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There are four blog topics I’ve been thinking about that are all tangled together. Common threads weave through them and they are all part of the same story. Really, it’s a story about strength, gender normativity, and women’s muscular bodies. First, Catherine wrote about the names we use to describe our bodies. Catherine’s focus is […]

via Where are the muscular, larger women’s bodies? — FIT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE

 

Where are the muscular, larger women’s bodies? — FIT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE

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It has become quite a popular practice to calculate the “costs” of fat people. (As if it’s ok to decide that a group of people with shared physical characteristics should be eradicated to make things cheaper for everyone else.) There are many, many problems with the calculations, but I think it’s important to realize that…

via The High Cost of Fatphobia — Dances With Fat

The High Cost of Fatphobia — Dances With Fat

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It’s New Years, which means that people close to you – family, friends, co-workers etc. – will very likely be going on diets. For those of us who have managed to get ourselves off the diet roller coaster, this can be an especially tough time. Not only are we being bombarded with ads to try…

via How to Deal When Your Friends Go On Diets — Dances With Fat

How to Deal When Your Friends Go On Diets — Dances With Fat

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Debating around Health at Every Size (HAES) is something that has been coming up a lot in e-mails that I’m answering so I decided to just address it here. Before I get too far into this, a quick reminder that Health at Every Size is a paradigm for health and healthcare (including mental health, personal…

via Health at Every Size and the Burden of Proof — Dances With Fat

Health at Every Size and the Burden of Proof — Dances With Fat

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Alex Hutchinson, writing in the Globe and Mail, asks “Why are female test subjects still being excluded from exercise research?” Lots of friends shared that story on social media, expressing WTF? levels of surprise. To those of us writing here on this blog, it wasn’t news. Pretty much whenever I share stories about the results […]

via Dear exercise scientists: Where are the women? — FIT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE

Dear exercise scientists: Where are the women? — FIT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE