Nerdy Feminist

[Content note: fatphobic/weight/food stuff.] I talk about this nearly every year. January is the season to truly hate our bodies. We come ...

[Image text: Melissa McCarthy as a spy with a gun, but dressed as an older woman in a pink track suit and cat shirt] I had a chance to s...

[Content note: fatphobia, body shaming] A while back,  I published a submitted photo on Tumblr where a fat woman was doing a move on a po...

[Content note: fat shaming, fatphobia, weight loss] I wasn't surprised to see a few "fat suit" costumes come across my newsf...

[Content note: fat shaming] I love Gabourey Sidibe. She's a great actress. She's one of the very few visible feisty fat ladies in...

In running FacebookSexism , this is a popular sentiment shared by misogynists: [Image text, a comment from "BIG SARGE" which r...

[Content note: discussions of fatphobia and body shame] I write and talk a lot about my experience as a fat woman and the wider systems of...

[Content note: mentions of weight, body shame] It's no secret that I embrace body positivity and denounce fatphobia. Two seconds on th...

[Content note: fatphobia, body shaming] There's been a lot of talk about Gabourey Sidibe's dress at the Golden Globes and the nega...

[Content note: fat shaming, body shaming, rape "jokes"] Ya know...The Mindy Project is probably the most troubling show I watch....

[Content note: New Year weight loss stuffs] Fa la la la...Sigh. It doesn't really have the same ring does it? So it's January. A...

[Content note: Weight stuff] Dear Coworkers, I don't know if many of you will ever see this, but please know that I love you. I love...

[Content note: weight talk] I know everyone is probably blogging about the VMAs today, and I'll just leave that for them because I h...

[Content note: body talk, fatphobia] Ah yes, it is the time of year when we hear messages around us like, "Is your body beach ready?...

[Content note: body shaming, weight talk] I feel like at the outset I should mention that this is a pretty personal post for me. It's ...

[Content note: discussions of weight] Ya know, I was just thinking how nice it was to see many women who were not extremely thin at the Gr...

It still kind of amazes me when self-described feminists have blind spots for intersectional privileges. It shouldn't; but it does. ...

[Content note: discussions of weight, fatphobia, diet, exercise.] My love of Lesley Kinzel is well documented . ( Seriously .) So when a...

[Content note: discussion of body shaming, rape culture, victim blaming, street harassment.] Goodness, women sure take a lot of shit when ...

A couple of things I encountered recently got my wheels turning. First, I've been reading Cunt and one of the things that Inga Muscio...