Having a female body is especially hard. Having a fat one is even harder. I wrote this piece after the election, but I don’t want to talk about politics. We’ve had enough of that this week. Just this morning I was told by a man on Facebook that I was “extremely arrogant” for expressing my […]
You do not want your daughter to fear her natural self or any other self she chooses. You do not want your sons to closet and shame women. She wants to know if it hurts. Your daughter, on her way to 3, extends a finger, hesitant. “Is it a boo boo?” You are cuddled together on […]
Aside from a small amount of teasing in school, most of the insults I’d gotten about my body had come from my own brain. Like many women, weight has been an issue for me for most of my life. I can’t say it’s been on my mind for as long as I can remember, because I […]
