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Anorexia Nervosa

‘You Don’t Look Anorexic’ by Katie Siber

I Inherited My Eating Disorder, and Science Agrees by Michelle Konstantinovy

5 Myths About Atypical Anorexia by Molly Gwen

On Being a Fat Person with Anorexia by Zoey Jordan Salsbury

Coping with a Dieting Relative When You’re a Recovering Anorexic by JoAnna Novak

To the Bone: creating eating disorder awareness of doing harm? by Joanna Doley and Susan J. Paxton

Is Atypical Anorexia Really Atypical? The Interplay of Weight Suppression, Weight Bias, and Atypical Anorexia by Rachel Millner

The Difference Between “I have Anorexia” vs. “I am Anorexic” is a Bigger Deal than You Might Think by LaRissa Vienna

Anorexia and Bulimia Are Black Women’s Diseases, Too by Erica Hawkins

ARFID

Adults with ARFID by Lauren Muhlheim

When teaching BMI… by Lori Short-Zamudi

Obesity and Join Replacement. Part 1: Are BMI Restrictions Ethical?

Binge Eating Disorder

Is Weight Suppression Driving Your Binge Eating? by Lauren Muhlheim

A Harm Reduction Model for Loss of Control Eating by Kari Anderson

What is considered a binge? by Nina Mills

Negative Affect, Diabetes Distress Increase Risk for Binge Eating in Type 1 Diabetes by Anna Bella Zawahir

The #1 Medical Complication of Binge Eating Disorder is Poor General and Surgical Medical Care arising from Weight Stigma by Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani

A Screening Tool for Binge Eating Disorder

Body Image

A new study puts a massive price tag on America’s toxic beauty standards by S. Bryn Austin

A Harvard study found unrealistic beauty ideals cost the US economy $800 billion a year. Here’s how. by Anna Medaris

Society’s Beauty Standards Are Costing Us Billions of Dollars by Dianna Mazzone

Dove funds new report showing beauty standards are a public health crisis by Sara Spruch-Feiner

Jonah Hill, male body image and the conversation that needs to be had by Evan Ross Katz

Here’s How to Talk Yourself Down From a Bad Body Image Day by Iris Goldsztajn

What It Feels Like To Mourn Your Ideal Body by Addy Baird

It’s Time for a Culture of Consent around Body Talk by Your Fat Friend

10 “Will Powers” for Improving Body Image by Michael Levine and Linda Smolak

5 People Who Can Help You Love Your Body by Emma Pattee

One in Seven Adults Have ‘Suicidal’ Thoughts about Body Image

How Parents Can Build Healthy Food Habits and Body Image in Kids by Ginny Jones

How to Help Girls Feel Beautiful as Themselves by Nancy Gruver

The Tragedy of Body Shame in Women over 50 by Nicole Christina

Poor body image makes girls less assertive and risks health, study finds by Haroon Siddique

Expert resources for parents and mentors to help raise young people’s self-esteem

Negative Body Image and ‘The Red Car Syndrome’ by Jennifer Rollin

But I Don’t Want to Accept This Body…A Shoe Story by Anna Sweeney

Celebrating Body Diversity Among Students – And Teachers Too! by Kimberly Dark

Rippon’s body image comments highlight hidden struggle among gay men by John Paul Brammer

You Don’t Have to Love Your Body by Ijeoma Oluo

How to Talk about Body Image Issues When You’re Not Fat by Dawy Rkasnuam

This One Passage from Lindy West’s Memoir Transformed How I See My Body by Sadi Trombetta

Body Liberation

A pro-fat camp for women? Sign me up. by Jackie Molloy

I’m Fat And I Just Wore My First Bathing Suit In 3 Decades by Juliet James

The Inner Peace That Comes With Ditching Your “Skinny” Clothes by Sophie Hanson

Such a pretty face by Aubrey Gordon

Self-Love Without Social Change Ain’t It | The Curvy Fashionista

How Managers Can Support Employees with Chronic Illnesses by Alyson Meister and Victoria Woolfrey

