Virgie Tovar

This is a love song for those who showed me there was a thing called freedom, and it wasn’t closed-legged, and it wasn’t passable, that it was expensive and gaudy, and I wanted it, and I didn’t want it.

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.

By the time you read this, Babecamp Jamaica will be over. My 57 mosquito bites will have just stopped itching.

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

Fat liberation and fat people’s full humanity and our right to a life free from discrimination — not our health status.

A lot of people don’t know this, but fat activism has been around in the United States since the 1960s. Yes, it’s true!

To many who have experienced the gruesome reality that is diet culture I know 'You Have The Right To Remain Fat' makes complete sense.

It’s important to recognize that tiny or unsupportive seats (no matter how beautiful) send a silent but powerful message about who has the right to sit down. This message has strong ripple effects for a community that is already facing quite a bit of discrimination.

*Spoiler alert: some character-specific plot point reveals for the films

I thought I’d make a list of regular things that become “radical” (in the culture’s eyes) when you’re doing them while also being fat.