By Anna Hamilton One common complaint leveled at modern intersectional feminism—particularly academic feminism and Women’s Studies—is that feminism that doesn’t exclusively focus on issues of...
The personal narrative is something I have avoid, because the naked honesty also leaves one extremely vulnerable to attack. Living in a marginalized body is difficult enough without showing one’s...
From Twitter to “The View,” the story of Donna Simpson's attempt to become the fattest woman in the world has made its rounds. The Daily Mail reports that Simpson is 42 years old and is a...
On February 13th, Kevin Smith was asked to vacate his seat on a Southwest airlines flight, on account of being "too fat" to fly. Smith is a very successful director, and when he decided to use...
BeautifulPeople.com hails itself as the first global networking website of its kind, offering free membership to an “exclusively beautiful community, founded for the purpose of creating personal...
America's foremost food evangelist, Michael Pollan, has a new article in the New York Times Magazine, decrying the decline of cooking in America and the outsourcing of our meals to corporations. He...
The diet and exercise industries earn billions of dollars annually. Many of its advertisements attempt to project the ultimate goal as health. However, the high numbers of women featured in their...