Why I’m Rejecting My Usual #BodyGoals Resolutions in 2021 by Aubree Nichols

11 Honoré Founder: I’m Not Here To ‘Crush It.’ I’m Here To Build A Sustainable Business For Plus-Size Customers by Virgie Tovar

I’m A Plus-Size, Iranian-American Actress, But I Don’t Want That To Be My Headline by Natasha Behnam

So, You Got Fat: 8 Steps Towards Body Liberation by Rachael Hope

My Journey Toward Radical Body Positivity by Matt McGorry

Why I’ve Chosen Body Liberation Over Body Love by Jes Baker

Love at Every Size: Healthy, Happy, and at Home in your Body by Jen Ponton

My Wedding Was Perfect and I was Fat as Hell the Whole Time by Lindy West

Can Gen X Women Love Their Bodies? by Amy Keller Laird

What Is Weight-Neutral Workplace Wellness and Why Should we Consider it? by Rebecca Johnson

Confronting and Crushing Weight-Gain Anxiety by Briana Hernandez

10 Tips for Radically Loving Your Body (Disabled or Otherwise) by Taylor Carmen

Body Liberation is Not about Eating Donuts by Maria Paredes

Making Peace with My Body Meant Saying Goodbye to High Heels by Anna Sweeney

Body Positivity

Lizzo criticized body positivity. Here’s what you need to know about body neutrality. by Sara Moniuszko

How We Show It: Bodies by Virginia Sole-Smith

The Truth About Body-Positive Activists on Social Media by Ginelle Testa

The Blatant Ableism In The Body Positivity & Fat Positivity Movement by Katie Cloyd

Body Positivity: Overcoming Body Shame by Rebecca Scritchfield

Why Are Women of Colour Left Out Of Body Positivity? by Stephanie Yeboah

These are the 30 Best Body Positive Books You Can Read by Kelly Jensen

How Whiteness Killed the Body Positive Movement by Kelsey Miller

Body Positivity Has Lost All Meaning in 2020 by Marie Southard Ospina

Why You Should Trade Body Positivity for Fat Acceptance by Prapti Sarkar

Body Positivity is a Scam by Amanda Mull

50 Body Positive Influencers You Should Follow by Mallory Creveling

How to Feel Normal When the World Says You’re Too Big by Virgie Tovar

Why I’m At Peace With My Weight Gain by Ginelle Testa

The Body Positivity Movement Isn’t for Me, So I’ll be Seeking Fat Acceptance Elsewhere by Katie Greenall

Work Redux | Bodies by Jamie Schumacher

Body-Positive Blogger Dubbed ‘Plus-Size Ken’ Aims to Help Men Accept Their Bodies as They Are by Brian Skellenger

Ask Bodyposipanda: How do I deal with people saying I’ve ‘let myself go’ since finding body positivity? by Megan Jayne Crabbe

Books that Teach Body Positivity to Your Kids by Isabelle Khoo

13 easy ways to help yourself actually live body positivity by Arielle Tschinkel

Best Body Positive Instagram Accounts by Meredith Noble

Six Queer BIPOC Voices in the Body Positive Movement by Donyae Coles

Bulimia Nervosa

I Was Bulimic Before People Knew What an Eating Disorder Was. Now I’m Done Keeping the Secret. by Maureen Kritzer-Lang

There’s a Strong Link Between Bulimia and Past Sexual Abuse by Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro

The Connections Between the Brain and Urges to Binge and Purge by Tammy Beasley

Anorexia and Bulimia Are Black Women’s Diseases, Too by Erica Hawkins

Children, Dieting, and Weight Loss

7 Steps For When A Kid Asks, “Am I Fat?” by Virgie Tovar

New study warns young children may be susceptible to eating disorders by Yi-Jin Yu

What Not to Say to Kids About Food and Body Image by Rachel Uda

What to Expect When Your Child has an Eating Disorder by Judy Krasna

Want More Body Positive Kid’s Books? Start Doing Better By Fat Characters, Says Children’s Book Illustrator by Phoebe Wahl

As a fat kid, my deepest wounds came from words my mother said by Lisa Fipps

10 Tips to Help Your Kids be Happy, Healthy and Body Empowered! by Gillian Goerzen

What happens when a child’s teacher is the lunch box police? by Kelly Fullerton

Stop talking about your dieting in front of children, experts warn, as eating disorders rise by Jacqui Street

