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We were thrilled when Shapeling A Sarah posted this poem as a rejoinder to a grossly fat-shaming one that is making its way around via email [...]
December 24, 2008
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Dearest Aunt Fattie, I need fat friends. As soon as possible, please. Over the past year I’ve really started to accept my body and practice [...]
July 21, 2008
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Dear Aunt Fattie, Over the past couple of months, I have embraced HAES, starting working on my negative body image, bought some pretty clothes in [...]
July 7, 2008
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Dear Aunt Fattie, Last summer one of my best friends (we’ll call her K) spent the day at the beach with another group of girls we hang out [...]
June 30, 2008
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Hi Aunt Fattie – So I’m a late-twenty-something lady who is dating another twenty-something lady. I am a curvy sort of lady who spent [...]
June 23, 2008
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Dear Aunt Fattie, I am starting law school in August. I am excited about school and my career plans. I did notice a problem when I was touring [...]
June 16, 2008
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Dearest Aunt Fattie, I was recently excited to stumble across an online dating site which includes a body shape descriptor – I prefer [...]
June 9, 2008
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Dear Aunt Fattie; I have a fat activism conundrum. I am (was?) a thin fat-acceptance ally, and a survivor of anorexia. Three weeks ago I gave [...]
June 2, 2008
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Dear Aunt Fattie, My father is dying. The end is very close – he’s in his final hours. In the past, I’ve always been unable to [...]
May 19, 2008
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Dear Aunt Fattie, I’m in a quandary. I’m a thirty-something woman, intelligent, fun, fat-accepting, and I have lots of good friends. [...]
May 5, 2008