- 1. Fat Activist Virgie Tovar's 5 Tips For Making This Your Summer of Body Positivity, Plus, Her New Guided Journa
- (Feminism)
- ... Chin for the Win This summer, no more “flat- tering” selfies! Have you ever noticed how “flattering” and “looking as thin as possible” are the same thing? Not today, fat-phobia. Part of changing your ...
- Created on 11 July 2022
- 2. Lizzo, Melanie Lynskey, Barbie Ferreira, And More Are Calling Out Body-Shamers
- (Entertainment)
- ... “It’s so funny that people just assume that [I love myself]. What — did I say that? I never said that. You guys just say that. You posted that on me." Many fat-shamers argue that merely existing in a ...
- Created on 14 March 2022
- 3. 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
- 4. Want More Body Positive Kid's Books? Start Doing Better By Fat Characters, Says Children's Book Illustrat
- (Books)
- ... altogether. As a chubby child, I was hungry for representation of bodies like my own in the books I consumed. There have been books that have tackled fat-shaming and self-acceptance (check out ...
- Created on 25 February 2022
- 5. Alicia Silverstone Opens Up About Dealing With Body-Shaming BS In Her 20s
- (Feminism)
- As if you could dispute that Alicia Silverstone achieved instant icon status as Cher in the 1995 classic Clueless. Cher, a lovable, if a tad bit selfish, socialite was cute and charming, and the role ...
- Created on 21 April 2020
- 6. Instagram Is Taking Action Against Harmful Advertisements
- (Feminism)
- While technology has made it increasingly harder to go a day without consuming content that makes you feel not skinny enough, not pretty enough, and on and on and on, Instagram is addressing the role ...
- Created on 19 September 2019
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 9. Macy’s And Forever 21 Tried To Serve Fatphobia—Customers Didn’t Bite
- (Feminism)
- ... Commons / Hans Olav Lien / Caldorwards4 More from BUST Nike's Plus-Size Mannequins For Inclusivity Met With Fat-Phobic Outrage Dear Employer: Why Does My Body Bother You? "Intermittent Fasting" Diets ...
- Created on 24 July 2019
- 10. "Shrill" And The Journey to Fat Bitchdo
- (TV)
- ... us as pretty and for treating us like people. I almost have the same warm fuzzy feelings towards “Friends” as the next millennial except I skip the Monica-in-a-fat-suit episodes and every time a joke ...
- Created on 27 March 2019
- 11. Lindy West Talks "Shrill" On Hulu, Abortions On TV, And Fat Representatio
- (Entertainment)
- Fat acceptance writer and activist Lindy West has been wielding her pen like a sword for over a decade. Here, she dishes on her new Hulu show, writing large characters who actually get laid, and ranking ...
- Created on 15 March 2019
- 12. "The Good Place's" Jameela Jamil Will Not Stand For Avon's Body-Shaming
- (Living)
- ... product thanks to Jamil’s tweets. In December 2018, Jamil wrote the following in a BBC essay on why she believes airbrushing should be illegal: “It is anti-feminist. It is ageist. It is fat-phobic. ...
- Created on 23 January 2019
- 13. Is "Toxic Femininity" A Thing
- (Feminism)
- ... femininity,” she’ll probably point to slut-shaming, fat-shaming, pro-life women, and cattiness. If you ask a woman of color, she might talk about white feminism and de facto racism. If you ask a man about ...
- Created on 04 January 2019
- 14. Aidy Bryant Is Currently Filming "Shrill" Based on Lindy West's Book, And We Couldn't Be More Exci
- (TV)
- ... what I wanted to do, but I was like, Oh my god, someone who’s a little bit like me on TV.” Speaking to fans on Instagram over concerns about fat-shaming in her previous film I Feel Pretty, Entertainment ...
- Created on 03 August 2018
- 15. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Shuts Down Republican Who Called Her “This Girl Or Whatever She Is”: Link Roundup
- (Feminism)
- ... toxic fat-shaming. “For so long, the narrative has told women and young impressionable girls that in order to be popular, have friends, to be desirable for the male gaze, and to some extent be a worthy ...
- Created on 24 July 2018
- 16. "Dietland" Actress Erin Darke Tells Women's Stories: BUST Intervi
- (TV)
- ... Both the novel and its TV adaption tackle topics including body-shaming and sexual harassment, for instance. “I think about the fat-shaming storyline, and reading about it and then talking to Sarai, and ...
- Created on 18 July 2018
- 17. Week Of Women: April 20-26, 2018
- (Entertainment)
- ... and mixed reviews. Is it a sweet movie with a meaningful message about self-esteem, or an offensive, fat-shaming mess? We haven’t seen it yet, but we’re curious. Out Friday, April 20. Love & Bananas ...
- Created on 19 April 2018
- 18. Lauryn Hill Is Going On Tour For The 20th Anniversary Of "Miseducation": Link Roundu
- (Music)
- ... their will. Jezebel writes that THR interviewed a bunch of men who think that less than half a year is enough time to atone for sexually harassing women. Doctors Dismiss Woman’s Coughing as Fat-Related. ...
- Created on 18 April 2018
- 19. Nancy Pelosi Filibustered For Dreamers — For NINE HOURS
- (Living)
- ... fraternity has been put on probation for their “pig-roast,” a fat-shaming sex contest that they used to degrade women for years. Read more about how fraternities are literally the worst at the Washington ...
- Created on 08 February 2018
- 20. This New Year, Resolve To Stop Casual Fatphobia
- (Living)
- So, hello, brand new year. Unfortunately, it’s also hello to diet talk overload. Yup, it’s everywhere. The diet industry goes crazy in January. Over the years, I have managed to switch off from most of ...
- Created on 10 January 2018
