Today we have another installment in a series of Q&As tackling issues like how to feed your kids, combat diet culture in schools and family life, and navigate fatphobia (your own and other people’s).
NOTE: This post talks about the …
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Today we have another installment in a series of Q&As tackling issues like how to feed your kids, combat diet culture in schools and family life, and navigate fatphobia (your own and other people’s).
NOTE: This post talks about the …
I’m writing this newsletter on a day like so many other days in this pandemic: We don’t have childcare (in this case due to President’s Day, not Covid, and I have never felt more resentful of a made-up, patriarchal holiday). …
This is the first of a series of Q&As I’m adding to this newsletter, tackling issues like how to feed your kids, combat diet culture in schools and family life, and navigate fatphobia (your own and other people’s).
Q: What …
Some exciting news: I have a new book to tell you about! Or, to be more precise, I have a new book deal and an outline and a giant stack of research to get me started. About 18 months from …
In my world, January is usually time to suit up. It’s when diet culture comes at us fast and furious: my inbox is brimming with diet industry press releases, my DMs with people feeling overwhelmed by the New Year, New …
One of the weirdest things about our new remote school world has got to be how it forces parents to overhear the stray comments and awkward moments that would normally go entirely unreported in our child’s school day. This can …
Last September, I got on a plane (remember planes!) and flew down to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to visit Mosaic Comprehensive Care, an internal medicine practice run by Louise Metz, MD. Dr. Metz is white, thin, and was educated …
If you spend any amount of time writing and thinking about kids’ relationship with food and their bodies, a tip you’ll run into early and often is to serve meals “family style.” This means you stop pre-plating your kids’ meals …
For years, whenever anyone asked me for advice on starting a freelance writing career, I said “invest every dime you can in childcare so you can protect your work time.” When I wrote the acknowledgements to The Eating Instinct, …
The summer I was 16, I went to a creative writing camp at a former women’s college with a lot of early 90s feminists and theater kids. (Everybody wore Doc Martens and flannel, even in 90 degree heat, and/or really …
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