Should You Worry About Your Kid’s Pandemic Weight Gain? by Virginia Sole-Smith

School warnings about children’s weight don’t work, study says by Sandee LaMotte

To Parents of Kids with Eating Disorders (Especially Those Who Don’t Fit the Stereotype) by Rachel Millner

Help! My kid has been sent home with a serve of diet culture; Your guide to keeping your sh*t together AND taking effective action by Fiona Sutherland

No, Your Child is Not Addicted to Sugar by Leslie Schilling

A School Nutrition Lesson: The Edible Parts of a Plant by Anna Lutz

Optimizing Healthy Eating Habits in the Classroom by Elisheva Dorfman and Dina Cohen

Are School Health Lessons Harming Kids? by Leslie Schilling

F.E.A.S.T. Position Statement on Weight Watchers Kurbo App

Raising Competent Eaters: Food Neutrality by Jamie Lee, RDN, LD

What Happens When You Put a Kid on A Diet? by Rachel Millner, Psy.D, CEDS-S, CBTP

Please Don’t Teach My Kids to Diet: 5 Resources to Give Teachers and Schools by Anna Lutz

Let’s Talk About Halloween Candy by Dana Sturtevant and Hilary Kinavey

Banning soda, sugary cereal or ice cream for your kids may not be the best strategy by Casey Seidenberg

Weight Watchers Offering Free Memberships to Teens (AKA Future Of Yo-Yo Dieting) by Joni Edelman

Weight Watchers is targeting teens with a new free program. That’s a problem. by Rebecca Scritchfield

The Trouble with Food Policing in Schools by Leslie Schilling

An Open Letter to my Daughter’s Camp Counselor by Anna Lutz

An Alternative to a Proposed Guideline Suggesting Weight Loss for Kids by Rebecca Scritchfield

An Open Letter to Jamie Oliver by Laura Thomas, Sarah Dempster, Helen West and Rosie Saunt

Let’s smash school weigh-ins and teach kids body positivity instead by McCall Dempsey

How to Make Kids Comfortable in Their Own Bodies by Melinda Wenner Moyer

5 Ways Parents of Preschoolers Can Raise a Body-Positive Kid by Sierra Filucci

How to Talk to your Daughter about her Body by Sarah Koppelkam

Your Adolescent Daughter Doesn’t Have a Weight Problem. She’s Going Through Puberty by Maryann Jacobsen

COVID-19

Seeing People for the First Time in a Year? Don’t Comment On Their Bodies by Elizabeth Gulino

Eating Disorders in Teens Have ‘Exploded’ in the Pandemic by Lisa Damour

How COVID Has Impacted Communities of Color—And How We Can Move Forward by Whitney Trotter

Banish Anxiety About Your Post-Lockdown Looks by A.C. Shilton

Trapped in the House With an Eating Disorder by Virginia Sole-Smith

Pandemic fueling a sharp rise in eating disorders, Bay Area experts say by Annie Vainshtein

Eating Disorders Surge in St. Lois. Doctors blame stress, isolation. from pandemic by Kayla Drake

During Covid, Eating Disorder Patients Turn to Apps by Michelle Konstantinovsky

A New Study Looks at 1,000 People Living with Eating Disorders During the Pandemic. I’m One of Them. by Michelle Konstantinovsky

Lockdown ‘glow-up’? We’ve done enough already by Eva Wiseman

The First Data on COVOID-19 And Teens’ Mental Health is Here – And It’s Not Good by Catherine Pearson

Your COVID-19 ‘Choose-Your-Own-Adventure’ Mental Health Guide by Sam Dylan Finch

Diet Culture

‘Diet Culture’ Isn’t Just About Smoothies and Food-Tracking Apps by Christine Byrne

Why Do We Still Pretend Diets Work? by Margaret Wheeler Johnson

Health Experts Explain the Hidden Dangers of Yo-Yo Dieting by Marisa Cohen

There’s No Such Thing as an Empty Calorie by Christine Bryne

Keep the diet industry from feeding on teenagers’ fears by Thomas B. Hildebrandt and S. Bryn Austin

