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Jameson
@jameson
from easy shopping to better job and romantic opportunities, society promotes and rewards thinness and punishes fat.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology
it’s hard not to feel like the charm industrial complex is monetizing all our darkest anxieties. No one likes to be taken advantage of by a complex.
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
Central to fat activism is the belief that obesity is only considered unhealthy because of fat hatred and because we put too much trust in scientific discourses. This view is highly seductive to many dangerously obese people, particularly women, who have found it very difficult to lose weight. Rather than seek medical or psychological support, they
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Jamie Banks
@jamiebanks_1
Franchesca Ramsey, an activist and actress who gained fame from a series of viral YouTube videos, writes about this poignantly in her book Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist.
Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips • The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World
This felt REALLY FUCKING WEIRD. I used to be a human female. I was now Teddy Ruxpin.
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
he emphasized the videos' realness—“