[in]Visible Magazine

Skinny is to beautiful as obese is to… Ugly? Repulsive? Lazy? The ease with which such words come to our minds speaks to the embarrassingly seamless connection that has developed between fatness and all of its negative connotations. However much our obsession with appear­ance has progressed since the olden days of pow­dered wigs and foot […]

Nobody looks at me and assumes that I have an eat­ing disorder. I am larger than what is acceptable by most societal standards of beauty. I avoid form-fitting clothing, because anything that pinches makes me more aware of my body than I’d like to be. While the fight between my desire to be healthy and […]