Virgie Tovar

It takes a lot of ongoing effort, labor, and love to fight for justice and to question the culture. People in the “choir” opt out of fitting in or playing nice. We dedicate a lot of time to being conscientious citizens.

After years and years of fatphobia-induced body dysmorphia, it’s hard to actually just see my body with anything approaching objectivity. But when I finally looked at the photos of myself in my underwear, I knew there was nothing that fatphobia or my inner asshole could do to take away the beauty and the magic that was right before my eyes.

Fat positivity creates room for fat people to be seen with full humanity — not as failed thin people, but as complete and precious.

Why do men text me about their dicks all the time? Do thin women get this many texts about penises?

I can think of few things more worthy of celebrating on International Women’s Day than the slow and very public decline of a company that has capit

Hi, my name is Virgie and I’m a fat girl who loves food. During my years of restricting I thought about food more than I thought about most things.

Would you date a fat fetishist? It always feels complicated to answer this question, but I promise an honest one by the end of part two.

It all started with a text from my roomie, Kori: "I am manifesting lying out, and getting some sun on my cooch."

The other night, I was eating capellini with asparagus and shrimp with a new friend/Babecamp Jamaica alum.

The word “bully” makes us think we’re talking about a tiny handful of anti-social individuals when in fact we’re talking about a group of people.