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….
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.
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…
Obesity is often cited as a “cause” cause of cancer. That’s a lazy correlation. Waht about Medical fat bias, diet culture, shame, judgement, and bullying of fat bodies, decades fo failed diets and weight cycling, malnutrition and severe food restrictions, eating disorders, stress …
The noise that juicer made was enough to wake the neighbors, and carrots came in 50lb. bags, all to satisfy Mike’s desires to make the best possible choices for his health. Juicing was one of many paths he followed as he read Prevention magazine, bought supplements, followed eating plans and diets, turned slightly orange, attended…
As I relax in the sun watching girls ride after school and after work I can feel the warmth and the breeze. I can feel my connection with the kids and horses and feel my face shift to a smile when someone jumps a good course. In every moment there are so many sensory inputs….
Dear Ones, We were in to see the head of radiology last Wednesday, he is terrific in so many ways, and he has a level of judgment regarding my body size, about which he feels no compulsion to suppress his opinion. Twiggy Which meant that when discussing scheduling the radiation simulation, he told me we…