The Truth About That New Diet Drug by Christy Harrison

This Is What You’re Telling Your Fat Friends When You Succumb To Diet Culture by Katie Cloyd

Thanks for all the dietary advice. Don’t expect me to pay attention to any of it by Jay Rayner

Let’s Reject Diet Culture This New Year by Dalia Kinsey

Why This Dietitian Doesn’t Believe In The Word ‘Overeating’ by Katherine Metzelaar

Aubrey Gordon, the writer behind ‘Your Fat Friend,’ has some thoughts on diets, BMI and the relentless advice of strangers by Dawn Fallik

The Unbearable Weight of Diet Culture by Jessica Teich

Why people are expected to lose weight in the new year, and why many still want to by Kerry Justich

I’m Not Buying into Diet Culture This New Year – Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Either by Lisette Hoschek

The Hidden (Emotional) Harm of Dieting by Ragen Chastain

Today’s Teens More Likely to Diet Compared to Past Generations, Study Shows by Cara Rosenbloom

No, Sugar Isn’t the New Heroin by Traci Mann

We’ll Never Achieve True Wellness if We’re All Too Hungry to Get the Job Done by Laura Thomas

Rethinking Food Addiction by Mikalina Kirkpatrick with Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant

Emotional Eating and the Sweet Spot of Discomfort by Vania Phitidis

Think You Have A Sugar Addiction? Here’s Why Cutting Out Sugar Might Actually Backfire by Laura Thomas

Eating Toward Immortality: Diet culture is just another way of dealing with the fear of death by Michelle Allison

The not-so-obvious problem with dieting by Melissa Toler

Why You Can’t Lose Weight on a Diet by Sandra Aamodt

A Handy Guide to the Toxic Language of Diet Culture by Rosie Spinks, Annaliese Griffin, and Indrani Sen

Disability Justice

Supporting Kids with Disabilities with Body Esteem by Lara Minges

‘Year of the Tiger’ By Alice Wong Is a Letter to Asian American Disabled Women and Girls by Alice Wong

Disordered Eating

The Majority of Women in America Have Disordered Eating — Many Without Even Knowing It by Stephanie Dolgoff

Intermittent Fasting: The Meal-Skipping Fad by Paul Ernsberger

Food addiction is a hot topic. A dietitian sorts the facts from feelings by Carrie Dennett

The Monotony of Family Meals Can Trigger Past Disordered Eating by Virginia Sole-Smith

Responsive Feeding Therapy: Values and Practice by Rowell et al.

IgG Food Intolerance Tests Continue to Mislead Consumers in to Unnecessary Dietary Restrictions by Scott Gavura

My Whole Identity Was Health and Wellness. My Reality was Disordered Eating by Christy Harrison

Kim Kardashian-Jameela Jamil feud has done more to expose detox tea lies than the FDA by S. Bryn Austin, SD

Chronic Dieting: The Socially Acceptable Eating Disorder by Caroline Dooner

Diet Christmas: when did the holiday season become a time for disordered eating? by Deirdre Fidge

Eating Disorders

Sleep and Eating Disorders | within health

Her Virtual Platform Provides At-Home Treatment for Eating Disorders by Victoria Flexner

The Overlap Between Eating Disorders and Gastrointestinal Disorders by Theresa Hedrick

Why I’m speaking openly about my experience with an eating disorder by Jessica Horner

6 Ways To Create An Eating Disorder Informed Workplace by Virgie Tovar

Eating Disorders During the College Years by Michael French

Why Wouldn’t Your Nutritionist Have An Eating Disorder? by Margaret Wheeler Johnson

Invisible Women: Eating Disorders at Midlife by Margo Maine

One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The Need to Improve Eating Disorder Assessment Tools by Sonakshi Negi, Neha Goel, and Erik Benau

No one should be dying from an eating disorder in 2021 by Hope Virgo

Shared Genetic Risk of Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorders by Melissa A. Munn-Chernoff

