by Miriam Villchur Berg A chair is the most mundane of objects. It can be beautiful, of course, but it is first and foremost functional. It is considered a symbol… Read More »For Want of a Chair — Standing Up for the Right to Sit Down
by Amy Herskowitz, MSc For the last 18 months of my father’s life, he was severely physically disabled from a terminal, neurodegenerative disease. He went from being a tall, strapping… Read More »Finding Support In Your Community
by Miriam Villchur Berg In my work with the Council on Size & Weight Discrimination, I answer emails from students on all levels, from middle school through graduate school. I… Read More »Helping Students with Anti-Bias Projects
by Virgie Tovar, MA I travel around the country lecturing at universities about the harmful effects of diet culture and fat shaming. We live in a culture in which most… Read More »Ending Diet Culture One Babe At A Time!
by Annie Goldsmith, RD, LDN Recently, a research article with an interesting title landed in my inbox: “Metabolically Normal Obese People are Protected from Adverse Effects Following Weight Gain¹”. As a… Read More »An Exploration of Weight Bias in the Primary Source Literature
by Sandra Cruzen In December, the Blog Committee announced our decision to “open up” the blog and ask for submissions from our readers who are HAES advocates/practitioners/activists, but who may… Read More »The Gift of Obesity
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA Selfies are a well-established part of our culture at this point. By 2013, the word “selfie” had made its way into the Oxford Dictionary, which… Read More »#Selfies
Happy 2015! And now a word from our sponsor (ASDAH). Just say NO! to New Year resolutions that involve damaging your self-esteem, messing with your metabolism and reinforcing the need… Read More »2014 In Review
by David Spero, RN When a fat person dies, many people say s/he died because s/he was fat. That’s the standard narrative, so we don’t need facts to support it… Read More »Murder at the Intersection of Fat and Black
by Dr. Deah Schwartz The brain is a mysterious, complex and marvelous thing. No News there. The ability to selectively remember some things and conveniently forget another is astounding! No… Read More »News Flash! Did You Hear The Beatles Broke Up??