All Hail the Fathletes
Covered in sweat, arms overflowing with costumes and shoes, sick with a cold, and feeling, as always, that I could have danced better in the competition, I headed from the ballroom to the elevator with...
View ArticleDo You Need to Eat That?
Ah, the holidays. Time to give thanks, celebrate, and deal with three solid months of diet ads, articles, and tips “you’ve never heard before” (which you’ve totally heard before.) Like: eat a bowl of...
View ArticleWorld Watch May 10, 2014
Our Digest of Global Feminist News and Opinion Lead Story A survivor of the kidnappings in northern Nigerian villages of Warabe and Wala, who prefers not be identified by name or photograph, details...
View ArticleI Deserve to be Healthy: A Feminist Case for Quitting Smoking
Backstory So a couple of years ago, my wife, Nikki, and I are at a party where we encounter a few friends we haven’t seen in a while. Conversation gets around to how we’d just run the Prague marathon,...
View ArticleWorld Watch May 27, 2014
Our Digest of Global Feminist News and Opinion Top Story In order to begin breeching global women’s oppression, more than making martyrs out of schoolgirls needs to be done. Amidst a western media...
View ArticleBad Romance: Getting Over Your Messy Break Up with Exercise
I travel around the country giving talks about body positivity, size acceptance, and Health at Every Size. In many of my talks, either in my introduction or during the talk, the fact that I am and have...
View ArticleMy Secret Fitness Life
Here’s my big secret: I work out five days a week. Not that shocking, right? Are you waiting for me to get to the scandalous part, like where I steal priceless works of art so I can bench-press them?...
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