How Food Insecurity and Eating Disorders are Connected by Patrilie Hernandez

Emerging Adulthood: A Time When Treatment is Less Available, Eating Disorders Review by Eating Disorders Review

Awareness of Eating Disorders in Human Trafficking Vitctims by Mary-Elizabeth Schurrer

Eating disorders cost US $65 billion a year: Here’s what agencies can do by Bryn Austin, Christine Peat, and Cynthia Bulik

Veganism and eating disorders: Is there a link? by Carrie Dennett

Opinion: It’s time we act to prevent eating disorders by Alvin Tran

Ask a Fat Girl: Eating Disorders Happen at Any Size by Charlotte Zoller

How the healthcare system is failing people with eating disorders by Pamela Keel

Gut Instinct: Eating Disorders are Early Developmental Trauma by Kathleen Love

Eating disorders: Over-65s unable to access some clinics by Meghan Owen and Anna Adams

I’m Giving My Eating Disorder Away by Sam Dylan Finch

GI Disorders + Food Fears by Kate Scarlata

The Future of Genetic Research on Eating Disorders by Cynthia Bulik

Is Your Child’s Target Weight a Gift to the Eating Disorder? by Eva Musby

I Interviewed My Parents About My Eating Disorder by Brittany Ladin

How Eating Disorders Can Affect Anyone

Eating Disorders Can Mask Autism in Girls by Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Creating Accessible Yoga Spaces for People with Eating Disorders by Jennifer Kreatsoulas

Poly-substance Abuse and Eating Disorders in College Students by Crystal Karges

The Overlooked Crisis of Eating Disorders Among Middle Aged Women by Carrie Dennett

Here are 3 Ways Sexual Objectification and Eating Disorders Interact by Melissa A. Fabello

Dear Mom and Dad, Thank You for Saving My Life by Kinsey Ouellette

More Older Women are Struggling with Eating Disorders. Here are the Warning Signs by Kristen Sturt

Living in Secrecy: My 20 Year Eating Disorder Battle by Shira Rose

4 Stereotypes about Eating Disorder and Gender that Need to Go by Melissa A. Fabello

Extreme fasting: how Silicon Valley is rebranding eating disorders by Arwa Mahdawi

Battling My Body: Being Queer with an Eating Disorder by Laura Bullard

The Stigma is Real: Self-blame and explanations for eating disorders by Andrea

I preached body positivity – and sunk deeper into my eating disorder at the same time by Sam Dylan Finch

The World’s Deadliest Psychiatric Disorder by Emily Kate

America is Utterly Failing People of Color with Eating Disorders by Angela Garbes

What is Night Eating Syndrome? Signs, symptoms and treatment of the condition by Lauren Mulheim

Warning: Looking and Lamenting may be Lethal by Sandra Wartski

Hope is Essential When Working with People Who Have “Chronic” Eating Disorders by John Levitt

The Unmeasureables of an Eating Disorder by Jennifer Gaudiani

Wellness Programs and Eating Disorders: A Potentially Lethal Combination by Al Lewis

Thanksgiving, eating disorders and why we should stop obsessing about food on the holidays by Alia E. Dastagir

Rethinking Eating Disorders as Misguided Life Savers Trying to Help Us, Not Beasts Trying to Attack Us by Ginny Jones

An Open Letter to Dr. Phil about Eating Disorders by Colleen Reichmann

5 Phrases to Never Say at the Dinner Table to Avoid Eating Disorders by Ginny Jones

How Pro-Eating Disorder Posts Evade Filters on Social Media by Louise Matsakis

Disabled People Can Have Eating Disorders, Too by Micaela Evans

How Fat Shaming Leads to Eating Disorders by Ragen Chastain

Eating Disorders and Suicide by Kathryn Gordon

Don’t Tell Demi Lovato, or Any Woman Who Has Suffered with an Eating Disorder, to go on a Diet by Bonnie McLaren

Eating Disorder and Diabetes

Sugar doesn’t cause diabetes by Erin Phillips

Eating disorders worsen health, quality of life for teens with diabetes by Ann Goebel-Fabbri

Diabetes and Eating Disorders: It’s About Time People Started Listening by Claire Kearns

