Monthly Archives: June 2013

Heroic Measures

I recently came across a post by bodycrimes called Your Lived Experience Doesn’t Make You a Medical Expert. I’ve had cancer, and can tell you quite a bit about my own disease and my own lived experience of being a … Continue reading

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Thought of the Day

If you’re trying to convince people that other people who write about food and health are catering to an elite and mostly-already-thin minority, but you are really concerned about poor and middle class fat people, maybe the best way to … Continue reading

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“Diversity Is Our Weakness” and other, more cheerful links

On That Tweet–Fat Discrimination in the Education Sector This is not about this one guy who tweeted this one hateful thing – it’s about our larger culture and how we are content to allow fat individuals to exist as second … Continue reading

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