off-brand, low-fat frozen entrees. In seventh grade, I decided I just wouldn’t eat at all. It worked for a while, but by high school I realized I […]
This originally appeared on xoJane. Republished here with permission. No one knew that I added 20 pounds in my mind when I looked in the mirror. No one knew because boys don’t do that. We may self-deprecate. We may not like our bodies as is. But we don’t do eating disorders. I’ve always been picked […]
This originally appeared on Manifest-Station. Republished here with permission. Note: Sensitive material contained in this piece. Mention of sexual assault. If I had told that guy I didn’t want to sit on his lap, or I had yelled at that man to let go of my chest, then I would have lost them, and in […]
