Your Queer Fat Auntie Experiencing Cancer
For those of us in large bodies, “what are we going to do about the weight?” is a perennial question from health care providers. It is somehow meant to be collaborative, yet always falls short. It is a question that immediately blames body size and the person in the body for any concerns It is…
While creating the online course “What are we going to do about the weight?” Weight Stigma in Health Care, it was important to me to provide a list of resources and information. Here is a non-exhaustive list of books, online resources, and podcasts that I may well edit and add to as time goes on….
With the marginalizations that intersect in my life I’ve learned how to self-advocate, even demand in medical settings. I’ve often spoken what others do not, cannot. I’m heard because of a variety of factors, privilege being high on the list.
Forget breast cancer awareness, our culture and medical system needs to address weight stigma, and all the harm it does to people in bodies of all sizes.
Some days I look around me and see so much love and support for bodies that are considered big or fat*, chubby or enormous. I have been all of those things for as long as I remember. In fact, I do not remember a time when I was not aware that I was bigger than…
A Primer for straight sized and small fat people, especially HAES therapists, dietitians, counselors, and other clinicians working with clients in large bodies.
This is an expansion of my reply to a doctor’s office about why I won’t become a “member.” While I appreciate that the concierge model is an attractive business model for doctors, it is also an extremely effective way to isolate a medical practice to the wealthy, privileged, (and probably white.) Personally, I carry a…
Because I’ve lived it. I was a child at my first weight watcher’s meeting. All the press and pushback against ww is good. They need to end this program immediately. It is poorly considered, dangerous, and profit driven. I am also aware of how incredibly triggered I have been this week. Trauma remains in my…
Life with a chronic illness sucks some days. I burst into tears when the mop fell over for the third time. I haven’t even started mopping yet. I could walk to the other side of the room and lean it more securely, but I’m already winded and hurting from getting it and the bucket out…
“I don’t see color” is literally ERASURE. It is also a lie. Think about it, all those nice people who use this line to defend their non-racist standing and how open and accepting they are of “all people” that they will literally claim to ”not see color” I call bullshit. Humans are literally hardwired to…