Virgie Tovar
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Virgie Tovar Articles
I told you I never wanted to speak to him again. I offered that we work together to rid him from our lives. I thought we had both made the realization that he was garbage, but in reality, only I had.
Read...When we both moved to San Francisco in our 20s, she moved to a wealthy neighborhood and I moved into a neighborhood where old men had phone sex on the pay phone at the laundromat. Our friendship threatened her world in a way that it didn’t mine. The people I knew had neither wealth to protect nor any desire to play at that game, and so their lives were inspired by a freedom I adored. The kind of freedom that allows you to talk about shitting and fucking over dinner.
Read...Last week I was sitting anywhere between nineteen and thirty-seven feet from Kevin Bacon.
Read...Fat liberation and fat people’s full humanity and our right to a life free from discrimination — not our health status.
Read...Ali Abbassi’s ‘Border’ movie ultimately reminded me of what happens when we meet someone who reflects our power back to us.
Read...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
Read...For the past two weeks, I’ve met up with my friend Caya in the Mission for acupuncture and pupusas/pizza/both. #HighlyRecommend
Read...One of my favorite ways to help people conceptualize patriarchy is by asking them to imagine a Chuck E. Cheese.
Read...The other night, I was eating capellini with asparagus and shrimp with a new friend/Babecamp Jamaica alum.
Read...I already feel super visible because I’m a fat woman wearing neon most likely, which I’ll admit I’m kinda into. But add a dude to the equation and all of a sudden I feel like people’s eyeballs are a moon orbiting the planet on which our initial fumbling exchanges are taking place. High pressure.
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