Eating Disorder Recovery

Let’s Talk About Recovery Yoga by Megan Bazzini

Five Essential Steps for Recovery by Amy Cunningham

Emotion Coaching for Meal Support: A Brain Hack for Decreasing Resistance by Adele Lafrance

What is Mirror Exposure Therapy? And does it work? by Arash Emamzadeh

The Reality of Dealing with Your Recovered Body After an Eating Disorder by Harriet Williamson

Letting Go of Control: Healing My Eating Disorder by Embracing My Queerness by Elizabeth Cooper

7 Reasons Why “Just Eat” is Not Going to Cure my Eating Disorder by Sam Dylan Finch

Three Essential Steps to My Recovery: Rage. Reclamation. Relationship. by Carmen Cool

Crushing your doubts in eating disorder recovery – a dietitian’s perspective by Sona DeLurgio

Embracing a new body in ED Recovery by Carissa Shaul

Reduce Body Checking with Two Easy Steps by Liliana Almeida

Health at Every Size and Eating Disorders: How Health at Every Size can help with eating disorder recovery by Lauren Muhlheim

Returning to the Progress of Recovery by OJ

Eating Disorder Treatment

Eating Disorders to be Tackled with Early Intervention Treatment Amid Pandemic Rise by Daisy Lester

Eating Disorder Treatment is Broken, and Only Abolition Can Fix It by Róisín S

The Quest to Make Eating Disorder Treatment More Inclusive by Cole Kazdin

Eating disorder treatments need to consider social, cultural implications of the illness

Treating Adolescents and Adults in the Same Milieu by Doug Bunnell

Who’s Considered Thin Enough for Eating Disorder Treatment? by Virginia Sole-Smith

The Difference Between IOP and PHP Eating Disorder Programs by Libby Lyons

Have Recommendations for Weight Restoration and Specialized Treatment Been Overturned? F.E.A.S.T Position Statement, October 2018

The Problem with ‘Clean Eating’ in Eating Disorder Recovery by Jennifer Rollin

Fat Activism

These Flower Tattoos are Designed to Celebrate Body Rolls by Alex Peters

20 Truly Inclusive Plus-Size Clothing Brands by Lindley Ashline

What’s It Like to See a ‘Fat-Friendly’ Doctor? by Seraphina Seow

Fatphobia and Fat Activism in Social-Impact Spaces by Amy Bergen

With Shrill, Aidy Bryant and Lindy West Revolutionized How We See Bodies on TV by Adrienne Westenfeld

Across Three Seasons, Shrill Quietly Revolutionized the Portrayal of Fat Women on Television by Amy McCarthy

Shrill Doesn’t Need Closure by Jen Chaney

Rethinking Fatness: Everything You’ve Been Told About Weight May Be Wrong by Meryl Davids Landau

What It’s Really Like to Date as a Fat Woman by Virgie Tovar

Reading While Fat

Dear Fat Person, Get the Vaccine and Don’t Feel Guilty by Ragen Chastain

It’s Time to Retire ‘You’re Not Fat, You’re Beautiful!’ by Your Fat Friend

How LiveJournal Fatshionistas Taught Me To Love My Fat Body by Crystal Maldonado

Community origins of the term “Superfat” by Cherry Midnight and Max Airborne

What we need to learn about fat acceptance by Ameya Nagarajan

After Years of Writing Anonymously About Fatness, I’m Telling the World Who I Am by Aubrey Gordon

Lizzo’s Body is Not a Political Battlefront by Rasheed Ajamu

It’s Time to Stop Asking How We Can Help Fat People Love Themselves by Your Fat Friend

Dating While Fat: You Don’t Owe Anyone an Explanation of Your Body by Charlotte Zoller

Where to Buy Plus Size Clothing in 6x and 7x | Shopping Guide by Brianne Huntsman

I am What They Fear: Healing from Eating Disorders While Fat by Ana Velasquez

Like Tess Holliday, I’m Fat And I Just Want To Live My Damn Life by Juliet James

Why the trope of the fat, unlikeable character in books needs to end by Heather Jones

