The Black Hair Tax: No Breaks for Black Women Who Want to Avoid Breakage
Your Worth is Not Measured by a Set of Scales: Overcoming Diet Culture
Even though I know I have come a long way from that little girl who prayed her puppy fat would disappear, I still have a long way to go. I have many days when I look in a mirror and wish the reflection staring back at me had smaller hips or bigger lips. But I am also someone who, on more days than not, can remind herself of what her body does for her. I am a woman who can now see that I deserve to take up as much space as I please…
Food Politics and Me: The Damaging Fetishisation of Weight Loss
To be a woman is to be predisposed to worry about weight and weight loss, to worry about the size and the curvature of your body and to question hunger and suppress its cues. Whether you’ve been influenced by the idolised actresses of your childhood or have subliminally acquired the habits of other women in your life, it’s not unusual for women to face both confrontational and innate pressure to look a certain way…