• In the spirit of two very different body acceptance moves — Isabelle Caro’s bold anti-anorexia campaign and Joy Nash’s Fat Rant [...]

  Pants, meet fire extinguisher

  September 26, 2007
• This is Isabelle Caro, a 27-year-old woman with anorexia, whose picture is being displayed all over Milan during fashion week as part of an ad [...]

  Cheers and Jeers: Anorexia ‘n’ Models Edition

  September 25, 2007
• So, I am verrrrry curious to read Gary Taubes’s new book, Good Calories, Bad Calories, after reading his recent articles in The New York [...]

  A New Ally, or a New Frenemy?

  September 25, 2007
• So, FILLYJONK TOTALLY BROKE THE COMMENTS THREAD on the “Three Things” post yesterday, which would be an only slightly less egregious [...]

  Off-Topic as all Hell: Let’s Talk about Names

  September 22, 2007

• Two observations sent to me recently by thin friends: From Spillah: I am sitting at my desk waiting for layouts and reading my Nepali phrasebook. [...]

  Ma Moto Chhu

  September 21, 2007
• 1. Conversation with one of Al’s co-workers… Co-worker: I’m on Weight Watchers. I’ve lost 20 pounds. Me [non-snarkily]: [...]

  Three Things

  September 21, 2007
• For your edification, some anagrams of “Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose.” I think there are some perfect options in here, both for [...]

  Ahead, skinless typographer!

  September 20, 2007
• You know, a big part of me doesn’t even want to know what’s going to come out of the conference in D.C. today called “The [...]

  The Obesity Challenge

  September 19, 2007

• So, every now and then I get tagged for one of those “Reveal 8 Weird Things about Yourself” memes. And I don’t respond because [...]

  Credibility

  September 19, 2007
• As you may have intuited from my posts about eating disorders and the difficulty of not dieting, I’m not yet a model of the demand-feeding [...]

  Feed a cold, starve a fever

  September 19, 2007