- 1. 10 Fanstastic New Books by Women to Make Catching Up on that New Year's Resolution to "Read More" a Breeze! ...
- (Books)
- ... of a culture that hates fat people and uses institutions, including media, medicine, and marriage, to reinforce that repulsion,” she writes. In the following 13-essay collection, Dionne lays out a compelling ...
- Created on 24 January 2023
- 2. How the Recent AI-Generated Avatar Trend Perpetuates the Western Male Gaze
- (Feminism)
- ... with the most innocent-seeming internet trends, women can’t escape the crushing weight of bigoted beauty standards. Aubrey Gordon, an anti-fatphobia author/activist who publishes under the name Your ...
- Created on 08 December 2022
- 3. Fat Activist Virgie Tovar's 5 Tips For Making This Your Summer of Body Positivity, Plus, Her New Guided Journa
- (Feminism)
- FAT ACTIVIST VIRGIE TOVAR’S STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE SEASON OF SELF-LOVE SUMMER IS A TIME of expansion and experimentation, when long, sunny days help germinate our biggest wishes and ...
- Created on 11 July 2022
- 4. Lizzo, Melanie Lynskey, Barbie Ferreira, And More Are Calling Out Body-Shamers
- (Entertainment)
- ... standard." And her response to people constantly talking about her weight? "Okay, we all know I'm fat," she sighed. "I know I'm fat. It doesn't bother me. I like being fat, and I'm beautiful and I'm healthy. ...
- Created on 14 March 2022
- 5. Watching "Tall Girl 2" While Black: Just How Much Of A Struggle Is Being Tall, Anyway
- (Movies)
- ... designer whose parents don’t want her to follow her passion, and her co-star is a brown kid who was fat-shamed). Even through these more difficult experiences, Jodi never really acknowledges the struggles ...
- Created on 02 March 2022
- 6. Want More Body Positive Kid's Books? Start Doing Better By Fat Characters, Says Children's Book Illustrat
- (Books)
- In this essay I use a word some might find offensive; fat. I choose to use this word not as an insult, but as a neutral descriptor, actively choosing to separate it from its typically negative connotations, ...
- Created on 25 February 2022
- 7. Stop calling your body 'midsize,' says Internet. But it's less clear about why you shouldn't use the t
- (Style)
- ... by people who would otherwise fit under the definition of “plus-size” as a way to distance themselves from fatness. While others, in the vein of Skinner’s commenters, derided the use of “midsize” as skinny ...
- Created on 29 June 2021
- 8. White Women Are Performatively Crying In A New TikTok Trend And It's Problematic as Hel
- (Entertainment)
- ... videos of white women fake crying online is a chilling reminder of how easily they have been able to fake emotional distress at the direct -- and often fatal -- expense of black people. And, judging by ...
- Created on 25 June 2021
- 9. Podcasting OG's Crissle West And Kid Fury of "The Read" Land A Historic Record Deal With Issa Rae’s Raedio Lab
- (Entertainment)
- ... Podcast Roxane Gay Talks Fat Liberation, Puppy Parenthood, And Teaching Her Own MasterClass On BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast! CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Reveals Why Her Future Is Feminist On BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast ...
- Created on 29 April 2021
- 10. TikTok "Vanilla-Shaming," The Glorification of Sexual Violence, And What We Can Do About I
- (Sex)
- ... partner or themselves is not just short-sighted—it can be dangerous, and even fatal. Attention was drawn to this issue in the UK in 2019, when British backpacker Grace Millane was strangled to death by ...
- Created on 02 March 2021
- 11. When Sexist Dress Codes Were Mandatory And Masks Were Not, These Students Fought Back
- (Living)
- ... students. Still, Rheeve and Going received negative comments such as “I’ll pass” or “Trump 2020,” with others claiming masks don’t work at all. Going, whose grandfather had passed away from the virus and ...
- Created on 02 September 2020
- 12. A Body-Positive Guide To Staying Healthy During The Pandemic
- (Living)
- No, we’re not here to tell you to put down the cake and hop on the treadmill, and we’re tired of the media, and social media, sending the message that fat is evil and we all must stay teeny-tiny during ...
- Created on 28 May 2020
- 13. Alicia Silverstone Opens Up About Dealing With Body-Shaming BS In Her 20s
- (Feminism)
- ... I knew they were wrong. I wasn’t confused. I knew that it was not right to make fun of someone’s body shape, that doesn’t seem like the right thing to be doing to a human.” The cruel nickname “Fatgirl” ...
- Created on 21 April 2020
- 14. Billie Eilish Strips In Protest of Body Shaming
- (Feminism)
- ... seen what’s underneath. “Nobody can be like, ‘she’s slim-thick,’ ‘she’s not slim-thick,’ ‘she’s got a flat ass,’ ‘she’s got a fat ass.’ No one can say any of that because they don’t know.” Fan recorded ...
- Created on 10 March 2020
- 15. Natasha Lyonne On Millennials, Maintaining Independence In Relationships, Healthy Adult Friendships, And "Russian Doll": BUST Intervie
- (TV)
- ... to discover that people are so similarly deranged.” Lyonne’s Nadia dies more than 20 times in Season One, coming back each time determined to rewrite her fate. “With my own experience,” explains Lyonne, ...
- Created on 04 February 2020
- 16. Instagram Is Taking Action Against Harmful Advertisements
- (Feminism)
- ... and health through the app's presence. Top photo courtesy of aitchisons at Pixabay / TeroVesalainenen More From Bust How Jameela Jamil Is Helping The Fight Against Fatphobia Macy’s And Forever ...
- Created on 19 September 2019
- 17. Looking Back At The Case of Aziz Ansari
- (Feminism)
- ... his fate being like a primate dying alone in the jungle after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct. He currently still resides in D.C. and Minnesota with his wife. Then, Supreme Court Justice ...
- Created on 18 September 2019
- 18. How Jameela Jamil Is Helping The Fight Against Fatphobia
- (Feminism)
- Jameela Jamil is the realest actress and activist around; and now her back fat in a promo for the TV show “The Good Place” is too. Using her celebrity platform to empower women, promote inclusivity, ...
- Created on 12 August 2019
- 19. Sexual Misconduct Isn't Sexy: Victoria's Secret Models Demand Chan
- (Feminism)
- ... show, as those demographics fall far from the Victoria’s Secret “fantasy.” Stocks have plummeted. Over 50 VS shops closed their doors for good earlier this year. Testimonies of fat-shaming in stores and ...
- Created on 07 August 2019
- 20. Fat Roles and Fat Rolls: What the Ursula Casting Tells Us About Roles for Fat Women and Femmes
- (Movies)
- You may have heard that Disney has cast Melissa McCarthy as Ursula in the upcoming Little Mermaid live action movie. If your timeline is anything like mine (full of fat people who are especially protective ...
- Created on 02 August 2019
