Virgie Tovar

Humane, proper medical care should be something all people — regardless of status — have access to. Here are tips for medical self-advocacy for fat people.

There had only been room for a persona - a sunshiney child-parent. My mother and grandmother had always fixated on my childhood. It finally made sense how the happiest time of their lives could be my darkest.

Solidarity strategies are possible. They happen all the time — though often less frequently in the realm of romance, unfortunately.

I came to realize that even though I was certainly a bona fide member, that some fat people were far more acutely marginalized than me.

I wanted the photos to record exactly how I looked and felt in those moments – double chin and all. I’d like to encourage you to take the leap!

Shade is a resiliency tool constructed and wielded by those who have been forced to survive systems of unfairness. Shade isn’t polite, but everyone knows that the high road is over-sold to oppressed people! I knew I had to begin my own complete anthology of fat girl shade. And I thought I would start the chronicle here with Take the Cake. This tale is one from the vault, and it starts in high school.

It took me a long time to bury the dream of being thin. For some people it doesn’t take much to let go, and for others it’s a slow series of awakenings.

The reviews for the new Netflix movie Dumplin’

As much as I love the idea of family, I actually like not being married, and I actually like not being a mother right now.

Recently there’s been an uptick in fatphobic derailments, and I thought it would be helpful to share them as well my responses to them.