Dances With Fat

Health comes in all shapes and sizes - including mine. Join me as I debunk the misinformation about the unhealthiness of fat and the stereotypes about fat people. Stand up with me as I push back against a culture that has sidelined my body and disenfranchised me for inhabiting it. Let's work together to bring an end to discrimination - in whatever forms it rears its head. This work is syndicated here with permission and can be found at Dances With Fat.

Athletic Privilege and Me
by danceswithfat | May 08, 2013

What is athletic privilege? One of my previous blogs mentioned this term, and I decided to write more about it because many readers asked what it meant.

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If My Life Were a Movie
by danceswithfat | May 07, 2013

How can we combat fat stigma, fat stereotyping, and fat oppression? One way is by not hesitating to be FIP. Do you know what that means?

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Weight of the Nation for Kids – Oh No
by danceswithfat | May 06, 2013

Why does HBO want to focus on the weight of kids? If the goal is to improve public health, shouldn’t the focus be on increasing healthy behaviors for all ages and all sizes, without stigmatizing fat kids?

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Why Do Dieters Regain Weight?
by danceswithfat | May 05, 2013

Should we blame our own lack of willpower and resolve for gaining back the weight we lose by dieting? As researchers examine long-term effects of dieting more closely, we are learning more about how the body’s reaction to dieting promotes weight regain.

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Screw You Weight Watchers
by danceswithfat | May 02, 2013

If you’re as tired about people defending Weight Watchers as we are, you need to hear about the latest fat shaming techniques they’re trying to sell us at a profit.

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Our Health in Our Hands
by danceswithfat | May 02, 2013

A recent study shows that doctors are not as receptive to fat people as they are to thin people. The only solution they come up with is weight loss. Is that surprising?

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What Should Fat People Have to Do?
by danceswithfat | April 30, 2013

Public health should be about providing unbiased options and information, and should not be about how certain individuals should look.

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Sticking Up for Ourselves – Too Fat to Tan?
by danceswithfat | April 29, 2013

Fat activism says that we insist that others stop trying to keep our civil rights and respectful treatment away from us through an inappropriate use of power and privilege.

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Define Self-Respecting Women
by danceswithfat | April 27, 2013

Samantha Brick has written an article describing how awful it is to be fat and how she will do anything to remain thin with the idea that dieting will make you beautiful.

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