Fat Studies, Body and Desirability Politics: A Reading List by Da’Shaun Harrison

The Feminist History of Fat Liberation by Sarah Simon

Clothing the Fat Body 101 by Amelia Mitchell

13 Things Your Plus-Size Guests Want You to Know this Holiday Season by Rebecca Alexander

What I Appreciate Most from Thinner Friends by Your Fat Friend

I Do Not Owe You Health: Fat Movements Rethinking Equality by Georgia Cristiani

10 Vital Ways to Support Fat Students on Campus by Kacie Otto

Fat is Not a Bad Word by Ashleigh Shackelford

Your fat friends need you as an ally. This is how you can be one by Chloe Papas

A Toolkit for Fat Flyers by Your Fat Friend

Is It Ok to Call Fat People Fat? by Ragen Chastain

Every Fat Person, Healthy or Not, Deserves Respect by Sarah Hallowell

Where to Buy Plus-Size Activewear by Nora Whelan

Essay: I’m the heaviest woman to complete a marathon by Ragen Chastain

9 Novels that Show Fat People as Themselves by Evette Dionne

Dianne Bondy is #Whatayogilookslike by Melaine Klein

Rebecca Alexander Is the Queer Fat Woman Behind AllGo, an App That Will Change the World for People of Size by Vanessa Friedman

51 Ways to Make the World Less Hostile to Fat People by Dani Beckett

9 Facts Shatter the Biggest Stereotypes About People Who are Fat by Julianne Ross

Take the Cake: A Fat Feminist Watches ‘I Feel Pretty’ by Virgie Tovar

Fat Phobia Affects Everyone by Sabrina Strings

The Unbearable Weight of Fatphobia: A conversation with Samantha Irby by Sherronda J. Brown

Fat Phobia and Anti-Fat Bias

Understanding Fatphobia Through the Lens of Attachment Theory by Virgie Tovar

I’m Fat and Diabetic. Here’s Why Your ‘Concern’ for my Health is Destructive. by Juliet James

I’m a Fat Activist. I Don’t Use the Word Fatphobia. Here’s Why by Your Fat Friend

Fat-shaming by doctors, family, classmates is a global health problem, studies find by Sandee LaMotte

Fat-Shaming People Won’t Improve Their Health by Christine Byrne

The Millennial Vernacular of Fatphobia by Anne Helen Petersen

the demonisation of fatness | earth to venus

Can We Dismantle Fatphobia on the Red Carpet? by Marielle Elizabet

Your Covid vaccine earned you a Krispy Kreme — with a side of fat shaming you should ignore by Kate Bernyk

The Harmful and Insidious Effects of Fatphobia by Stephanie Dolgoff

Luxury Fashion Won’t End Fatphobia by Andréa Becker

Why ‘thrift flipping’ clothes isn’t as ethical as it seems by Liza Bautista and Meghan Keeney

Public Health’s Power-Neutral, Fatphobic Obsession with “Food Deserts by Marquisele Mercedes

Fatphobia vs Friendship: How Diet Culture Harms Relationships by Kellee Rich (*Please note that the author inaccurately credits Lindo Bacon for starting the Health at Every Size movement. You can about the history of fat liberation and HAES here.)

When You Talk About Donald Trump’s Body, Every Fat Person You Know Hears You by Juliet James

What You Call Internalized Fatphobia Might Be Internalized Dominance by Your Fat Friend

The Unbearable Whiteness and Fatphobia of “Anti-Diet” Dietitians by Marquisele Mercedes

To Hell with Fatphobia? Working through the contradictions of weight loss and body positivity by Philippe Leonard Fradet

Not a fan of fat shaming? Stop thin praising by Afshan Jafar

The Fantasy of Being Thin by Kate Harding

What do I do now that I’m fat? by Juliana Sartor

Plus-sized? I understand why you want to lose weight, but… by Meredith Noble

Body Shame is Not a Diet Plan by Renee Engeln

Fat Shaming is the Norm in our Kids’ Favorite Shows and It’s Making Them Hate Their Bodies by Ashley Austrew

‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ Promotes a Weight Loss Fantasy by Your Fat Friend

Where Does Fat Phobia Come From? by Heather Ashbach